can reveal information (secrets, locations, illusions, the past and future) and read the history of objects through touch, wants to study magical theory and spellmaking after graduating and join the Mage's Guild post-education, appealed for a quest bc it would allow him to graduate earlier upon successful completion, has little interest in the practical applications of magic but deeply fascinated with the theoretical, powerful but not necessarily creative magic, knowledge-driven, understanding of theory more important than emotional response, also proficient with a bow (which confuses anyone who's spent more than five minutes with him) at the insistence of his magic-averse parents

intelligent and makes sure you know it, can be abrasive, exteremely introverted, throws himself into work to avoid dealing with responsibilities, absorbs knowledge like a particularly hungry sponge, acts like he doesn't care about anyone else but will literally die™ for his friends, terrible with emotions, tries to show his affection through gestures instead but is terrible at that too, feels the need to assume responsibility, knows everyone's secrets but is too awkward to do shit about it, independent and self-sufficient, needs to be competent, isolated, feels like a failure if he doesn't immediately know how to do something within two seconds of trying it for the first time, instead of burning the candle at both ends he just throws the whole thing into a fire and then collapses of exhaustion, wouldn't know self-care if it threw a bath bomb at his face