#mage lore

"Short answer: I have to.

Long answer: I was actually going to marry someone else. But they broke up with me because they were gonna have another mages kid. And because the local royalty is full of asses, I needed to be in a marriage or engaged. Asked Aladric out to shut them up, seal the mountain full of monsters, and to get people off my back.

Some mage variants are able to add some "boosting" spells like speed to their skills; like Raider for example is able to "zip" himself around in a blink of an eye with his Electric magic (think a bit like DC Flash's lightning speed effects).

Many centuries ago, back in the days of ancient mage customs, lived a girl born simply as “Lenoira Crane”. A feisty little one who grew up by the docks with her fisherman father, she often helped him by the boats via using her water magic to capture fish. While they didn’t have much money (thus no means to send Lenoira off to school), Lenoira and her father at least had eachother to keep their spirits up. Which made it all the more tragic when they were ambushed by pirates one day while at sea, costing the life of Lenoira’s father when he refused to give into their demands.

Surviving through sheer resilience with what was left of their boat, Lenoira swore revenge in honor of her father, by becoming a pirate in her own right. Proving persistent enough to track down and enact her revenge on the same crew that took her father away, the now-empty ship became Lenoira’s to reclaim… under her new moniker of “Victress Noira” (often known by other variant like “Noira the Victress” or simply just “Victress”)

The next few years of Victress Noira’s life became filled with cutthroat piracy, earning her many admirers and enemies at the same time. One fight on the high seas proved risky enough to throw her off her own ship… seeming to spell certain death if it weren’t for a beautiful, fish tailed-figure saving her life...

The details of this gets lost in the Crane family passages, but what’s most known is that this “savior” would be the first and only to have stolen the Victress’ heart… as she returned to her crew later on in not just perfect health, but a whole bundle of children to carry on her legacy.

Many more years would pass… but eventually, even the Victress couldn’t stay on the waves forever as she grew older. Retiring her family and all her prized treasure to a remote island), her children would eventually venture off on their own pursuits while the Victress took her final, peaceful breaths in her sleep (her beloved from the waves not too far behind her nearby)…

The Victress’ legacy stayed strong in many more generations to come down the line, from her namesake becoming the stuff of campfire legends, to even her water magic seeming the most present now in her current (and youngest) descendant… Noira~ 💙

From the ancient beginnings of Faes bestowing humans with their own magic, Mages have evolved to develop their own type of magical force known as an “Aura”, to act as the key to unlocking what their eventual form of magic will grow to be like. 

Auras are usually detected from in the womb by a mage doctor’s enchanted mirror (the TTM-equivalent to an ultrasound monitor), and can come in a variety of types ranging from bold and fiery (Fire mage), calm and cooling (Water mage), firm and peaceful (Earth mage), bright and warming (Light mage), bleak and foreboding (Dark mage) and so on... 

Though normally expected for each mage to carry their own unique and individual Auras, sometimes there will be a case where a Mage parent will end up passing down an Aura of their own that will lead to the child developing near-identical powers. In this case, it’s a phenomenon called an “Aura-bond” which in most cases will cause both parent and child to form an emotional bond that is especially strong on a deep, psychological level. Their levels of magic tend to flare up more if they team up in battle, feeling empathetic with their feelings more often then not, and such a connection could even allow them to sense when the other’s at risk for being in danger long before it actually happens. 

Some examples of this Aura-bond phenomenon happening among the current cast includes Prym, Tula and Aevri with their fathers (Luka, Ivor and Riu, respectively), Autem with her father Elken, Hakem with his mother Furaha, Tawnie with her mother Gladionna, Kaz with his father (even though Kaz never technically “met” him before), and many more unexplored as well. 

Noah is the High Mage of Kindness. He is a hunter and the youngest of the group being 18 years old. He's usually very mature but has a tendency to revert into a more childish level under certain conditions.

Combat wise, Noah has little to offer in magic and usually resorts to normal weapons such as knives and bow and arrows. He's excellent at tracking people, he's resourceful, and has a talent for crafting makeshift traps, items, and weapons out of whatever materials and objects in the immediate area.

When it comes to magic, Noah usually carries a bag with various seeds and saplings that he can quickly grow with his magic to alter the environment to his advantage. Noah can create temporary shields to protect his allies. As the shields take damage it chips away at his own energy and if he doesn't drop them before they shatter, they render him unconscious. He's also skilled at healing magic but, like his shields, the more he uses it to help people, the more it drains his own life energy. Because of these trade offs he tends to rest a lot, doesn't handle extreme stress well, and usually has to rely on conventional weapons rather than magic.