M O N T A G U E

NECROMANCY:

 PT ONE: Understanding and drawing power from living things such as the earth and nature; to understand what it is to control death you must understand life first. 

— The composition of living organisms and the way magic can be drawn from them. 

— using plants and smaller organisms as practice of this skill — controlling the growth of a plant or organism in order to understand the necessary key points in control over the living.

 — understanding the ethical and moral implications and laws to apply to the idea that every cause has a reaction and a consequence. 

 PT TWO: The way the body changes following death. 

— drawing from what has already been learned comes a detailed understanding of the way the body shuts down and decays. ( will include the practice of watching an organism die ). 

— then comes the practice of using magic in order to cause said decay and wilting of a plant or organism to make note of the difference between drawing from life force and taking it away. 

— understanding the balance the world demands from death and or life magic.

  PT THREE: drawing from death and understanding that a dead organism flows within the system of the earth and that in most scenarios death in many ways equals life.

 — studying the patterns necessary to understand the magic required to control said organism including resisting and practicing hand movements along with a produced example ( done by the teacher and and student advanced enough ). 

— creating an orb of light drawn from the magic the is now pulled from the death of the organism.

This is the general thesis for years 1-7 following these understandings each year progresses onto a bigger organism, a bigger plant, and specimens such as toads or spiders. Years 8 through 10 will learn the more detailed art of control over the dead as listed below; 

 — understanding the history of Necromancy, both the darker and lighter sides as to show both the good and bad sides of such an art. 

 — understanding the spell work necessary and practicing the correct pronunciation; there is a complicated pattern to the way necromancy is done it’s hard to control the dead in the correct way without understanding all of it. 

 — a demonstration on a brief control over a specimen, with the request that the class attempt to keep there own moving and/or showing motor functions for at least 30 seconds. 

 — a brief mock exam on everything learned so far. 

 — once a student has mastered motor functions for at least 30 seconds, next will be the art of perfecting it for longer as if the dead specimen can once again function and/or walk around. 

 — understanding the spirit world and the way that can be used as a fuel to make the dead function for longer granted a brief demonstration and a closely watched practice regarding the subject is iffy to get too into. 

 — compulsion over half-dead things and their implications e.g. the effect in which it has on the mind should said attempt go wrong. 

— a demonstration over the compulsion of a living organism to demonstrate the cause of both correct compulsion and incorrect compulsion ( specimen used in this scenario will be healed afterward ).  

how did your muse become their species? were they born or made?

born.

( teachers ) is your muse an arcanas alumni? if yes, what house?

yes, house mentioned above.

was your muse recruited or did they enroll on their own accord?

enrolled on their own as a student and joined the teaching staff willingly later on in life.

what would your muse do if they found out that the zanzara orb was stolen from the armory?

report it to the headmaster as well as try to learn more regarding who would’ve stolen it and why. 

BIO:

Jude was born 89 years ago as the result of his mother’s affair with a man named Alistair Longmire, a Phoenix and a witch who practiced dark magic only to die consumed by it. Jude never got to meet his real father and was fairly fine with it given the reluctance to fall into the same habits as him.

His mother Antoinette Michaels married the man Jude would consider a true father for business purposes Nathaniel Montague was kind enough and the man who funded his money into beginning a business for the protection of witches and humans alike: a security task force of trained witches of any species and respected the idea of equality even weaving that into not only Jude ( the youngest ) but Jude’s older brother Charles whom Jude grew up in a feud with because their parents tended to favor Jude as the one who would eventually take over the business.

Prior to attending Arcanas Jude knew a brief amount of magic given that his parents and extended family tended to use it day to day, granted it wasn’t controlled and he did find himself accidentally blowing up and object or two in the early days which his brother would tell their Parents about to get him in trouble.

Charles was the first to attend Arcanas being two years older than Jude, Jude, of course, witnessed his brother’s struggle and then rise in popularity before he eventually attended and found himself sorted into Terberis ( earth ) house and didn’t have the same luck his brother did; he suspected it had something to do with rumors his brother passed around but it didn’t matter all too much because he did make one friend in his first days there.

James was someone Jude wondered upon, he was getting picked on and Jude stepped in and took the brunt of their attempts to harm James and from that point, they became fast friends; Jude truly found himself needing few others.

Jude was the top of his class for the majority of his subjects, granted that only heightened the fights between him and his brother.

By fifteen he recognized his feelings for James, though nothing ever came of them given that in the one opportunity he’d had to say something he hadn’t and then James went MIA and Jude was left none the wiser. He didn’t know if his friend was dead or had simply been transferred elsewhere but regardless it made him cold and closed off.

He kept to himself up until graduating Arcanas and found himself working briefly in a funeral parlor briefly, living an hour away from the home he grew up in with his cat Alfred and his paintings.

By the time his father was preparing to hand over the business, he met someone whom he let in for the first time in a long time and he did love this person until the truth came out. His brother had plotted with this person to be a distraction for Jude until his brother could get him in the right place at the right time and attempt to kill him ( because he certainly didn’t know what Jude was ).

At 25 he discovered he was a phoenix, he found himself sickened by his brother’s choices but their father’s business didn’t seem worth the hassle of fighting with his brother until they both found themselves old and alone. He allowed his brother the business on the promise of minimal contact and so that was settled.

He jumped around job-wise, had found himself at the jaws of death a few times before he would resurrect and by 48 he had decided that his role in life was to teach and help kids who were like himself or those he had known in the past.

PRESENT:

Became friends with Ansem over having mutual family issues in common and started out as drinking buddies until Ansem eventually made a move. They began seeing one another eventually ( recently too ) tied the knot and have been working through the starting place of married life; Ansem, his daughter Jade and by extension Kit and her cat Jessica moved into his haunted house.

CONNECTIONS:

Students he gets along with and who ask for extra work because they’re more advanced than their year ( 0/2 ).

Students who are in Terberis/Phoenix’s and whom he keeps a watchful eye on ( 0/5 ).

Teachers & Staff, he is friendly towards and drinks with ( Clayton & ( open ) ). 

Staff or Teachers, he happened to be friends with when he attended Arcanas ( limited to Vampires or those that have extended their aging ).