ButtsnBallsArcanist’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.
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.