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Characters Name: Kent Forest
Age: 20
Race: Reincarnated Human
Weapons: Large Paintbrush that he uses as a quarterstaff. On command it can shrink to the size of a normal paintbrush, or leak ink that hangs in the air.
Weapon/Fighting Skills: Kent is a very skilled in using his paintbrush in practice bouts, however he hasn't been in an actual fight for survival though. He focuses on quickness, feinting, and strikes to critical places.
Abilities: Kent uses a linguistic magic, making him a more general mage, dabbling in a variety of things but not a real master at anything. He is limited by what words/symbols he knows. Details below profile.
Current Symbols Known-
"Element"-grants a limited control over a random base element, fire, water, earth, or air for a limited time, ten minutes or less. Can make rough walls and throw elemental balls.
"Close"- magically locks doors, closes wounds, or mends rips or tears. This is rather patchy, so a person who had a wound closed should take it easy or it might open again.
"Name"- Allows him to see the lesser names of people with magic, or grant a person knowledge of his/her true name. Knowing a lesser name will allow him to target a person with magic(divination, etc.), but he can't do much with it at his current knowledge. Currently sees them as symbols, and a person who sees his lesser name would get a feeling of it being right for them, but slightly off for some reason they can't explain.
Family: Mother, Father, little brother
Biography: Likes- bread and cheese, practicing with his paintbrush, learning
Dislikes- secrets, being told what to do
Personality- Has an awed outlook on the world that hides an intense focusing capability.
Appearance-As picture, but without the crosses and with medieval clothing. Occasionally, symbols can be seen moving across his eyes.
Kent is a reincarnated soul. He doesn't remember his life before, but he knows he was killed when he was a child. He remembers his trip to the underworld, and being offered the chance to return to life if he allowed his body to play host to a long dead magic. He accepted and was born to his current parents.
Kent grew up in a small settlement of humans, where he grew up a fairly normal life, secluded from major magic and dragons. He always knew deep down that eventually he was going to have to leave, as he had a purpose to fulfill, and although he wasn't sure what that was, he knew he wouldn't be able to do it here. So he lived hard and had fun harder.
When he was eighteen, he started to change. He started seeing symbols occasionally, on objects or floating through the air. People would stop talking to him in mid conversation, saying they saw something moving across his eyes. He stopped his normal life, researching, puzzling, searching. He finally understood a few of the symbols, and with understanding came a power to use them. The town grew restless about him, even his own parents, so he left after he turned 20.
Linguistic Magic
There is a language that is, in and of itself, magic. Unlike magic incantations, which shape the magic within a person that allows it to be used, in this language, the words themselves provide the power. This allows a completely nonmagical being that knows this language to perform magic.
However, using the language is not just saying magic words, or writing magic symbols. It also requires a deep understanding of the meaning. This prevents just anyone from copying something to use it, requiring students to learn from someone who already knows, or from a dictionary-like magic tome.
Kent is an incarnation of this magic. He is the link between the language's power and the world, a conduit that allows the world to draw on the language's power. He also has a fairly large pool on which to draw on, but it drains him since he is the incarnation of the language. However, he doesn't know the language completely yet. Currently he only knows a few magic symbols, but will eventually learn more and get into the spoken language.
Possible History- This languages magic is linked to the world through an incarnation of itself in human form. It is passed on to other people, usually to the incarnation's children, but it can also be given to someone else. While teaching a new incarnation, they both share the power making them weaker than normal. Perhaps they were killed, and this magic language stopped working, so people developed an offshoot of it that used their own energy, as magic incantations and circles.
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