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"Hey, bitch!"
Impulsive ✦ loud ✦ protective ✦ friendly ✦ dumb as shit
First and foremost, Nate is an incredibly -- and I do mean incredibly -- over the top person. He’s very in your face, obnoxious, and boisterous, always putting 200% of himself into everything he says and does. To put it simply, he has theatre kid energy. You know what I mean. He’s loud as hell, and even if he knew how to reel himself in (he doesn’t) he simply would not! He just wouldn’t. He is incredibly confident in himself, so why would he!
Nate is also as dumb as a microwaved potato, in that way where he has a handful of things he knows really, really well (like, say, swords) and can infodump at you like a walking wikipedia article about, and that’s it. He has brain cells allocated to those things, and the rest don’t exist. He’s so fucking stupid. I don’t know how else to explain this, he’s just literally an idiot. However, he is the type of idiot who says things wrong with his whole chest because he thinks he is so fucking clever.
All of this being said, Nate is most importantly shaped like a friend. Delinquent adjacent punk demeanor aside, Nate is a ridiculously friendly and kind person, and just all around a good guy. It’s not hard to make friends with him, and he tends to be incredibly protective of the people he gets close to -- and even towards people he’s not that close to, honestly. He tends to throw himself on the line for people more often than not. Congratulations on your new guard dog!
I, the undersigned, hereby agree to follow the charter of walpurgis and all rules therein:
Magic
Area of Expertise
Odin’s Eye prides itself in a technique developed over many, many, many years that is used to manifest and condense a witch’s magical energy into magical constructs of their choice. For the order, this is most often the form of a weapon to use in combat, but it can be applied to other forms as well with enough training. The use of a specific large sigil as a magical focus and conduit is necessary for this, and is drawn on a member’s skin until they complete the first stretch of their training at age 16, at which point the sigil is magically branded deep into their skin.
As for Nate’s family’s magic itself, it’s a very base form of pure magical energy. Given the fact that it has no real focus, it is best used for enchantments that have other factors (such as sigils) to create the focus, and just need the magical energy itself. Other than that, it can be used to enhance the natural abilities and properties of things, and more importantly, of Nate himself.
Abilities
Magical Constructs
Nate is able to form his magic into magical constructs, and more specifically into magical weapons. With his particular type of magic, these weapons are hardier and generally just stronger/more efficient than a regular weapon of their type would be. He favors differing kinds of swords and shields, and other similar bladed weapons. Technically, Nate can form other things as well, though he generally just doesn’t.
Enhancement
Nate is able to expend his magical energy in order to magically enhance the natural properties of things or people. For example, he could take a pool noodle and temporarily make it hard enough to break something with, or he could make someone a bit faster. Generally, he uses this for himself in the context of fighting. He can also sort of act as a… Well, a magic battery, really. His magic has no extra properties to it, so it’s pretty good for adding to the mix when you just want some extra magical oomf.
Using his magic to enhance things other than himself requires he either actively be touching whatever or whoever it is, or he can embue some of his magic to extend the enhancement into them when not actively touching them. If he used up quite a bit of magic for this, an enhancement can last up to six or so hours before wearing off, and it scales back from there.
Enchantment
His magic can be easily utilized for enchanting things… If you’re not him, anyway. But if someone else has some sigils or items that need enchanting, then he’s your guy to ask for the help! Just tell him what to do. Please. He doesn’t know how to do this on his own.
Limitations
His magical constructs will last pretty much until they’re either forcefully dismantled, he dispels them himself, or Nate is rendered unconscious. They’re made of his own magical energy, so when he has them formed and with him, his own magic and energy isn’t really depleted.
While his arsenal of magical weapons is theoretically unlimited, it doesn’t quite work like that. For starters, he’s only as good with a magical weapon as he is with the real thing. He’s had training with a number of things, but certainly not everything, and favors closer combat things like a sword and shield to, say, a bow and arrow or a whip. Also, no, he does not know how to make a magic gun. That’s too many parts--
Which brings me to my second point, in that Nate does have to practice with making the constructs. He needs to know what it is he’s making, which is part of why swords are his go to -- because he has a lot of training with them, and also, he really likes swords! He can’t just make things he doesn’t know. And with the bow and arrow and anything similar, the projectiles fired do deplete his magic over time, so he can’t really use them indefinitely (and thinks they’re a bit inefficient in the long run.)
As for his magic itself, he doesn’t just have an indefinite supply of magical energy. When using it for enchanting things, it will deplete over time. I don’t really know how to quantify the time vs. how much is used into numbers, so let’s just say it’s… Reasonable and touch and go with what makes sense during rp so it’s not OP :) He’ll need a nap. Also, he’s too stupid to be good at sigils, so he can’t really do that part on his own.
And with enhancing, he can only enhance one quality of something or someone at a time. Can’t be faster and stronger at the same time!
Familiar
Nate’s familiar, Hati, is a variety of hellhound that is more wolfish in build and appearance. He’s roughly the size of your average gray wolf, if not just a little bit bigger, and as you might expect from most magical familiars, is a bit smarter than the average wolf as well.
Hati has been Nate’s familiar since he was 12, which is the age that all members of Odin’s Eye acquire their familiar. The process involves summoning a magical creature in a ritual that includes the initiate’s blood, and then the initiate must tame the creature. So that’s how that happened! And also part of why they’re magically connected. Hati has always sort of acted as Nate’s impulse control when he can. Can you say: nanny dog?
As far as his own magical abilities, the only thing that really sets Hati apart from a normal wolf aside from just ~being magical~ is the ability to be sort of… Ghosty and intangible. While a lot of humans will explain him away as a Huge Fucking Dog, it also helps to sometimes just go unseen.
Personal Lore
History
Early Life
Getting into Nate’s life takes a bit of context that starts much earlier than him. Centuries ago, five magic wielding knights banded together to create Odin’s Eye: an order of people who sought to maintain balance in a world of unbalanced power. Wherever chaos and injustice lurked, Odin’s Eye would find and put an end to them both. Their kin would take on this mission, and though one knight may die, Odin’s Eye remains ever watchful even to this day… Or so the stories go, anyway. These days, it’s fairly disputed whether or not the fantastical tale of magical knights that apparently still exist is in fact just a fantastical tale.
But I can tell you that it’s not! Yay! Factually, Odin’s Eye has always existed and does still exist, and consists of the same five witching families that it started with. Also factually, Odin’s Eye seeks out magic users (most often other witches) that intend to harm innocents (magical and human alike) for more power, as well as dangerous magical items that could cause serious harm if left in the wrong hands. They have a lot of funky traditions, as well as highly intensive… Let’s just call it training. It takes a lot to be a knight.
Unsurprisingly since it’s in his backstory, Nate is the current youngest member of one of said witching families. Just for logistical purposes of where the fuck he lives and has lived, Nate’s dad (og Odin’s Eye member) moved to Quebec from France, where he married his mom and they had Nate. Yay!
Growing up in a secretish order of funky magic knights is a bit fucking much as it turns out, but honestly? Nate was into it. The idea of prevailing justice and protecting people was entirely his jam, so he didn’t mind the grueling training. Is it morally correct to train children in combat and magic? Good question!
So yeah he does that. Very cool. He’s not allowed to help with guarding the magical artifacts, because duh. Nate takes to his training very easily, and honestly excels! At some point he goes into his, yknow, rebellious phase, because he thinks the old people who make up the order’s “authority” as it were are too slow on the jump and reactive instead of proactive. Calm the hell down, they say. No <3 he says. He will regret this as soon as I go to the next backstory section.
Moving to Walpurgis
Nate gets a little too proactive and accidentally causes a scene somewhere. Like, trying to deal with a very magical situation almost in public. Nobody really figures anything out because I think Olwin would tell him “no you can’t live here actually” if they did, but 1) he accidentally gets himself a very human warrant for his arrest for some destruction of property and 2) the order is not very happy with him! Nate, you dumb little bitch! We said calm down! Haha oops, says Nate.
So, they tell him to go settle down in the nice little town of Walpurgis for a bit while they try to sort that out for him since they can’t exactly have him sitting in jail. Fittingly, they’ve been wanting to get an eye on the place anyway. Two birds one stone!
Present Day
Nate has been in Walpurgis for about a month at the time of writing this (April 22), and lives in a flat with probably a roommate in the town center. At some point, for some god awful reason, he was offered a managing position at the nice little ice cream shop. Samael, why would you do that? Really, he is just kinda vibing. Obnoxiously. He brought his electric guitar with him and is newly offended every time someone asks him what a chemical romance is.
Race Lore
Witches have existed since humans first got their hands on magic. After centuries of studying and perfecting the manipulation of magic, their abilities have grown more and more potent within their close family groups. Keeping their bloodlines intact and strong is a high priority of most traditional Witching families, and they take great care with who they allow into their line. While most witching families follow a matriarchal hierarchy, the witching families of Oden's Eye don't put any stock into gender when it comes to in family politics and the sort.
While Witches have an innate talent with magic and can perform small amounts without a conduit, they often choose to channel it through an object such as a focus, a wand, a crystal ball, etc., to stabilize the spell and amplify its power. They have the potential to learn most types of magic with enough time, but are usually more adept at the specific branch their family has studied for generations. This has led to several smaller subsets of Witches, such as those at focus on blood magic, divination, enchantment, illusion, shadows, or any other subject.
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