One of the Four Kings, The Voice of Change is the person responsible for Ragnarok. Despite most information about her having been made unavailable to the public, the story about El 'Maria' Fran - so her true name - is well known amongst the magic community. After all, even if the Four Kings themselves have complete control over who becomes their successor, being a simple village girl didn't help her creditability at all.

As far as her combat powers go she is, as expected, a force to be reckoned with. Even unknown to be an Einherjar or not, The Voice of Change is known to use her voice as a weapon. Apart from employing a wide variety of Runemagic, given live through her voice alone, she is also able to speak a language long lost. A language capable of Miracles.

In her free-time The Voice of Change works as a priestess.
Some say the language she knows is the language humanity once spoke before the fall of Babel, other say it's the language of the devil.

For those who recognize this man, Lucius David Rosenstolz is the top candidate of the Rosenstolz household, a famous family mostly consisting of Einherjar who have gigantic assets. Despite Lucius fame, most of his combat abilities are a well-guarded secret, but it's a well known fact he is more of a classical mage.

The name being sort of a urban-myth, the Alvensleben family shows no records of any great historical deeds or similar. In fact, one might argue it is hard to find any member still alive. Mercurius however, is infamous for being involved in various not-too-legal cases of the Magic Community. That, however, are all rumours.

~Karen~

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Name: Karen W. H.
Age: 20

Personality:
A quiet girl who usually tries to keep to herself and under any circumstances, refuses to talk about her family. This odd behavior is not out of fear or disgust but more out of embarrassment. Considering her mother’s “eccentric” nature and her father’s “bold” personality, she’d much rather not be reminded of how much she resembles them. But aside from that, she’s quite easy-going and will speak up if she needs to.

History:
The most Karen will say about her lineage is that she was born from the union of a great hero and a repulsive witch. Or something like that; she won’t go into details purely out of embarrassment of being compared to the two of them. In any case, she learned most of her magic skills from her mother while her father taught her gunplay. When she became of age to set out and make a name for herself, she heard of the rituals of Ragnarok being held in the land of New Sealand. Having only been aware of these rituals from the magical community as well as recountings from her mother, the youth decided to participate in order to prove a name for herself. At least, that’s the story she tells everyone. In truth, her actions would suggest that she’s fighting in search of a certain someone though this is mere speculation. If she is searching for someone, it’s difficult to say who it would be or why she would be so determined to find them.

Magic:
Karen’s Rune Magic relies on traps and set-ups to catch opponents off guard. By placing down runic seals, whoever comes into contact with them will be bombarded with a myriad of wires that will incapacitate them. Karen can utilize these traps in a variety of ways though the core component will always consist of her wires. Sometimes the wires will constrict, other times they will sharpen themselves and pierce the foe in a circle of death; it really depends on Karen's mood and objective.

Yggdrasil Seed:
Karen’s Yggdrasil Seed takes the form of gloves and metallic fingertips with wire threads running through them. As such, the weapon can be used in various ways to attack, defend against, or immobilize opponents. The majority of the wire is held in a larger than normal spool at the back of the waist underneath her jacket. Furthermore, she also possesses two flintlock revolvers that act as heels to her boots, bound to the shoe using these very wires. Although nothing more than conventional weaponry, Karen is able to manipulate her wires to pull the trigger and fire the guns if need be. No doubt an excessive, yet deadly fashion statement.

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Sera Arrior

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Name: Serra Arrior
Age: 19

Personality:
Sera is a strange girl if nothing else. During her particularly sheltered upbringing Sera spent most of her time reading books and imagining stories about the what the world outside would be like which leaves her at a rather strange juxtaposition; she is very intelligent, but she knows very little about the world or the struggles that people face. Instead, everything is layered under a seeming layer of childlike innocence and occasionally just downright ignorance. Being the prodigy of the Arrior family also left Sera with somewhat of a superiority complex and a strong obligation to her duty. She knows that she and what she has to accomplish are incredibly important and is often caught making decisions around what is best for her and her own goals. Although she is never deliberately cruel, she certainly takes an ends justify the means approach.

A product of her environment and the conditions she was raised in Sera is fiercely independent, pugnacious and fierce but also hot-headed and stubborn. Her tough exterior comes with a strong sense of justice and loyalty to those who have shown her kindness. Unfortunately, this also means that Sera is often prone to making rash and reckless decisions, starting fights, and generally pretty impulsive behavior – especially if she finds herself in a tense or heated situation. Sera also has a very hard time hiding her true feelings and is often too honest with those around her occasionally causing upset or awkward situations. Despite the fact she can be so troublesome her intentions are usually pure of heart and she does truly true to make friends.

Growing up around magic left Sera in awe of all the powers that it bestows upon those that wield it and she genuinely believes magic is the best thing that could ever happen to a person. So much so that she is often irritated by people who misuse magic or aren’t appreciative of their gifts. This one-sided attitude prevents Sera from seeing other people’s point of view about the negative consequences of magic or how it has caused them suffering.

History:
The Arrior family of mages has been one of the longest living clans in magician records. They are also one of the largest and most well-respected houses among the magic community as well. Many powerful mages have come from the Arrior family and their powerful magic has always done well to impress. Initially working alongside fellow magical families, when the bad blood between the mages started eons ago, they began to slowly siphon secrets from the other houses by sending in spies and other nasty trickery. Although the Arrior had a lot of completion back in the day they were successful at eradicating some of their biggest competitors and this eventually led to the famous Arrior Archives, essentially just an official name for what is a huge library of all sorts of magical scriptures, books, scrolls or nearly any piece of information about magic you could want. With dedicated students spending all of their time reading and studying it allowed them to be the forefront in the magical world and despite its success Arrior upheld all the vows of any ideal mage family; maintaining a consistently favorable position in the magic community.

Unfortunately for Arrior, Runemagic was invented and the tables began to equalize. Magicians no longer needed to be exceptionally gifted students or have overwhelming magical potential and talent to access the true powers gifted by magic anymore. As time went on and Runemagic became more successful and powerful the Arrior family lost its previous claim to fame - despite still producing strong and capable mages the gap was now much more fillable by other families and several other great powers rose up. As time passed into the current modern ages the Arrior family maintained its favorable standing in the magic society, but generations of greed and resentment festered.

Sera was born along with five other children her age, the next generation of Arrior, but unlike the other children her age, Sera showed incredible latent mana and magic potential from very early on. It didn’t take long for her family to decide that she was the prodigy they had been waiting for – with Ragnarok not too far away they had time to mold the young girl into the champion that they needed for victory. Then when they had the power of the wish the world would soon remember the Arrior family and magecraft for what it was.

Sera herself was locked away and started studying. All of the information found within the Arrior Archives was useful, but it mostly worked with Sera’s imagination for her to paint the world she never got to see. She often wondered what was out there, when she would get to go on the adventures that many of the mages in the records she read about went on. Trained in the most powerful forms of magic that her clan had on record it wasn’t long before Sera was a force of a mage; considerably stronger than her peers. But, despite possessing a lot of raw power Sera lacks restraint.

When she turned 19 she was finally granted some freedom since her mentors were certain that she had mastered more or less everything they had to teach her. The rest had to come from her own studies and experience. Now set loose on New Sealand, Sera is finally ready to start seeing the world and making some friends. All she has to do first is with Ragnarok. It can’t be that hard? Right?

Magic:
Sera utilizes magic which allows her to convert her mana into a physical energy. The Arrior magic which is incredibly versatile and each mage wields it differently. For the most part, Sera uses her magic offensively. With the runes tattooed up and down her arms, legs, back and naval she is able to convert her mana into this energy and manifest it into a physical form. This can be in the form of powerful blasts, energy beams or weapon constructs made of energy. The possibilities are exponential. Sera wields her magic mostly as an extension of her body; firing out energy blasts to accompany her punches, wielding a sword made of this powerful energy or firing a volley of spears at her opponents.

Another application of the Arrior magic is utilizing this energy to heal and revitalize. Although Sera is a studied healer, by her own admission, she has a way to go in this field yet. She is able to use her energy to heal in a similar manner to that in which many holy men heal with their own magic, however, Sera is a slower healer and requires more time and concentration in comparison. The big advantage of Sera’s healing abilities is that she is able to use them to help guide the inner energy of her patient. This allows her to guide the healing process, as well as undo some of the negative effects of magic on the body and other helpful things.



Yggdrasil Seed:
The Yggdrasil Seed passed down in the Arrior family between the most powerful mage of generation to the next has always been a defensive ability in nature - although it differs between each person, Sera was given the seed and the abilities of an Einherjar as the most powerful mage of her generation. The seed itself manifests in Sera's strong personal sense of justice and provides her with an extremely powerful shield with which she can protect her ideals. The large shield is an extremely powerful magically enhanced barrier which is virtually impenetrable when it is at full power. The shield is large enough that once it has materialized it could cover a good group of people if necessary. The Yggdrasil Seed's main weakness is that it draws its power from Sera's sense of justice and belief that what she is doing is right. When this belief is high then the Yggdrasil Seed is incredibly powerful, but it dwindles in power in tandem with Sera's belief. Should she not believe that what she is doing at the given time is not at all righteous or morally correct then she is unable to summon the shield at all.

Notes:

• Despite her tough attitude and age Sera is afraid of the dark.
• The runic tattoos on her naval are mostly for cosmetic purposes as opposed to practical ones
• Sera loves to read, and has spent most of her life reading, but since she is such a fast reader she often races through books and then is upset that it is over to the point of occasional tears.

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Anton Soklovo

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Name: Anton Skolkovo
Age: 34

Personality:
Anton is whoever he needs to be when the situation calls for it, he could be the smart person in the room to the kind neighbor next door or the cute guy in the bar you're sitting next to. Having a malleable personality that makes him simply unrecognizable when switching social circles, he really got the poker face down as he switches scene from scene. Easily adapting to whatever scenario that he is put into, he is comfortable with doing anything once before deciding whether or not he would want to do it again. Having a slight addiction for seeking adrenaline and could be labeled as a thrill seeker for his daring nature sometimes when he shows it. Sometimes, however, a nice and slow perspective of the world is also nice during a clear night to watch the stars or walk around at night to enjoy the change of atmosphere.

History:
The Skolkovo family is a small but infamous family of around 30 people in the magical community for completely ignoring the degradation of magic and embraced the future with involving the modern world into their magic. With them being a very old family which its reputation has been lost but has its ties to the legendary Rune Sage of legends, they are a force that is intimidating and respected enough to dissuade most actions against them. In terms of sheer theoretical magic theory, they are perhaps the best at it with what they do with despite their ways and when they put churn those ideas into reality, it's frightening what they can do. However, in today's time period, the Skolkovo family is in a relative neutral ground with every family if you ignore the bad blood with their modern ways, with few allies which could be barely called that as they more likely owe the small family a favor. Their ties are more with the modern world where they get their resources and a variety of other things from the obvious people that don't know anything. It could be said that its good to have a family dedicated to watching the humans in case anything suspicious attention be drawn toward the magical community, however, like everything, it's up for debate. Their one accepted thing about the Skolkovo family is that they do anything to further the advancement of magic in anyway whether it conflicts with their roots or not.

Anton with his family is the fourth in line to succeed and it won't be anytime soon that he will be the head of the family business but still doing anything will help support them. With his eldest sister at the head with his parents and siblings monitoring with a supportive gaze behind her, she leads the company with her hands and the guidance of previous handlers. His family as a business is highly successful considering it is just a small project on the side but it was just a means to provide some of the funding for the family. With his childhood like most of any normal children of his day and age with the obvious exception of magic as a subject that was passionately taught to him and eventually passed down to Anton. Along with these subjects, the subject of coding also came into play with Anton and like every family member before him, he too learned how to write in the language of computers which its skills would apply to magic. An equal comparison between the two, rune magic and coding were very similar in the fact of the fine detail needed to perform both for the smoothest and best application of them. Their rune magic was meticulously worked on and their precision with inhumanly accurate and efficient, gathering them an infamous name of being the best magicians for creating intimidating pieces of magic.

After his teenage years, he was allowed some leeway as he began to travel the world on his own expense and make some connections for himself and the family business. Being relatively successful businessman for the small company and continued to do so which increased how luxurious his life could become, of course with some moderation as well. Retaining a good portion of his humbleness, he soon stopped working and continued to get an education and obtained his bachelor in science and master in computer science. After graduating, Anton went back to live with the family for a little bit and enjoyed life with everyone really before moving out once more. Freelancing with his skills, he made quite the living for a single person income and did this comfortably for a few years along with the occasional business trip to rake in more assets for the company.

Upon hearing that the rituals of Ragnarok was beginning once more, it was a chance that should be taken to promote the Skolkovo family so that their position will be cemented and never be taken down. Of course, he wouldn't let anyone know who he was, for if they did then the resentment would soon come after. But perhaps that's just an excuse to seek something more of his life, a gigantic dose of memories to be had if he should win and not to mention the excitement or thrill along the way. But, perhaps that's a tad optimistic which in either way, he's going to be in it to win it!

Magic:
Anton's magic in general, is like art itself, it could be elegant and soft or assertive and powerful depending on what needs to be done. With the family specialty, he is gifted with the weaving of barriers that have various effects depending on what is written on the runes. However, the true power of the Skolkovo family's power is to do the opposite of everyone in the magic community in which instead of fighting against reality, why not take the path of least resistance and go along with it? Taking advantage of their education they are capable of doing things neither side could do by itself and combine the two to a potent force. By working science and magic together, the only limit to Anton and in extension the Skolkovo family have with magic is their lack of knowledge.

Of course, though, the runes for any of these advanced techniques are long at best and are literally paragraphs of runes despite the ways working around a large majority of faults in them. Anton's runes represent the weakness of themselves, they require time to prepare and the longer it becomes depending on how advance you want them to be. Runes upon runes to increase efficiency, to hold stability and form, along with to fortify the strength of it as well the Skolkovo's form of rune magic while indeed potent are designed to be supported by more than just one person. Making them taxing depending on the complexity of the spell that is trying to be cast by Anton if just focusing on pure magic. Combining simple commands to build upon each other, it creates the end product of spells easier if it follows the laws of science but when you decided to get magical, it's best to let the magic part take over. Overall, the big aces of magic will be kept in his sleeves while the parlor tricks with science and magic will be his main course.



Yggdrasil Seed:
Anton's Yggdrasil Seed takes the form of his eyes, as upon consumption and then acceptation of him as a suitable host for the seed, it underwent additional transformation on him. Rewiring and altering his eyes to make him technically blind, at least to this world while in exchange allowing him to see in a different perspective to say the least. Allowing himself to see in multiple layers, the living which consisted of mana and ether while the dead with Vim causing the world that he sees to be quite bleak and gloomy. Sometimes its quite unnerving when his vision blurs as something from beyond whispered into his ears. These voices speak almost inaudibly like a gentle gust of wind that is almost unnoticed when it moves unless you pay attention.


Notes:

He has two tattoos which are simple runes that surround his arm like a band, they both consume more mana they more he wants to move

• The first rune is one to gather water, whether it be in the air or elsewhere
• The second rune is one to move heat from surrounding objects

The third tattoo on his other arm is like a scripture for a single tattoo, a old piece of magic from the family thats surprisingly useful

• The third rune on his arm allows him to compress/crush the space that he is focusing on but even a rolling object or walking object renders this useless as it cannot retarget without canceling it entirely. Upon casting, it takes on gradual strength and grows as it focuses on one point consuming more mana with the strength being used.

Name: Flyta Einhard

Age: 19

Personality: On first glance, Flyta is the archetypal instance of a shy, tsundere sort of girl. She generally stays out of the way of others and enjoys keeping to herself. If joked with or teased by another, she is prone to blushing furiously and proclaiming that she will murder the other party, as is wont for tsunderes to do.

The difference is that she will actually murder the other party, usually in three to five business days, depending on her schedule.

Flyta is self-centered, but her self-centeredness has reached a point that it is nearly impossible for her to properly communicate with others. Rather than lauding her nature about for all to see, she takes to avoiding human contact as much as possible. It isn't that she sees herself as superior to others, but rather that she doesn't see why she should bother with others, and as a result has become incapable of bothering with others even if she tried.

Consequently, her moral compass is skewed in an almost sociopathic manner. While she has a sense of normative right and wrong, it is based with her opinions as the standard, rather than any sort of standard or communal moral system. "That person made fun of me, so I killed him. I even told him I was going to do it, so he had time to prepare. If I'd made fun of him, he'd be okay to kill me, but I didn't because I'm not rude like that." In this way, her internal narrative remains perfectly self-consistent.

Enjoys cute things but refuses to outwardly express her love of them. It ordinarily takes at least seven business days to kill someone if they are cute.

Weak against potato chips.

Brief History: The Einhards are a powerful clan that, while not at the same level of age as many others, prides itself on its resources and pseudo-political clout. Flyta was born to one of the many secondary branches of the clan, and as was customary, was taught in the art of magic.

While her upbringing was relatively standard for one in her position, Flyta's parents innately viewed her as something above the common magic-user for how well she took to magic in spite of her subpar bloodline. As such, she became a princess locked in a castle for the entirety of her formative years, which stunted her social growth irreparably. Leave it to the homeschooled kid to be a sociopath, right? Regardless, by the time she came of age, Flyta had managed to become one of the more renowned mages in the junior generation of the clan, though still well below main clan members.

...actually, as one would imagine, a branch member like Flyta was never intended to be sent to Ragnarok. In truth, the honor was to go to a member of the main clan, who had been trained for that purpose and who a Yggdrasil Seed had been procured for. In an act of circumstance and chance, Flyta was requested to take the Yggdrasil Seed from the clan treasury to said person for the "official crowning" of their representative, or some such thing, shortly before he would be sent off.

She decided to eat it while walking over instead, and was inexplicably able to survive the process.

The entire clan was infuriated at the news, as they lacked the time to obtain a new Yggdrasil Seed before Ragnarok would begin, and killing her as punishment would be a waste, as then the clan would have nobody capable of competing in Ragnarok. Sighing in resignation, they sent Flyta to the ritual as a sort of sacrificial pawn; maybe a miracle would happen and she'd somehow win. They'd probably forgive her for the whole "ruining everything" deal if that happened.

Magic:

Consumption: A magic that raises the costs needed for processes, phenomena, and the like; an example could be increasing the energy cost needed to run from point A to point B, meaning that one will become fatigued faster. In other words, it is a program that inserts a new modifier into existing lines of code, to make their execution more costly. Through use of the rune, this can either be used to affect a single "target", or a rune can be used to raise a boundary field in which the effect is realized.
Strictly speaking, it's possible to use the single target effect on something other than what the rune was carved on, but in this case the chance of success falls dramatically, so fields are generally more effective.
Rather than imposing a will for something to stop on extrinsic existences, this is a magic that makes circumstances such that extrinsic existences have no choice but to stop. It is not that the process is forced to cease, it is that the process is made unable to begin or continue.

Field Creation: Creation of a mobile or stationary field to allow for specific magical effects. This can be seen as Flyta's secondary focus, outside of Consumption. Generally used in conjunction with Consumption, though fields that allow for detection/alarm systems and "unnoticeability" are also possible. Obviously, there are flaws with a field that makes something within it unnoticeable, but that should go without saying. It is good to know that while the field's effects cannot be altered after it is made, the creator can "greenlist" certain existences to be exempt from its effects.

Yggdrasil Seed- "Thousand Mouths: Cipactli".
After consuming her Yggdrasil Seed, Flyta acquired the ability to consume anything. All areas of her body's exterior are treated as mouths, or in other words "entrances to the body's interior", that can be opened and closed at will (though there is no physical marking to indicate such), though the Mana cost of holding multiple mouths open rises with the number of mouths. Anything that contacts an open mouth is automatically "sucked" into the interior of the body. This can be halted/prevented if necessary to lower Mana cost, but that is the default state. However, in the case of Einherjar, as this power itself originates from an Yggdrasil Seed, this pulling effect is not usable against their bodies. At the same time, this does not make them immune to being consumed, but simply means that they cannot be immediately/fully pulled in upon contact. Further, while this is usable against effects born of another Yggdrasil Seed, using the pulling effect on such things is notably more draining than it is in the case of other existences.
This would of course be a useless, suicidal ability were it not for the second half. She has ceased to have such things as organs or vitals; the Yggdrasil Seed having eroded away at the common sense of her human body. Rather, the interior is now a pocket space of immense capacity that compresses, stores, and breaks apart anything that enters it. At default, physical objects will be stored in their compressed state for later use, while forms of energy or nonphysical phenomena will be converted into Mana. This process of conversion is of course, more lengthy if the substance has a low density of Mana.
These are merely defaults, however, and both physical and nonphysical things can be converted into other forms of energy if willed. Alternatively, consumed things can be "used up" in order to heal injuries or to increase physical output by an amount proportional to the energy stored in the devoured existence. Obviously, physical things that haven't been devoured in such a manner can be "spit out" as desired.

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Personality: Warm and vivacious, Naoko Bushiro is a twenty-year old woman who likes to care for flowers and thinks that water is just as delicious as pop if you work hard before drinking it. Though she sometimes gets moody if things get too difficult, she’s a reliable individual who always manages to grin and bear it before she stumbles and crumbles. After all, she’s young, she’s got a job, and there’s no way in hell she’s going to let something like a battle to the death between mages stop her from fulfilling her dream of travelling all around the world. For Naoko, it isn’t a battle to grant her wish. It’s a battle to stay alive until she can give up.

Brief History: The Bushiro family didn’t really want to get involved to begin with. Ragnarok was too heavy of a weight to put on a clan of mages as insignificant as themselves, after all. But, regardless of whether or not the family wanted to, the talent that Naoko had as a magician couldn’t be ignored. As a precocious child, she had mastered the basics by the time she was seven years old, and when she was ten, her skills caught the eyes of a more influential clan within Japan. They were having difficulty finding a suitable heir, and once the existence of an insignificant family with a significant daughter was made known, Naoko found herself engaged to their son by the age of 13.

That sorta sucked. As a matter of fact, she really didn’t like that. She didn’t like that so much that, while puberty was still making her do stupid things, a particularly melodramatic Naoko made the painfully retarded decision of finding a foggy old Einherjar, asking him for his Seed, and then eating that thing at his deathbed. Death or freedom, that’s what Naoko thought.

Turned out she just got lucky, and didn’t just die horrifically. Also turned out that she became superhuman. And, as a result, she could just tell all of them to fuck off, because Naoko could live her own life now, being the physically overpowering, near-immortal existence she was. She graduated from high school with flying colors, got an internship at some foreign place, and soon, Naoko was on the highway to a successful, international life.

Then she got drunk one night and found out the next morning that she signed a magical contract to fight for a certain family during Ragnarok, which just so happened to be occurring in the town she lived in.

And it also turned out that the company she got an internship from didn’t actually exist.

Fuck.

Magic: For Naoko, the basics are the best…and are also the only ones she really learned, because after becoming an Einherjar, she sorta didn’t care any more about magical training. After all, she didn’t die even if a truck hit her, and she could run faster than Usain Bolt, so really, there was no REAL point in learning super fancy spells. For that reason, this silver-haired girl just wears a ring, with dozens of simple spells inscribed on the inside. That silver ring is her spellbook, containing magic arrows, barriers, physical enhancement, and her personal favorite, FIRE BOLTUUU.

Yggdrasil Seed: Naoko’s Yggdrasil Seed manifested itself in a literally unbreakable cane that can be used both for whacking baddies in the head and for looking fashionable in the bloody British place that is New Sealand. Simple is best, after all.

"Call me Whirlwind. ...but that's just a nickname."

Name: Whirlwind

"Hey, I'm not that old, you know."

Age: 35

Height: 6'4"

"Haha, I am who I am, I guess."

Personality:

Whirlwind is a laid-back, and well mannered man. He treats other well and respectfully. He is not intimidated by titles or social standing. He wears an almost ever-present smile, and it comes with unfailing good humor. But, beneath the good-natured exterior, lies a calculating, driven mind. He won't hesitate to do whatever he needs to to accomplish his goals.

"My past? Nothing special, really. Everyone has run into heartache and pain. That is part of living. It is how we grow and learn, and it is what makes us appreciate what we have."

Brief History:

Whirlwind was born to a then powerful, wealthy, and influential family of mages, under the name Marcus Alexander Solidor. He was the eldest of many siblings, his father remarried three times but each wife died of various causes. Growing up...his life was surprisingly normal, aside from the magic and the supernatural. He went to school, made mistakes, had a few crushes, ect. It was a happy life, and some of the best years of his life.

His nickname "Whirlwind" is both a misnomer and perfectly accurate. When he was a kid, he would love to run everywhere, and he would often make a mess doing so, causing his father to declare that he would come through like a tornado. That comment gave rise to the nickname. As he grew up, he became much more mild, and laidback, making the name ironic, and something of a joke.

It was in his late teens that everything fell apart. For several years, the once great House Solidor had slowly slid into decline. They were nearly bankrupt, their allies had abandoned them, and they were out of options. During this time, Whirlwind's father had gone deeper and deeper into his research, soon becoming obsessed. He began to rave about "the answer", and mutter dark things to himself. He was convinced that their loss in fortune was the god's doing, and that they were using other mage clans as tools. He started delving into forbidden research, breaking nearly every rule set in place by mages, lusting after power for revenge. To that end, he started sacrificing his children in black rituals, and even forced Whirlwind to consume a Yggdrasil seed.

Eventually, Whirlwind couldn't take it anymore, and he used certain contacts to inform the mage's autorities what his father was up to. His father found out, and confronted him, they argued. The argument grew more and more heated, then
his father tried to kill him. Hurtmand afraid, the the young Whirlwind flead, discarding his name and severing his his ties.

His father was soon catured, and executed. The but then name of House Solidor had been blighted forever.

Since then, Whirlwind became an independent, making work where and how he can. Since them, he has done well for himself, in magical rearch and financially. He even married, and had a daughter of his own.

Sadly, both his wife and daughter died. The circumstances around their deaths are as mysterious, as they are suspicious. However, Whirlwind refuses to talk about them to anyone.

As the time for Ragnarok came around, Whirlwind heard about it, and devised a plan. Over several years, he built up the ruins his mage clans, and entered Ragnarok, representing House Solidor.

His objective remain a mystery, but it is one he is willing to kill to acheve...

Magic:

Whirlwind has achieved great proficiency with runes, his innate talent refined over a lifetime of practice and learning. He is able to carve and activate many kinds of powerful runes.

The main way he eploys them is on small, square tiles, like Scrabble pieces, he keeps. The tiles are of widely diffent materials and each have a magic Rune carved on them. Their effects very greatly, from blasts of fire, to opening locks, or even healing. A simple force of will from Whirlwind is enough to active one, but they have one use only. After that, the tile shatters, and is rendered useless. Given time, he can make more.

Yggdrasil Seed:

Will of Creation: The seed's power allow Whirlwind to create solid constructs out of mana. What he creates is limited only by his imagination. The constructs can be animate, having a limited intelligence and able to follow simple commands, or inanimate. However, there are a few rules, the more mass of a construct the more mana and time it will take to make. Similarly, the more complex it is, the more mana and time it will take to create it. The constructs he makes are temporary, how long they last depends on how much mana he infused them with. Until they expire, the constructs have the normal properties of whatever they are made out of, and can be broken or shattered like normal. Animate constructs fuction similarly to living things, hit something vital, or do enough damage, and it will die.

"I want to create a ideal world, a world where our children, and grandchildren can live in peace, and prosperity. A world where tears are not shead, and people need not die.

At least, that was what I wished.

I know now that such a world is an impossibility. Time has seen to teaching me that lesson, over and over again.

But even so, I will, with my own two hands, create a better world. Even if perfection is a dream, improvement is not.

While that is my ultimate goal, it is not my current one.

To know the proper course, one must have the proper knowledge and most important of all, time..."

Other:

He runs on coffee.
His hobbies include running and playing guitar.
He carries a handgun on him, because who expects a mage to carry around a gun?!
He has trained in self-defence martial arts from a young age.
He recently has had training in marksmanship, and swordsmanship.
Unlike most mages, he embraces modern technology.

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