Tomotaxi

Witch Hunt: Story of Stars

A person can have proficiencies in more than one element yes?

@Polaris North

Typically a person only has one, and casting elemental spells of any other type would be done through enchanted items.

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Quick question: How would self-buffing work in this kind of setting with the elements? I imagine it would fall into the element of Wind as support magic?

I'm planning to make a generally tanky type of frontline character

@Polaris North

The argument could be made that different elements could buff different aspects of a person. Fire magic to "heat up" the muscles and increase physical strength, wind to speed them up, earth to shield themselves, so on and so forth. Due to its nature as freeform rather than having a hard stat and ability system, as long as there's a reasonable explanation for the usage of magic whether it be literal or figurative, I don't see a problem.

I had another question. I'm interested in possibly playing a child of a nobleman that resides in Lowick. Do you have anything planned already for a type of class system (nobility, lower-class, middle-class), or would I be able to wing it?

@Ozzoquen

Other than the general class system of your average fantasy kingdom, you'd be able to wing it with Lowick for the most part in that regard.

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Ah, following that line of thought, I have now also added an "equipment" section that I forgot to add to the character sheet! Knew something was missing.

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Just a minor question. I imagine mages don't need to be kept to just one type of weapon, such as staves? Can they use daggers, swords, bows, etc, and push their magic on to those weapons? Or is it more common for them to not have any weapons or focuses?

@Ozzoquen

Staves aren't necessarily the item of choice, no, it could be whatever you'd like.

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As a first little note, it's intentional that there's little info on each of the ruling nations at the moment. It'll be filled in more as the story progresses. As a result of this, though, you may feel free to expand upon bits of the world within reason. Things like making up towns or cities where your character may have been born or lived in, as long as they fit the general theme of the area, is totally fine and even encouraged!

I also don't want anyone to feel like they need to be a mage to be powerful, as things like special items will be found throughout the story as well that non-mages could use. Just as well, due to this still being anime in essence, over the top physical feats will be something you could aim for.

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@Nyther@Polaris North@Ozzoquen@Skwint@XAnth@LetMeDoStuff

OOC is up! If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

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Witch Hunt: Story of Stars

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The Beginning: At the start of history was a goddess of great power, isolated within an ivory cube of nothingness. With all of her power, she was still alone, and she still had nothing. Thus she created the world, and with it, five disciples to spread word of her glory to all who would soon walk the same soil as them. The goddess feared that her creations would look upon her and see one unworthy of their praise, and so forbade all from entering her realm, closed off from those that would later come to be called 'mortals', and even her own personal disciples. Soon, she was forgotten. Despite this, her disciples would carry out her work, joining the world that came to be known as 'Ivor'.

The Middle: Her disciples, which later came to be known as the 'Starborn' for their descent from the goddess' divine realm from above, and each of them representing the point of a star, would spread word of their creator's selflessness and beauty. They would demonstrate mysterious powers far beyond the reach of mere humans, and as a sign of peace in times of mistrust, would grant humans the ability to cast what was later called magic. However, this peace was not to last.

The Beginning of the End: As centuries passed the Starborn would grow bored and lax, allowing their powers to freely leak out into the mortal world and create new life that would not have existed without magical interference. They eventually distanced themselves across the world, becoming more withdrawn from the new world that was moving on without need of them. Dragons, orcs, goblins, undead, and all other manner of beings that defied reason would spawn from the dying optimism of the Starborn. Even so, the world at large didn't miss them. However, a religious order dedicated to the Starborn would eventually form to allow their voices to be heard, which came to be known as the 'Order of Five Spears'. The Order would start with peaceful sermons, but when met with mockery and denouncement, seen as people that clung to the past foolishly, they did not waver. As years passed, their name became synonymous with villainy itself, and the Order became known as a group of violent and psychotic extremists that wished for an age that no longer had a place in the world.

The End: Year 1799 of the Ivorian calendar, March 1st. On this day, Ivor as a whole was changed. The capital city of the kingdom of Lowick was attacked by strange, mud-like beasts that resembled nothing that any historian or scholar had ever written of in any tome. Many were killed by the abominations, and those that survived were escorted by official knight transports to escape the massacre. With Lowick's fall, the Order of Five Spears, now known as a cult of outlaws, claimed to be responsible for the attacks. They said that the Starborn had taken up the path of dark magic and had become witches to destroy the world. Soon, town after town throughout the remaining territory controlled within Lowick's borders would be ravaged and destroyed by creatures never before seen and nigh impossible to kill for an average person. Soon, reports flooded in that this same situation was occurring across other territories and even across different continents. The former king of the fallen kingdom of Lowick, and many other royals in his footsteps, put out the order for a 'Witch Hunt'. In essence, to find and eliminate all of the Starborn corrupted by witchery. Immense wealth would be given to any adventurers who could defeat even a single witch, as many whispered that the fate of the world was now hanging in the balance. Thus, a group of adventurers hired by the old ruler of Lowick would band together, each with their own goals, to save the world.

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The Continents

Within Ivor, there are five continents, each one taken over by a different ruler. There are many territories within each continent, but each swears fealty to one of the five rulers.

Lowick

Lowick is a land of trade, welcoming and humble beginnings. With a very vertical landscape, and with rugged mountains and grassy hills alike, it's a part of the world with a lot of environmental variety. Lowick has a proud and widely documented military force, the Magic Knights, that combine sword and sorcery to defend their people. Most people in Lowick at least know basic magic to make their day-to-day lives easier, and many citizens as a result will choose either the path of the sword, of the arcane, or of the Magic Knights at some point in their life. Their current ruler, King Reginald Lowick XI, is considered a fair ruler by all definitions of the word, and who served in the Magic Knights in his youth. Ever since the witch hunt began, with Lowick and its capital city of Saint Reginald being hit the hardest so far, morale in the kingdom has dropped considerably. Faith in the Magic Knights has dwindled with their numbers dropping in skirmishes against the foul beasts conjured by black magic. Legends say that Lowick's soil was where the Starborn first descended upon the world, and where the Witch of Contracts, Loretta, makes her home.

Lowickan Territories and Cities

Saint Reginald: The capital city of Lowick, named after King Reginald Lowick I, and a proud bastion of hope for the people. It's here where Magic Knights are trained and where some of the best knights and wizards of the current day gather for yearly combat tournaments to test their skills. By some foreigners it's called the "City of Greed" with how lavish its king allows his capital city to appear, perhaps at the cost of funding for some of his other, more struggling cities further on the outskirts.

Mynol

Mynol's capital city of Levia is highly regarded as the seafood capital of the world, and inspires culinarians from all over the world to visit at least once. Mynol as a whole is a very wet and swampy part of the world, with both proud and vast oceans, and ominous and insidious bogs. They have a massive problem dealing with sea monsters, and thus have a "monthly culling" where the best and bravest warriors of the kingdom would defend their cities and hunt down troublesome monsters on the high seas. King Ludrix Nacht rules his territories with an iron fist, having first taken power over the previous king a decade ago in a bloody rebellion.

It's also in this kingdom where the organization known as the "Slayers" would have first formed - a group dedicated to pursuing and eliminating high-profile and infamous beasts that roam both the land and sea. These hunters would use guerilla warfare tactics, assassination and debilitating magic to exterminate their prey. They formed originally to fight against demons, who are widely known in various stories and records to have first materialized from the darkest depths of the ocean, but are now general-purpose monster hunters and mercenaries for hire. It's also said that the Witch of Conception, Galor, hides somewhere in Mynol.

Mynolian Territories and Cities

Levia: The dream of all aspiring chefs and artists is to make it big in Levia, and as a whole, the city finds itself home to many eccentrics and aristocrats alike. Something unspoken within its walls is that treachery and assassination awaits beneath the pretty and elegant exterior of this booming port city - though who would dare speak of that and risk being next on the chopping block? The Slayers' main headquarters also resides here, but with their primary directive being monster slaying, they rarely if ever get themselves involved with Levia's backstabbing problem.

Gatharia

The Sultanate of Gatharia is widely regarded to be the safest place in the entire world when inside one of its cities. Well, from monsters, anyway. With its vast sands that stretch beyond the horizon, cutting winds, scorching days and freezing nights, one will likely find great relief upon reaching civilization in Gatharia. Each Gatharian city, upheld under oath of loyalty between the city's mayor and Sultan Daal Indra, would receive a bubble of magical wind energy that cloaks the entire city in its protection. Only citizens with specially enchanted wind amulets may progress through these bubbles to enter and exit Gatharian cities without issue, and those without will be repelled by powerful wind magic - unable to either enter or leave without one. Crime is light in Gatharian cities, as most crimes are punishable by death by the Sultan's decree. Amulet checks are often made as well, with patrolling guards arresting any found without an amulet. The protective winds of Gatharia have never broken or succumbed to any threat no matter how great, and even during the witch hunt, the cursed beasts that remain thralls to the witches have yet to breach a Gatharian wind barrier. Rumor has it that the Witch of Reversal, Dorothy, makes her home here, surviving among the harsh desert sands.

Gatharian Territories and Cities

Zebul: Zebul is the capital of Gatharia, and its wind barrier is widely regarded to be the strongest defensive magic in all existence, impenetrable even by gods. Gatharia is a nation that has never been on the attacking side of any wars, as they have nothing to worry by simply relying on the wind barrier, stronger than all others even among Gatharian territories, known as the Million Year Shield. It's said that the first Sultan of Gatharia had discovered the secrets of the universe and had found the strongest wind magic in the process, claiming that "Gatharia is the nation that shall see the sun rise and fall a million times, remain stalwart, and witness the sun's arrival a million times more" after conjuring the Million Year Shield. It's a rather militant city, under direct supervision by the Sultan himself, who is a perfectionist when it comes to management of his territories.

Titan

Titan is known by many as "the place gods fear". The first person who could be considered a true "warrior" in history that rose above the rest, a man by the name of Atlas, carved and sculpted Titan's landscapes himself with his fights against the "First Sins", a long and mysterious battle against undocumented creatures that took place over the course of Atlas' entire life. Together with the help of a group of heroes assembled from across the world, Atlas dedicated his life to eradicating the First Sins, and on his deathbed at the age of 350, declared his lands to be called "Titan", and those who served him to decide for themselves who would rule. His courage drove many children to aspire to become worthy warriors and leaders like Atlas, and to this day a "true ruler" of the Titanian Lands has not been decided. Warring tribes make their homes atop its peaks and valleys, its plateaus, and its vast cave systems. The Witch of Observation, Haine, watches the Titanian conflict with great interest.

Titanian Territories and Cities

Sinful Rest: Sinful Rest is a city of architecture and chivalry, and acts a neutral zone for all warring tribes to speak to one another and establish diplomatic relations without fear of betrayal or assassination. This is because the city's location was built around Atlas' final resting place, a crypt in the center of the city. His aura of an honorable and valiant warrior acts as a limiter and curse, preventing all acts of backstabbing, betrayal and scheming from occurring. Within the walls of Sinful Rest, lies are not kept, and it's a common saying to "Take your lover to Sinful Rest and see if you leave with them as your lover still". In an otherwise lawless land, Sinful Rest acts as an anchor and a gathering point for even mortal enemies to be civil with one another before the bloodshed starts again.

Zephyr

Zephyr is a nearly uninhabitable continent where life no longer grows or prospers and where a deadly poison mist settles on the ground from above the clouds on stormy nights. Some citizens could go their entire lives without seeing the color green, and any trees, grass or vegetables that do grow are either done through magical means or through trading from more prosperous lands. Its landscape is mostly rock and water, having little in the way of beauty, and with structures that change and shift depending on the day due to magical curses prevalent within the very rock and soil of the land.

Even Zephyr's richest inhabitants find themselves struggling to get by, and crime is rampant and unpunished. It was once a great empire that was annihilated beyond all recovery when the previous ruler, Emperor Lyon Garron, tried to conquer the world. Lowick and Mynol banded together against him, and together, razed his lands to cinders in some areas and drowned his towns in great floods in others. The result is a barren wasteland where monsters thrive more than people, and its citizens are steadily dying off as days go by. One woman by the name of Minnow is trying to unite the people and lead them to recovery, and has gained a steady following as time goes on. The Witch of Stories, Varia, is said to have already died a long time ago - and yet, traces of her power remain strong within Zephyr.

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Magic, Religion and the Order of Five Spears

Magic is widely used across Ivor, and it's not even uncommon to see somebody casting spells to solve minor inconveniences if they have the proficiency to do so. The ability to cast magic naturally exists within roughly 50% of the population, being the descendants of the first people blessed by the Starborn. Experiments have been conducted by wizards in the past to attempt to force the Starborns' blessing onto a non-magical person, but documented successes are rare and the consequences for failure are severe and life-altering on the subject. For casting magic, the elements of fire, water, wind, earth, lightning, and ice are the most commonly used and researched. Other less common but still known elements include light and darkness, with those who possess them considered to be gifted or destined for greatness. Other elements aside from these do exist, but aren't documented very often with their rarity, and with the average mortal body not well equipped to contain elements aside from the commonly known ones. Typically, if someone adopts an element other than these, it's because they're created from leaking Starborn magic and are born as beasts, demons or other such unnatural beings.

Religion was once a popular and encouraged side of life, with different pantheons of gods. However, after a certain point, the world seemed to forget their names. Their deeds and laws were erased, and their most devout clerics completely clueless as to what they revered so highly so much as a minute before. The only deity that can truly be remembered is the goddess who allowed her Starborn disciples to descend to the mortal realm, but even her name has been forgotten. As it is now, religion is mostly based around the "concept" of gods, with people following laws and ideals of gods that they believed must have existed in the past. This memory wipe occurred at the start of recorded time, with year 1 of Ivor's calendar being the starting point of current civilization.

The Order of Five Spears is one of the more prominent, yet illegal, religions currently in Ivor and was founded in the early 1500's. They praise the Starborn as spawn of the Original Goddess, The Ivory Queen, and wage war in the name of her and her disciples. While at first they were a religious organization dedicated to the betterment of the world and to pray for the return of the Starborn to civilization, being ridiculed and mocked for their beliefs eventually resulted in a more violent direction for their members. There are five War Priests that rule over the Order as a council that dictates the direction their organization takes, and each is revered by the lesser members greatly. With the witch hunt being declared, the Order is moving to defend the newly deemed witches that they worship. Each War Priest is said to be strong enough to turn a city into a crater by themselves or turn an army into a pile of corpses, and thus must not be taken lightly by any who would oppose them.

Above the War Priests is the Grand Templar, who has been said to be alive for hundreds of years and who has created miracles to guide the people to salvation. He hasn't been seen in public in many years, but it's said that anybody who is granted a private audience with him leaves as a loyal follower for life. One person in the party will start out as a loyalist to the Order of Five Spears.

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The Ivory Grimoire

An Adventurer's Best Friend

A special book that will be updated as your journey progresses. It will detail world knowledge you acquire, people you meet, and monsters you fight, as well as display any current objectives as a reminder.

Objectives

Party Objective: Survive?

Bestiary

Notable People

Lowick

King Reginald Lowick XI

The ruler of Lowick in the modern day. Known as a fair and generous king, and to be the type to be unafraid to fight for his people. Despite being in his late 30's, however, his hair has lost all color due to overuse of magic burning the crimson out of his hair. Ever since, his body has been on a physical decline, his body advancing beyond what is reasonable for his age.

Second Prince Regis Lowick

The second prince of Lowick. As a royal son not in line for the throne, Regis has instead trained from a young age to become a capable warrior. Eventually he ascended to become a captain of the Magic Knights at the age of 18. Ever since, now a 25 year old young man, he embodies the undying valor that all knights of Lowick should strive for.

World Knowledge

Lowick

Azoth Dagger

A legendary dagger belonging to the royal family of Lowick. It's a magical item enchanted by all elements simultaneously, considered to be one of the greatest pieces of craftsmanship in the history of mortals. It strikes with all elements at the same time condensed into a single attack, and thrusts true towards evil.

Daily Record

Year 1799, March 1st: Lowick is under attack by an unknown enemy. The Azoth Dagger is successfully retrieved from Saint Reginald's royal vault, and is given to Prince Regis.

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Character Sheet

Name:
Race: Most fantasy races are acceptable.
Gender:
Age:
Appearance: Anime FCs if you use an image, to stay consistent.
Personality: Two paragraphs minimum.
Element: Erase if you're a non-mage.
Equipment: Weapons, armor, etc.
Skills: Non-magical talents?
Abilities: Supernatural powers, whether that be special uses of your element or otherwise superhuman feats. 3 maximum to start.
History: The party will be starting in Lowick after the attack, so regardless of where you came from, also state how you got there.

Fate / Astrolabe

Quinn

Name: Quinn Corkhill
Appearance:

The Slacker

Age: 19
Gender: Male
Personality: While at first Quinn has the exterior of a delinquent, what one would find when talking to him is a decent soul. His gaze that he doesn't realize gives people death stares when he doesn't mean to? Well, that's something he's still trying to fix and appreciates when people point it out. Above all, his main goal in life is to squeak out a suitable living and do the best that he can with what he has. By all accounts he's an average person who goes out to watch movies with friends, go on dates with girls he fancies, and celebrate every holiday as if it were his last. If there was one thing that could be said to be 'off' about him, however, is that sometimes his stare seems to not be looking at a particular thing or person, even when making direct eye contact; rather, he seems to be staring at something immaterial, almost as if he's looking towards something that isn't really there.

When this blank staring happens, misfortune whether minor or major seems to occur around him, and as a result it became something of an unspoken rule in his friend groups to minimize the amount of time spent alone with Quinn before he enters one of his famed trances. Outside of this, he thinks he's a relatively alright person who tries his best to help in society, and even harder to suppress the idea of his mage lineage. He'll crack stupid jokes to lighten a mood or be the first one to talk if everyone else is silent, but tries not to get too attached to anyone in particular.

As a mage, he could be summed up with the phrase "self-sabotage". He's been praised in the past among his family and family friends as a prodigy when he puts his mind to something, but unremarkable at things that don't interest him. Unfortunately, what this tends to mean is that he'll learn magecraft to enhance his personal life rather than contribute to his lineage, not wanting to think about getting serious as a mage with all the pressure and anxiety he'd have thrust upon him and the inhuman mentality he'd need to adopt. He doesn't consider a true magus to be human, and has a negative outlook towards those who pride themselves on their magical lineage, knowing what they'd need to do to accomplish their goals.

As a person, finally, his ideal self would be someone who helps the world by using magecraft, but struggles with that thought due to the secrecy behind their society. He tries his best to be honest at all times, but is often pretty horrible about self-reflection, overlooking the obvious regarding his own feelings and wishes. He doesn't have the determination to be a hero, probably, but he does want to strive to find the best in people and fight against the worst. Despite being a slacker, he does find himself reluctantly yet diligently helping people when he can find the time to do so and if it doesn't screw him over for doing so.

Skills:

- Bilingual: Quinn can speak both English and Japanese fluently, and read and write in both of those languages as well.

- Phone Savvy: Kids these days, right? Quinn is masterful with a cellphone, with how much time he spends on it. He can text, call and take photos with his phone at near inhuman speeds, and tends to download apps to deal with modern day inconveniences as he happens across them.

- Reflexes: While Quinn isn't the most skilled combatant, having undergone no formal training in his past, he is abnormally fast to react and plan quickly in tense situations. At times, it's almost as if he's able to react to something either just as or just before it's happened - but that's probably more hyperbole from people who have witnessed him move and react quickly in the past.

Abilities:

- Corkhill Magic Crest: The crest of the Corkhill family runs through Quinn's flesh and blood. However, he never bothered to learn most of the knowledge within, learning what interested him and ignoring the rest. As it is now, it acts to assist him with doing what he's comfortable with, and that's it, not invested in unlocking its true potential. Every now and again it throbs more painfully than a regular crest, and for a brief moment he feels as if he'd forgotten something. Whether these pains are real or all in his head is unknown to him, as there are no physical wounds left behind from this pain.

- Mystic Eyes of Premonition: Mystic Eyes that grant Quinn the ability to peer into the future. While their full potential isn't known to him, and he's kept this ability close to the chest, he does use them to get through mundane life easier. At the current moment he can see about two seconds into the future, and due to this, the ability isn't a huge help outside of the mundane as it stands. They normally activate on his command, but sometimes they passively and unwillingly act without his own desire to use them, seeing anything from situations of potential death so that he can avoid it, to minor inconveniences like seeing a friend drop their ice cream cone. Most of the time, though, automatic activation is only during situations of mortal peril for him or someone he holds dear. Overuse can lead to headaches, body aches or even put him at risk of unconsciousness.

- Thought Acceleration: Magecraft typically used by alchemists, but Quinn decided to put time into learning it out of convenience, pulling it from his family crest with one of the past family heirs being an alchemist of the Atlas Institute. By accelerating his thoughts to allow for more time to think and process information at a supernatural rate, he can ace tests at school easier or think of the best pick-up line to say to a cute girl while on a date to charm her even more. In general, the world seems to move much slower, though he doesn't actually get faster at all, but can simply process everything at a far faster rate or think about things for a longer stretch of time, stretching a split second into multiple. Overuse can lead to headaches, tiredness and extreme hunger from expending so much energy. It can be paired with his Mystic Eyes, but doing so for more than a few seconds is often a huge mistake that leads to nothing good, so Quinn only does so in life-or-death situations.

- [Mystic Code] Gauntlet of Treachery: A silver and red ring fitted to the right hand that, by activating magic circuits in the hand in which the ring rests and uttering the phrase "Reject the throne and embrace your true self, O Treacherous One", will morph and shape into a grey and red spiked gauntlet that reaches up to the elbow. The gauntlet grants the arm worn a boost to physical strength and is incredibly durable, also nullifying any recoil from throwing punches or lifting things beyond the user's normal capabilities with the arm. Theorized to be a small piece of armor belonging to the Knight of Treachery of the Round Table, Mordred. Whether genuine or a replica, however, is unknown; but this Mystic Code has been passed down through the Corkhill family for generations, regardless.

Backstory: The Corkhill family is one that has lasted long yet proven to be unremarkable. Their crest has many spells within it that don't raise eyebrows or gain praise, seemingly going for quantity over quality, and not really specializing at anything. However, for as long as Quinn could remember, he'd been raised as a "prodigal son" and the one to lead Corkhill to greatness. From the very moment that he learned that he was born not out of love but from "superior genetics" from an arranged marriage between his father and mother, he was disgusted by mage society. Raised in Ireland, his family eventually moved to London once he started to grow old enough to learn magecraft. He studied from various tutors sent from the Clock Tower, and over years had his family crest transplanted as well. It was one day when he finally met his first girlfriend by the name of Serena, the light of his life among many different layers of darkness underneath, that things took a turn from the mage lifestyle for him.

As years passed with Serena, learning more about each other and growing closer, he worked more diligently at his studies both as a regular school kid in public and as a mage at home. She was his drive in life, his first love, and somebody he in his years of emotional highs and lows as a teenager, thought would love dearly forever. It was a day as simple as any other, really, when that perception changed. They were walking home late one night from a movie, him walking her to her doorstep as if it were any other date. She declined, but he insisted, because it was no burden for him. They were almost to her home when a man came out of the shadows in front of them brandishing a knife. For any other mage such an ordeal would be nothing, but the Corkhill family wasn't one that had much in the way of combative capabilities and thus Quinn would have to resolve the situation as a regular teenager against a grown man with manic eyes, a drunken anger and a tall stature.

It went about as well as that sounded, with Quinn being slashed at and kicked away when his body had no fight left. The man was yelling about Serena rejecting him, about how the two "should get together like old times", and that he couldn't live without her. Quinn's eyes changed at that moment as he struggled to stand - a brief flicker of color that illuminated his world - and... he saw Serena backing away and getting cut down by the man. In the time it took to process something that didn't feel real, time felt as if it flashed backwards... and it happened a second time, this time without going backwards. The shock was enough to paralyze Quinn, removing the last of the fight he had. The rest was rather unremarkable, with the man dropping the knife in a panic, realizing what he'd done. Before the two was Serena's bleeding corpse. There were no last words, because Quinn's world blocked out all sound even as Serena looked him in the eyes and mouthed something to him that, to this day, he couldn't remember. Was it something important? Maybe, but it wasn't something he could just remember when he hadn't heard it. The man went to jail, sobbing on the pavement long enough for Quinn to call the police without emotion, dissociating from the situation in shock.

The life of a mage meant nothing to him at that point. A prodigy? What did learning magecraft get him if he wasn't allowed to live his life? All his parents did to console him after the fact was express relief that the family crest was intact and that Quinn himself hadn't been seriously injured, before calling him stupid for fighting back instead of running away and using the girl as a distraction. That was the final straw. "There's nothing here for me anymore.", he would mutter to himself one night alone, and that was when he realized that he refused this reality he lived in.

He threw away all the potential he was praised for as a magical prodigy, abandoned his scholarship to the Clock Tower, and called some distant family that lived abroad in Tokyo that had no idea of the mage side of the family. As a final act of rebellion, Quinn stole the precious heirloom of the Corkhill family, the Gauntlet of Treachery, and packed whatever he could bring on his back.

That was a year ago. Ever since, he's been living in Tokyo, working a part-time job to support himself. Recently he's moved into a one bedroom apartment, not wanting to trouble his Tokyo family with his own problems. He occasionally practices magecraft, but by doing so for too long, he'll get flashes of Serena's murder and be forced to stop. A part of him wishes he could go back to that day and ensure things went differently. That he could save Serena (kill that drunken bastard with his own knife), subdue and arrest the man that attacked them (he doesn't deserve to live, why did he live instead of her?), and some day marry her and live a happy life as both a human and a magus with a loving family (he needs to die, right now, I'll kill him...). He rejects mage society, and tries his best to avoid detection by fellow magi and anything to do with being outside of the normal.

What character archetypes/characteristics do you gravitate towards?

Rugged, thuggish characters, "dark knight" archetypes, manipulators who aren't very strong in direct combat, and unrelenting heroes of justice would be my primary types, I'd say.