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"It is funny what you can see from the shadows."

Name: Roy Merrick

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Age:15

Gender: Male

Race: Human
Sexuality: Bisexual

Year: Year 3

Ranking Class: Sorcerer 

Magic: Pythones: Summon Shadow-men: Roy can create "beings" out of shadow and spirits. They have mild sentience and are quite strong. Roy can control with his thought or his voice. They form out of the "mouth" of his book. Roy can use them to fight since they are fierce fighters and can disappear into the shadows, making them excellent scouts when Roy looks through their eyes. They seem to be able to speak to Roy. Currently he can form only two of the beings at a time. 

Strengths: Roy can hold his own in a physical fight. He was taught to only summon his minions when he had to. So he can punch and take punches with the best of them. He is out classed by people who use their magic to fight but most magicians have glass jaws. He is decent at climbing and likes physical things. He can multi-task like a pro since his magic requires him to focus on two separate creatures at the same time.   

Weaknesses: Light is the main one. Bright light negates most of his powers. However it has to be directly on him. The Shadow-men require orders from Roy since working on their own is a bit beyond them. Roy is still human so he has the same weaknesses a human would. The shadow-men are  physical since Roy has to use spirits to bind them. If they take too much damage, they can be destroyed. They smoke as if they are burning in direct sunlight but they can seemingly handle it. 

Catalyst:The Tome of Forbidden Conjuring is what he uses to channel his summoning. 

Inventory: The Tome, a cell phone,his wallet, and a dagger.

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Personality: Unlike many magicians like him, Roy is oddly cheerful. He is pleasant to be around and likes people. However he does not get many different references or social graces. He spent most of his childhood far away from the regular world so it is to be expected. He is usually polite and charming to all he meets. 

Backstory:

The wind begins our song with a slow sigh. We sing of the house in the graveyard. Do you see it? We do. We are always watching that mansion. We saw the Necromancer build his fortress in the middle of nowhere. He knew that his family were necromancers and there was no where safer for them than a graveyard. He created Locust Grove Manor as a sanctuary for his family. He knew he had to hide them from the world.

 Our story is not about him. No, our story takes place many years later. Our main character is a descendant of that necromancer. He is a child of no more than 8. We have trouble guessing the ages of the living. From a young age, the boy showed skill with the dead. At the age of four, he was talking to his grandmother. He did not know she had died ten years before he was born. She seemed real to him. From then on, he was trained by his family in the magics of death. His world seemed perfect. He learned the basics of the magic from his father.   Someday he would be the master of the estate. We knew that the child was destined for great things but we could tell that tragedy would hit the boy first. 

Then that fateful night happened. Some thing with a grudge came back to claim what it thought it was due from the family. It sent its minions to wipe out the family that had trapped it so many years ago. The boy was told to hide in a closet. He heard the screams and the yelling from his hiding spot. He stayed in the closet for what felt like days after the screaming stopped. He spent most of the time in that closet crying and thinking. He changed a bit that day. He smiled a bit less often. 

What he saw in the house would scar him for the rest of his days. Almost everyone was dead. Only a few of the family servants survived the assault by virtue of being below the monster and not worth its time. They took it upon themselves to raise the boy as a proper member of the family. They helped him summon one of us for the first time. We knew this one would go far at that school. We knew he would the moment that letter appeared at the doorstep.  His "family" wanted him to do this, so he left the only home that he had ever known. 

We do not know where the song ends but we know it will be interesting. We never did say the boy's name did we? He is Roy Merrick, the last magician of Locust Grove Manor.
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