[CHAR] Forwards Unto Dusk

[ravenDivinity]

Arcanist’s Name: Farrus Luminus Venten
Arcanist’s Title: Farrus, the Wind Caller
Gender: Male
Age: 17

Arcanist’s Magus: Air elementalist
Description of Magus:
Farrus can control the currents of air within a medium-sized area around him. This entails closing doors behind him with harsh gusts, breezing (pun intended) through books, pushing against people with wind, sweeping leaves, and controlling the flow of smoke (provided the smoke was already present). He cannot lift heavy objects but he may impede or manipulate their movement against a surface—pushing people back with the wind, as said before, or rolling a ball along the floor.
Amplifier:
Strong force winds make a lot of tasks much easier. With gale-force or tornado-force winds, he can achieve the lifting of heavy objects into the air and control a larger area. Farrus, using these high winds, can float easily.
Nuller:
Still air, unmoving and calm, makes it easier for fine manipulation of current and difficult maneuvering but harder to control heavy objects. Being completely winded or asphyxiated or suffocating strains his abilities to cruel minimums.

Description of appearance:
Farrus, before he turned 16, had dark brown hair, but after his 16th birthday, it began to turn gray prematurely in the same manner that his mother's hair changed early in her life. Coupled with fair skin and dim cobalt eyes, Venten looks almost fit to bear the title "Wind Caller." Farrus is rather short, at around five and a half feet, and the structure of his face is sharp and angular. He has an average but thin build. Normally he wears a brown tunic, fastened around his waist, over a long-sleeved tan shirt with open wrists and over baggy pants made of cow's leather.

A short biography:
Farrus was raised in a diligent family of average income, characteristic of neither the wealthy nor the poor but of the class of merchants. He came of age under the guidance of a compassionate mother of many talks and a pragmatic father of few words, parents who prioritized education in respected studies before any lower work, opulence, or relaxation. "School first, then you can do what you want," they always told him. Nestled in Anthora, one of the bustling cities in a hilly, elevated part of the Crepuscular Kingdoms, this son of a water elementalist mother and a fire elementalist came to honor his ancestors as their stunning amalgamation, for the water thrown on fire erupted in smoke, wafting against the air he now commands. He could fan the fire and move the waters.

So he dazzled his peers with his element. He took to scholarship and sciences early in his educational career, and he became an air elementalist of a unique kind. Farrus, however, went largely unnoticed until the winds of change smiled on him, and he, on a terribly windy and stormy day, slowed the fall of a suicidal man with his magus enough to catch him. Farrus still fell as he caught the man, of course, but the tale of the man's rescue made conversations for weeks before the uproar died down, and Farrus was noted in public memory as the "Wind Caller." While not wildly popular after the incident, his reputation gave him many opportunities for work and study in the city as he enriched his knowledge. The humble boy had new grounds to lift his family to new prosperity. Farrus had begun studying higher academic courses—the philosophies, the sciences, the language. Very rich in knowledge, he now also works closely with scholars and librarians, and regularly Farrus does small jobs for townspeople in the neighborhood.

Text Colour: A deep sea blue.

[HueNost]

My Archanist

Arcanist’s Name: Lumos Fawcett
Arcanist’s Title: The Optomancer
Gender: Male
Age: 24
Arcanist’s Magus: Luxomancy. More specifically, he's an Auroramancer
Description of Magus: He has the ability to bend environmental light, thus being able to create illusory effects. However, his lack of interest in the field of illusion makes this a weak skill. On the other hand, Lumos is a gifted physicist, and has learned how to use lenses to focus the light he controls, for different purposes. After many years of studying light and its behavior, he discovered that, theoretically, light can be transformed into usable energy, and therefore able to power mechanisms, although this is nothing more than a concept. He believes that, with the right technology, this discovery might be revolutionary.
Amplifier: The use of lenses and other mechanisms for different purposes helps him focus the energy his power provides.
Nuller: Without his lenses, and thanks to his lack of interest in other possible uses of his ability, his light-bending becomes nothing but a circus act.
Description of appearance: Lumos is a tall, Caucasian male. He's not particularly attractive, he has a wide nose, greenish brown eyes, short, dark hair and a few moles here and there. He's of thin complexion, but not necessarily a weakling. He's known to wear humble clothing. A threadbare white shirt, brown pants, and a pair of boots.
A short biography: Let's start with the beginning. His father is a renowned artisan, a Glassblower, from the Aurora Empire, and his mother, a Luxian Scholar. They met in one of the countless trade journeys of his father. They fell in love, and had a child. Both decided to live in Aurora, in order to avoid the hubbub of the Luxus Empire, but, eventually, she grew bored, and left both Lumos and his father to return to her native land. Lumos grew in Aurora, motherless, and learned the crafts of glassblowing. But soon enough, his mother's innate curiosity kicked in, and he started making questions about his mother's whereabouts. Being fifteen, he left his home in search of her, with his father's blessing and best wishes, of course.

He traveled, and learned about the land he crossed, the people he met and their cultures.

One day, he arrived to an inn, looking for a bed to spend the night. He found more than that. To his massive luck, his mother was there, discussing with other fellow scholars (and one or two bypassing drunks) when she immediately recognized Lumos' father's face in that young man's. She took him under her care, and taught him well. He soon earned his place within the scholar community.
Text Colour: This one seems pretty neat
Other bits and pieces: He has a puppy named Snuggles.

[Pumpkin Prince]

Arcanist’s Name: Lielle Trismegistus [Angra]
Arcanist’s Title: The Pale Mancer
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Arcanist’s Magus: [Vessel] Fire Elementalist
Description of Magus: Due to Angra’s destructive nature, the energy Lielle collects from the surrounding heat is generally manifested in an explosive fashion – Their power and controllability are in direct negative correlation; the explosions become stronger, but they also become much harder to control.
Amplifier: As a fire elementalist the heat of the area obviously factors into the strength of Lielle’s magic, but the true amplifier of her magic is her mood. Angra feeds off of negative, harsh emotions – Most specifically anger.
Nuller: Lielle’s magic is much weaker when Angra has less negative emotions to draw from; so when Lielle is feeling calm and content Angra has less to base their power from.
Description of appearance: Lielle is a tall, very thin figure with almost ghostly-pale skin (hence her name) and long jet-black hair – Though a strip of red runs over the hair that covers her right eye.
A short biography: Lielle had high expectations thrust on her shoulders from the moment she first opened her eyes. Her family was a long line of successful Arcanists, and it was very quickly expected that she’d do the same.
There was only one problem: She couldn’t do it. The science was way over her head. The information didn’t stick. She couldn’t make it happen for her. The pressure from her parents was mounting. She stopped leaving the house. Needed more time for study. Time spent eating could be spent studying. She had plenty of time for that later. Had to do it now. Had to make it happen.
It never did. Her fear turned into anger – Why wasn’t it working? She read the books inside and out, why couldn’t she put it all together? When her parents weren’t around she would scream until her voice was hoarse. This was too much.
“You seem angry.”
The voice had spoken to her one day, while she lay sobbing. She was confused at first, but eventually they explained themselves.
“I’m Angra, a Fire Elementalist. We demons were the original Arcanists. You’re angry, frustrated… I can use that. How about we cut a deal?”
It took Lielle a moment to piece it together – The original Arcanists were demons. Some people would cut deals with them, a quick way to power in exchange for becoming their vessel. Some saw it was a cheap trick, an easy way to get what some studied years for. But surely she had done as much – if not more – work than them, right? If she did this she could finally be considered part of the family. She wouldn’t be a failure anymore.
“Alright. What do I have to do?”

With Angra’s power, Lielle quickly became an Arcanist. She tried her best to keep it a secret, lest her parents find out she had essentially cheated her way into what they had worked so hard for. She still bore the marks of those worn out years – Her skin remained pale, and she could only speak in a small voice; along with this, becoming Angra’s vessel had coloured her right eye a light violet, hence why she covers it up with her hair. But she had finally done it. She was finally an Arcanist.
Text Colour: Red.
Other bits and pieces:

[Empath]

I can post, yes?

Arcanist’s Name: [Regere] Scarlet (a name she has received from the colour of her red hair). Her Surname is unknown even to Scarlet as her memories have long since faded of a time when it was known.
Arcanist’s Title: Arcanists being the highly regarded scientists they are, each is given their own title, unique to them, by which other Arcanists and story-telling peasantry will recognise them.
Gender: Female
Age: 19

Arcanist’s Magus: [Vessel] Vector Manipulation.
Description of Magus: The spirit Regere possesses quite the powerful Magus that allows it to control the vectors of that around it. This allows it - and as such also Scarlet - to manipulate the direction and magnitude of any object and/or force.
While this Magus holds a great deal of possibilities and power, in Scarlet it is severely limited: She has to be in close proximity with the object or force to manipulate it and she has barely any control over it. As such it works sporadically, usually only acting as a form of ‘shield’ around her body, protecting her from harm that would otherwise have killed her- often resulting in situations where she actually hadn’t wanted to use it. This has also resulted in most of the targets have so far been victims that merely touched her, often resulting in broken bones, ruptured blood vessels and so forth.
Amplifier: Interestingly enough this Magus seems to lie almost dormant inside of Scarlet as she has never used it willingly. Instead it seems to react on her emotional and mental stability at any given time - or rather how weak or strong it is. Being the unwilling host of the demon ‘Regere’, Scarlet and the demon have a rather complex and complicated relationship with each other: Regere is constantly trying to consume her in order to experience the life of a mortal - while Scarlet is desperately seeking for ways to nullify, or even better; completely remove Regere from her body. This means that the powers of her Magus is mostly dormant, only activating when she lacks the mental and emotional control, or if she is in danger. If such a situation appears Regere has will try and save his physical shell in order not to lose its possibility of a long life outside of The Nocturne.
Nuller: The mental stability of Scarlet severely affects the usability and power of her Magus: if she is more stable and controlled the abilities and effects of Regere within her is subsided - though it also becomes much more unstable: it is in times when Scarlet is calm and in control that the Magus could suddenly erupt and cause destruction. Interestingly enough: when she is more unstable and not in control the Magus becomes more stable, but also much more powerful. The reason for this is quite simple: the power-source for the Magus is the demon Regere and the more it is in control of her, the more naturally the Magus reacts to the commands of its master: Regere.
Another variable that plays severely into the power of the Magus is how exhausted Scarlet is: has she slept enough? Gotten enough food? Has she been running all day? All of these variables - and more - plays into how powerful and usable her Magus is.

Description of appearance: Scarlet stands at nearly 5’ and 6” with a body that holds little to no muscle and shows clear signs of malnutrition: her face is thin and angular, her bones are clearly visible through her dark colored skin that shows clear signs of abuse and her overall physique seems more fitting to that of a 15-16 year old boy than an 19 year old woman. Her hair holds an interesting scarlet color to it, something that makes it relatively easy to spot her in a crowd - and for this reason she has started to cut it relatively short: it stands in a wild fringe that reaches just past her eyes and grows longer as it reaches towards her thin brown neck. It is coarsely cut by something resembling a knife and clearly haven’t been cleaned in weeks - details that only adds to the wild and homeless look she has.
However her hair isn’t what attracts most attention, no it is her eyes. Scarlet was already born differently than others as she was born with heterochromia: her left eye holds the same, although darker, scarlet tint as her hair, while her right eye holds a dark midnight shade of blue.
Her usual clothing appears to be mostly made from various pieces of worn out material: she wears a pair of used dark brown baggy pants that appear to be just a size or two too big for her. Above this she covers her upper body in a worn out shirt that only adds to her tomboyish appearance. Above all of this she has stolen a warm cloak she uses to hide most of her features from the world.

A short biography: The girl now known as ‘Scarlet’ cannot remember much from her childhood: she cannot remember the place she was born in, her parents nor any possible friends. What she does remember was the all consuming darkness that enveloped her world and the men and women that cared for her and the other children. Of course these men and women were no ordinary humans, no they were all well regarded Arcanists that had been banished from their respective schools for their crimes against the world of Luxa. The crimes they underwent were on the very fringe of science: they wanted to create a world where everything was connected: all the different realms would be fused into one single realm where every single inhabitant of the different realms would then coexist together. However this was only the beginning of their plans: their true aim was to create ‘One People’; a new race that had the traits of both those that walked in the light and those that crept along in the darkness. They wanted to create beings that were of pure Magus - a being that had the energies of both Luxa, Nocturne, Duskthrough and Dawnstream.
Because of this they were banished from their respective countries, but when you cut off the head of a snake it can still bite. The members of the once spread out organization fled from what had been their lives up til then and grouped together and formed a single group. This group began to call themselves the ‘Reliquo’ and found themselves free from the restraints of any material government relocated to the outskirts of the ‘Darkling Domains’ where they found their beliefs to be less shunned.
At their new location they set up their research-facility and began to further improve their studies into their long-term goals. The problem for them was that their ideas had little to no empirical evidence supporting the possibilities of merging the realms and the beings into one - and as such they only had one possible way of advancing their research: one small step at the time. They pondered over this for a long time before they realised that just like the universe, their road was built up from the smallest building blocks: they needed to move at one step at a time - create the first block before moving to the next.
It didn’t take them long to realise that the first of these building-blocks had already been created: the bond between a spirit at its vessel created a being that, in theory, were of both ‘races’ - yet the problem was that it would still create a impure being with two personas and not one collective consciousness. What expired after this was a series of rapid experiments, each trying to figure out a way where you could merge the two consciousnesses together to form a single mind. Sadly most of these experiments failed because of incompatibilities between the host vessel and the foreign spirit. It simply wasn’t possible to completely merge the two together to create one.
Because of the high failure rate in their experiments the scientists naturally needed a large quantity of research subjects - and how they got these was at first through ‘liberation’ of those that were being suppressed by the society: the weak, the poor and the criminal. However this method of choosing quickly because too inefficient and as such the researchers decided to broaden their criteria for selecting subjects. Everyone was fair game: the rich, the poor, their families, their own children - after all: each subject benefitted the greater good in sacrificing themselves for an eternity of honor and giving - the only thing that was in common for every subject was that they were still prepubescent when they arrived at the facility.

It was at this point in time that the girl now known as ‘Scarlet’ became part of the research subjects, however how she became to be one of these unfortunate subjects is unknown as the collection of such details had become sloppy within the organization. As such it is unknown where she came from: was she the daughter of a scientist? A poor girl on the streets? The daughter of a rich royal family? Or just your average unlucky child of a farmer? It is unlikely that the truth will ever become known - and even if you ask her it doesn’t matter, she was, after all, abandoned to that place with no memories of her former life.
What occurred during her many years of her stay in ‘Reliquo’s’ research facility was an infinite number of mental and physical exercises and experiments that were all meant to prepare her as the most suitable host.
However little progress were being made as the years went by and as such their actions became more and more extreme. Finally 13 years after Scarlet first arrived at the facility the scientists had become so desperate for any advances in their research. This lead them to try another experiment: Why bother with the problematics of two entities in one body, when you can remove one of them from the equation beforehand? This idea spawned what would become a catalyst in Scarlet’s life. The scientists decided to try and erase her conscious before they would insert the spirit into her mortal shell - however it didn’t end as they predicted: she woke up soon after the insertion, and instead of having been removed from her own body she was trapped in it with a demon known as ‘Regere’.

The spirit called ‘Regere’ was one of the old spirits: it had experienced the many wars that had raged through the different realms and it had had its fair share of the blood spilled. It was a wicked spirit that feasted on the mortals - yet it also envied them: to be able to walk in the mortal realms, to feel what they feel and live how they live, it is something Regere craved after - and had been promised by the scientists, yet here it was: trapped inside Scarlet’s body and with her still inside! This wasn’t something it was happy with, but instead of leaving Scarlet’s body Regere decided to try and do the job itself: It had started to enjoy her body and through wicked mind-games it planned to push her aside in order to take her body. Yet Scarlet felt stronger than before, somehow Regere fuelled her, giving her a sense of strength she had never felt before and through this strength she manifested the Magus of Regere. This helped her escape the facility that had been her life since she was 5: she broke loose of her restraints, forced her way through the facility that had been left mostly unguarded during the night and tasted the taste of free air for the first time in over a decade.

Over the course of the next two years Scarlet suffered through the life with Regere inside of him. She mostly survived by stealing and running: living in the streets - or if she was lucky: in a kind man’s house. Since her escape she had used most of her energy on discovering ways to remove the spirit inside of her from her body: this has become her goal in life - and after 2 years of searching she has discovered one simple truth: she needs a powerful magic to remove Regere from her body.

Text Colour: Scarlet?

Other bits and pieces: Because of Scarlet’s life-experiences and her more or less sporadic Magus she has become extremely shy and scared of physical contact. The reason for this is because she is scared of hurting others accidentally.
At times Regere has been seen to take over her body entirely, changing her persona and characteristics entirely - however it has only been for brief moments up till now.

[Captain Jenno]

Arcanist’s Name: Corvus Tenesilia
Arcanist’s Title: The Vagabond Prince
Gender: Male
Age: 22
Arcanist’s Magus: Umbramancy.
Description of Magus: Corvus' umbramancy allows him to manipulate tangible shadows. During the day this only manifests through his own shadow, but when night falls he can draw upon the shadows of other solid objects.

Amplifier: The phases of the moon. Corvus grows stronger at night, but only fractionally so. His umbramancy grows more powerful throughout the month, starting at the young moon and getting steadily more effective until it peaks at the new moon, and then resets once it's passed. In the event of a lunar eclipse, Corvus can function at full power for a few minutes during the day.

Nuller: Daylight. During the day, regardless of how vivid another shadow might be, Corvus can only manipulate his own.

Description of appearance: Standing at 5'11, Corvus is a narrow shouldered, svelte figure, with light olive skin and faintly freckled features. His hair is long and shaggy, and a shade of charcoal which borders on black. It moves almost imperceptibly, as though it were alive but trying to remain subtle. His eyes are honey brown.
Although he wears a light, boiled-leather suit- a must have when one visits The Nocturne- he wraps himself consistently in a long green cloak, joined together by a broach depicting the crescent moon. On the cloak's back, in silver, is the image of a lone oak tree.

A short biography: Corvus was born and raised in the small coastal village of Pittoresco, a quaint settlement on the very outskirts of The Crepuscular Kingdoms, into a long lineage of respected middle-classmen, distilled from generations of Auroramancers and Opacamancers.
The village was largely rural, and as such most of the children there grew up as fishermen and sailors, molded by the shimmering purple sea that flanked them. And, frankly, Corvus thought that seemed like a fun upbringing. He, like every child of The Crepuscular Kingdoms, dreamed of such things: To take to the sea, perhaps not as a fisherman, but as an explorer!

But such things, his mother told him, were not meant for the 'better half' of society. He would be an Arcanist like every Tenesilia before him. And, with his lineage, he would hopefully become a prodigious Luxomancer, too...
... well, she got her wish. And the attention of every gossip in Pittoresco, too.
Because as it happened, he did become a competent Luxomancer: But he was neither an opacamancer, nor an auroramancer.
He was an umbramancer, instead. And whilst there's no evidence that genetics have any real influence on what magus you develop, this was still enough for his mother to sobbingly reveal to the family that he, Corvus Tenesilia, was a bastard child. Born of adultery between herself and a noble of The Darkling Domain.
"His hair shifts, don't you see? Like a demon of The Nocturne's! So did his! So did his fathers!"

Disgraced, and having nearly torn apart the family indirectly, Corvus was packed up and sent out into Luxa alone at fifteen, with only his shadow to keep him company. But somehow, that sufficed: For, he reckons, it spoke to him. It joked with him, and grew with him.
They headed South, to The Darkling Domains, in search of the only salvation Corvus had: His alleged father, Hatrem Quies.
He walked across Luxa day and night (in fact he found the nights easier) with only that name and his seemingly noble status to guide him. And eventually, he succeeded, finding the Quies familial manner in the town of Somre, in valley somewhere between the night and the gloam.
But his father did not seem so keen to accept him.

In truth, Corvus may have been a bastard son, but he was also Hatrem's only son, and thus heir to his fortunes. But the two shared barely anything: Hatrem was an esteemed soldier and vessel umbramancer, which is likely why he and Corvus boasted hair which moved, and writhed. And yet, he did not send Corvus away empty handed.
"The world is at chaos, child. Heed the call of The Aurora Empire, and deliver it into peace again. Then, then you will be my heir."
And with that, Corvus departed for the Eastern territories, and took with him a title, given to him by the Darklings of Somre: The boy who would be rich, if he completed this dangerous task and walked the world to do it. Corvus Tenesilia, The Vagabond Prince.

Text Colour: I quite like this one!
Other bits and pieces: Corvus seems to think his shadow is alive, or at the very least speaks to it like it is. He calls it Li.