My hero, Katherine, is a fast talking, overconfident wizard in training from the Northern Province of Ethès. She won't hesitate to speak her mind and is easily goaded into violence, and as a result is often kicked out of the bars she frequents. She is very much in-tune with her physical self, and as a result is naturally talented in Elemental magics, as opposed to magics that are centered around the Mind and Soul.
When the Eastern Armies marched on the Northern, Central and Southern Provinces, Katherine was forced to evacuate her home to the Central Province with her mother. There, in Zojiri, the Capital of the Center, she runs into the Illustrious Byron of Salentios, a powerful wizard who mastered all three magical branches at the age of 19. Noticing that Katherine has incredible magic power without any proper training, Byron takes her under his wing to help her unlock her full potential, much to the irritation of the apprentice he had already taken on. With the approval of her mother, Katherine takes up residence in Byron's laboratory in Patrid, and begins her life as an apprentice wizard alongside Erebos, the most insufferable Easterner she's ever met.
The villain, Erebos is the proud, stuck up, great-grandson of Spyridon, the founder of the Jenpa Academy of Wizardry (the JAW) in Eastern Ethès, and will not hesitate to remind you of this if you try to cross him. If you have the impression that this is the only thing he can possibly brag about, you're wrong, as his knowledge of the Magic of the Soul, which revolves around Illusions and the Exertion of Will, is wonderful for his ripe age of 28. Although, he did have to go through 12 years of training at the JAW to accomplish this feat (as most wizards without exceptional natural talent often do, [he often neglects to acknowledge this]). Spoiled and lazy, Erebos uses his magic to accomplish any task he deems "un-challenging", such as sweeping the floors with telekinesis. In order to teach his son humility and discipline, Erebos' father sends him to Byron for an apprenticeship. Under Byron, Erebos is stripped of all the luxuries of his past life, and has to learn to use a broom properly, while studying the other branches of magic.
When Katherine arrives, Erebos is disgusted by her. He views her as barbaric, and refuses to acknowledge her as a person due to her Northern heritage, and lack of education. As he was one of the few members of his family who was not naturally good at Physical Magic, Erebos' disdain of Katherine is intensified even more. As a result, Erebos will intentionally try to distract Katherine from her studies, and they often get into fights, which are not always broken up by Byron, leaving his house a grand mess.
(( I didn't fill out a character sheet for Byron yet, so I actually can't say much about him, sorry! ))
I spent way too much time on this, and that's ok.
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