[hider=It's Just A Prank Bro (Master)] [center][h1][b][color=014E2E]Rhodri Bowen[/color][/b][/h1] [img]https://i.imgur.com/6Axaw5O.png[/img][/center] [b][color=014E2E]Name[/color][/b]: Rhodri Bowen ap Bleddyn [b][color=014E2E]Titles[/color][/b]: "The Grudge Bearer" (a family title) [b][color=014E2E]Gender[/color][/b]: Male [b][color=014E2E]Age[/color][/b]: 24 [b][color=014E2E]Alignment[/color][/b]: Chaotic Neutral [b][color=014E2E]Affiliation[/color][/b]: Valualeta/Democratic Faction [b][color=014E2E]Clock Tower Rank[/color][/b]: Fes [b][color=014E2E]Command Spell[/color][/b]: It generally takes on the shape of a dagger, and is splint into three distinctive sections for the blade, crosspiece, and hilt/pommel. [center][h3][b][color=014E2E]Background[/color][/b][/h3][/center] Rhodri was born the scion and heir of the Bowen, a Welsh family of magi who have cultivated their own path to the Root: The purification of humanity. To withdraw and accrue all the sin, and all of the grudges, from a human being in order to revert them to a ‘pure’ state (akin to when they were first emerging from the Root) that touches upon the Root itself and opens a pathway to it. Originating as ritual community sin-eaters in their day and age, they used this role to both remain isolated to the edges of their local community as well as to accrue grudges/sins as part of their magecraft. A bonus of this isolation would be ‘being left alone’ well enough by the mundane world. Remaining local yet still living a life as ‘outcasts’ living at the edge of their hometown, and having done so into modern times at that, they use this status even still to further their art into the current day and age. Growing up steeped in his family’s arts, however, Rhodri also found that to accrue grudges from others via modern technology was also a rather possible feat. While his father had been somewhat more keen to see the value of such things to a rather limited extent in his lifetime, however, it was Rhodri who managed to elevate the family craft to integrate these modern methods into the family craft and harness their latent and as-of-yet unused potential. Were his grandfather to see what he’s ‘become’, however, it is likely Rhodri’s ancestor would be rolling in his grave. Among his methods of ‘accruing grudges’, then, includes methods such as ‘internet trolling’, engineered spam or prank calls, and ‘just a little trolling irl’ if he needs to. However, by the time Rhodri’s ideas came to be appreciated by his father his parents had nearly went and produced a second child out of concern that the heir was ‘going to be unfit to be a magus’ despite his training and so forth. In reality, he furthered his family’s craft by a fair leap and turned out to be a rather intelligent and keen student with a deceptive exterior by many accounts. It is also of note that he would become a student sent to the Clock Tower as well in due time, where he took a class in the Department of Modern Magecraft Theory to help further his personal work on the family craft. Yet it would also be during this time that Rhodri’s father would be stricken by an unknown event during a subspecies war he went out and ‘observed’, thus placing him in a state of bad health. While alive and conscious, he was injured greatly but managed to protect ‘what was important’ and managed to make it home ‘mostly in one piece’. Still stuck in long-term recovery, but able to think and talk and direct things from his bed, Rhodri's father kept up the mundane side of things for the family at this stage and Rhodri was forced into the leadership role as a magus. Having cultivated a spot in the Democratic Faction while going there to learn, he had kept up his family's existing political alignments in the Clock Tower and likewise went about to set his family's work on a path to the future at the same time. However, at the same time he would suddenly take up participation in yet another subspecies Grail War of his own accord....all after a set of Command Seals appeared on his left hand one odd, rainy day. It was curious enough of a thing, and yet after some research into the matter Rhodri began preparation to travel to Switzerland without another word. What is it about this tiny town of Sion that drew in him so? Ah, perhaps that would need to remain a se-cret for now, hmm? After putting some plans in place for his travel there to participate, and locking up a personally-penned and updated compilation of his magecraft studies and research at the family estate, the Welshman would work out some initial lodging at Sion and hit the road without any more than a casual wave behind him as he walked out of his family's home. What will the war in Sion bring? What does he desire for the Grail? Ah, only time will tell in reality. [center][h3][b][color=014E2E]Personality[/color][/b][/h3][/center] A man with a laid-back attitude and casual manner who enjoys 'living life', and one who enjoys video games and browsing the internet and whose well-versed knowledge of modern culture and technologies makes him seem like just a 'modern guy' for the most part. A person who enjoys prodding with jokes, usually puns, at times and seems to be of the friendly and amicable sort of figure up front and on the surface. The sort of guy who introduces himself to you, offers to get you a snack if you look hungry, and then proves to be pretty relaxed when hanging out with him if one is a friend or neutral party to him. At the same time, he is also tech-savvy 'bro' who will laugh at an enemy magus for their confusion in using it without a doubt, however, and is capable in his abilities to irk, earn the ire of, and 'piss off' others. He is a relentless internet troll who as a magus accrues great quantities of grudges/curses for magecraft with ease in this manner in the modern age, and someone who has worked hard to learn how to 'get people angry' and 'stir up the pot' either tactically or in a more chaotic manner alike. While to the naked eye of many magi he's "an annoying idiot", underneath he's a magus with a serious dedication for his family's work and who has a rather keen mind apt and happy to learn and further things along. Even at the Clock Tower he proved to be a skilled and rather avidly superb student, as well as being such in his general education in life to boot, which is something many are surprised to learn about him if told about that. When it comes to the Holy Grail, however, his true motive seems to be somewhat concealed if not an enigma. For all those who know him know, he wants to snag the Nadelkiss Holy Grail and use it to turn 'the skin of all Aristocratic faction members permanently pink' or something just as silly and irritating. On the other hand, as a magus some who know him more deeply believe he might be seeking to further his family's work in a more expedited manner....or perhaps he is up to something else entirely. [center][h3][b][color=014E2E]Magecraft Information[/color][/b][/h3][/center] [b][color=014E2E]Elemental Affinity[/color][/b]: Fire, Earth [b][color=014E2E]Number of Magic Circuits[/color][/b]: B [b][color=014E2E]Quality of Magic Circuits[/color][/b]: B [b][color=014E2E]Magecraft[/color][/b]: [list] [*][i]General Magecraft[/i] - The basics, things like setting up a workshop, detecting magical energy, and contracting a familiar, etc. In terms of familiars, for Rhodri, these skills are also involved in the creation of families borrowing the appearance of “will-o’-the-wisps” as familiars as well as these familiars’ potential modification (general use as a familiar for scouting, use in protecting a location, use in misleading and misdirecting enemies, or even in creating more malicious ones imbued with grudges/curses). [*][i]Western Curse Magecraft[/i] - While certainly behind the practitioners of the East in terms of the cursing techniques of the west, his family for obvious reasons has cultivated a study and understanding of curses as part of their magecraft lexicon. He has the proper ability to apply/use countercurses, and like others in his line is highly adept at use of the “Evil Eye”, a simple but anciently-rooted means of cursing requiring only bad intentions/feelings aimed towards the targets and a nasty glare to cast it (causing misfortune and injury to targets as a result). He is also skilled in the use of verbal curses, as well as the use of curses engraved into parts of buildings and so forth to afflict others who dwell within, and scratching the initial of someone to be cursed on lead or slate and throwing it into a well, etc. [*][i]Grudge Magecraft[/i] - The true core art of the Bowen Family, it centers around the accruing, gathering, and the harnessing of grudges and ‘sins’ and making use of them. It combines the culturally-relevant practice from Wales such as sin-eating rites, and the widespread concept of a ‘scapegoat’ in the West, into a cultivated magecraft specialized at the ‘purification’ of others by the user taking the sins and grudges of others upon themselves. From here said grudges and sins can be harnessed by the user in turn, such as being used as fuel for strengthening Curse Magecraft. With this magecraft, the user is capable of accruing the grudges and sins of others through acts as simple as walking through a busy street or eating food in proximity to people. Even turning one’s hostility toward a user of this magecraft, giving them the ‘stink eye’ or a bad look, and so forth are able to be drawn upon by the user as a source of strength. One can also use this to perform other feats, such as combining it with sympathetic magecraft to "return turn grudges/curses and negative emotions directed at him 'back to the sender'". In the case of Rhodri, he also combines the use of this magecraft with others he has learned as per family tradition. For example, he combines this with Fire Magecraft to create things such as ‘fires powered by grudges, which keep burning even underwater, and likewise which curse others who come into contact with them’. Another example would be combining this magecraft with a bounded field to afflict intruders with a myriad of curses, or do something like trigger several grudge-infused sharp stones or a set of wraith-infused weapons to automatically attack/pursue an intruder. Even things like combining this with sympathetic magecraft to 'amplifying and reflecting grudges back on/against his attackers' are possible, etc. [*][i]Sympathetic Magecraft[/i] - An older form of primitive magic, ranging from practices such as the stereotypical 'voodoo doll' of modern pop culture, to pouring water on an altar as part of a sympathetic magic ritual to summon rainfall, to other forms of 'imitative magic' using objects and/or actions and things such as human hair or blood to exert influence over places and people alike. [*][i]Spiritual Evocation[/i] - A supporting magecraft in a general sense, which for the Bowen includes but isn’t limited to, matters such as imbuing objects with wraiths and creating a location that draws in wraith/grudges of the dead. Etc. [*][i]Elemental Magecraft (Fire)[/i] - Fire element magecraft. The generation and manipulation of fire. Flinging fireballs at enemies, conjuring great blazes, emitting jets or streams of flame, setting things on fire, conjuring fire as well as manipulating existing fire, and so forth. Also includes skills in scrying via the use of fire in this case. [*][i]Elemental Magecraft (Earth)[/i] - Earth element magecraft. Conjuring and flinging large boulders at people, pelting enemies with a hail of myriad sharp rocks, the physical manipulation of existing sources of earth, making defensive barriers of rock and stone (or some such earthen substance), etc. [/list] [b][color=014E2E]Magic Crest[/color][/b]: 350 years old, placed on his upper back, and taking on the shape of a rose flower from the top-down with an ornate design of petals that grows with each generation adding to it. [b][color=014E2E]Mystic Codes[/color][/b]: [list] [*][i]The Golden Gazer[/i] - A simple mystic code easily concealed within mundane society as a normal lighter, Rhodri most often uses it for purposes of fire scrying (‘scrying on the fly” as he calls it) via magecraft. He has become adept with its use and with using fire scrying in general as a supplementary skill. He can also infuse the mystic code with a limited fuel of ‘grudges’ in order to light a cursed fire somewhere with ease, though if he managed to get a grudge against someone he is looking for and infused it into the lighter while fire scrying….well, tracking down opponents could be made a bit easier in the present, perhaps, eh? [*][i]Magecraft-Altered Modern Smartphone[/i] - While it is a mundane item at heart, Rhodri uses modern phones as ‘vessels for accruing grudges’ for himself as well as to store an amount of them akin to a ‘reserve vessel’. Even if his current phone is ever broken or destroyed, though, it can just be replaced with another one that fills the same role with ease. [s]Though he did get some smartphone insurance to make sure he can afford another one on the regular at a lower cost, and bought a backup one for the war to boot, even if money isn’t really a problem for his family in the general sense due to their long-term business investments heading into current times.[/s] [*][i]The Grudgety Suitcase[/i] - What he calls a suitcase filled with minor mystic codes. Its contents consist of: A number of curse/grudge-infused knives possessed by wraiths/grudges, general ritualistic materials and tools for his magecraft, pre-cursed legal Swiss money/coins alike, several items useful as ‘backups’ to further ‘store curses/grudges for the user’ as additional ‘spare vessels’, and a set of unique mystic code eating implements that are themselves mystic codes that act like ‘receivers/catalysts for grudges and drawing in them into the food he is eating using said implements’ and which can be combined with his family magecraft to pull in grudges from a wide area over something as simple as eating. [*][i]Bwch Dihangol, aka: “Goatie the GOATED Dagger”[/i] - Despite his silly nickname for a mystic code that’s just a dagger with a goat head on the hilt, but as a mystic code it has been suffused with grudges throughout Rhodri’s life after he began training as a magus under his father. He has accrued and infused it with a fair deal of curses, and it is a tool he has been trained how to use practically as a weapon. The latest example of a rather old family tradition that dates back many generations for heirs and heads of the Bowen. It was designed to also be used to ‘scapegoat’ grudges/curses/sins as a ‘transferring tool’, meaning that if plunged into a living target it could be used to ‘overwhelm a target with grudges’ beyond simply the harm caused by being stabbed with a dagger. On that note, normally members of the Bowen are laden with stored-up grudges and know how to contain them within themselves as it is already, and Rhodri is no exception. [/list] [b][color=014E2E]Nonmagical Assets[/color][/b]: [list] [*]Normal Uncursed Swiss Money (plenty for the war’s duration) [*]Changes of Clothes (a reasonable amount the average middle-class person would bring on vacation) [*]Dagger/Knife Combat - Trained in professional dagger/knife combat, making him proficient in use of one of his mystic codes in an additional practical sense. He is noted as being fairly adept with such a weapon in terms of skill. [*]Brazilian Jiujitsu - A martial art he took classes in alongside the above skill, mostly in case he is attacked unarmed. He is fairly adept in this skill as well. [*]Travel Supplies - Mundane stuff like floss, toothpaste, etc, for a week’s trip to another county. [*]A backup mundane and fully functional smartphone - Just in case, altering it into a lower-grade mystic code is also a simple enough process for him. [*]General Internet/Modern Tech Savviness - An expert in this, including and especially with regards to 'trolling' and 'meme culture'. [*] [/list] [/hider]