“Besides, if you're going to die horribly, you might as well do it with style.”
-Bartimaeus on Nathaniel dying
Name:Nathaniel
Age:24
Species:Human
Gender:Male
Personality:Excerpt from Bartimaeus Trilogy WikiaFrom a very young age, Nathaniel was fully immersed within the philosophy and worldview of the average British magician. Consequently, he began his life with the disposition of a traditional apprentice: selfish, arrogant, and naïve. However, several factors affected Nathaniel in ways that most apprentices were not. Martha Underwood, his first master's wife, took the role of a surrogate mother in his life. She showered the young boy with attention and kindness and called him by his birth name, allowing the boy's morality and sense of loyalty remain intact (to some extent).
Nathaniel also displayed an ambitious and brilliant intellect from the beginning, enabling him to quickly equal and even surpass his first master, at least in terms of summoning prowess. It was this ambition and intelligence that motivated much of his personal development, as his encounters with the djinni Bartimaeus, the Resistance, and the destruction of Underwood's house were all initiated by a plot that Nathaniel hatched to avenge himself on the magician Simon Lovelace.
At the end of this conflict, Nathaniel was propelled to a position of favor and admiration, his talent and career under the personal watch of both Rupert Devereaux and Jessica Whitwell. This rapid advance affected his personality negatively even as his own skills were increased, and he became a vain and arrogant young magician.
However, a shred of the old Nathaniel remained, particularly in his sense of morality and honor, and eventually would transform him into the selfless and heroic magician in the final battle against Nouda. Nathaniel would die in the battle, but not before saving several innocent commoners (among them Kitty Jones) and even the life of Bartimaeus.
By the end of the Trilogy, Nathaniel displays not only a conscientious regard for the lives and wellbeing of commoners, magicians, and demons, but also a willingness to lay his own life down to save them.When accepted into the Das Jotunheimen, he preferred more subtle techniques to cause chaos, never wanting to harm innocents and generally changed the universes he was transported to in a positive manner.
Bio:Excerpt from Bartimaeus Trilogy WikiaNathaniel was born to unknown parents, and then, at age five, sent to live with the middle class magician Arthur Underwood as part of a government program.
At the age of 12, Nathaniel summoned the spirit, Bartimaeus, to do his bidding for him. Initially, he was very afraid, due to knowing the djinni's background, but also due to his appearance. After confirming Bartimaeus' identity, Nathaniel charged him with obtaining the Amulet of Samarkand from the house of Simon Lovelace. Although the djinni was skeptical at first, he eventually left, before Nathaniel could inflict the Systemic Vise on him. Later, they saved the Prime Minister and other members of the parlament when Simon Lovelace summoned Ramuthra to kill them.
Two years later, he summoned Bartimaeus again, and he and Bartimaeus solved the Golem case, (although Kitty Jones actually killed the golem) and killed the afrit Honorius.
Later, when Nathaniel was seventeen, he was landed in the middle of Quentin Makepeace's scheme, and summoned his djinn, Bartimaeus, into his body (unwillingly, it was Kitty who convinced him to do so) and acquired Gladstone's staff. He slew Nouda and the other demon-human hybrids, but died in the process. The Glass Palace collapsed on him. Even at the very end, he gave Bartimaeus his freedom.When Nathaniel awoke next to the great Ghazghkull, he was certainly surprised. He was awoken with the Ring of Solomon, Gladstone's Staff, the Seven League boots and the Amulet of Samarkand! The four most powerful magical items in the whole of magical society was now his property! Of course, he had a nasty time waking up due to the fact that his new partner almost tried to kill him with his Power Klaw.
The battle between the two was furious. Two powerful entities from two very different worlds. Nathaniel almost immediately summoned Bartimaeus, his loyal and trusting companion that probably thought he was dead. The magician would've laughed at his reaction if only he wasn't being threatened by a ten foot giant with almost insurmountable strength and weapons. Eventually, the two caused so much chaos fighting each other (Ghazghkull almost beat the living snot out of a poor afrit) that Das Jotunheimen had to intervene. The two were immediately separated from each other, never to meet again. As one of the most powerful in Das Jotunheimen's Agents, he is granted the ability to travel the multiverse alone, tagging along with pairs on rare occasions.
Abilities:Amulet of SamarkandThe amulet grants the user protection from all magical attacks and has enough power to stop a bolt from a greater Marid, the largest and most powerful of all spirits in the nine plains.
Staff of GladstoneThis grants Nathaniel the ability to amplify his power by numbers in the dozens. The ability to summon two marids at once is almost unheard of and Gladstone's Staff gives the user that power without any of the nasty side affects the far more powerful Ring has. It also gives the user the ability to summon a low level afrit and downwards almost instantly, without the use of the boring procedures. The Staff grants you the ability to have 50 spirits summoned at a time.
Ring of SolomonThe ring offers the power of summoning 500 spirits on your lonesome, a great and powerful ability that made Solomon the greatest magician of all time. From the lowliest imp to the greatest Marid, the Ring of Solomon can summon them all. The ring has some extreme disadvantages as well. If you summon more than a thousand spirits, you will experience excruciating pain, large amounts of fatigue, the inability to move or speak and be incredibly vulnerable. Even when summoning small numbers of mid-level djinni, it gives the user a headache and they may experience puking. Nathaniel rarely uses the ring and has only wielded it in certain crucial battles.
The Magicians Mark The mark appears during puberty and it marks a child whether it is magical or not. Each mark is entirely unique to every magician (with the rare exception of twins) and magical training starts almost a day afterwards. Nathaniel is, arguably, one of the most talented and powerful magicians in the modern day world. Armed with his weapons, he is the most powerful in existence. The ability to summon a Marid and a high-level afrit at the same time is almost unheard of. The fact that he can also bind him to his will simultaneously is a testimony to his will.
Universe of Origin:The Bartimaeus Sequence
