Phytiax
Name: Phytiax Nazir Pandion
Phonetic pronunciation: /'pɑ:ndi:oʊn, 'pɪti:ɑ:eks nə'zɪə/
Titles: Mage Prince of the Izanti Empire and Omen Master
Age: Twenty-one years old
While Mage Prince Phytiax is furthest down the line of succession to his father’s throne, he is the first mage ever to gaze more than four hours into the future (without using an artifact.) This makes him the strongest omen master in the Empire, and perhaps the world.
A master swordsman with the scimitar, and a martial arts expert in both pankration and the secret way of the nerve. His father is the Mage Emperor, but their relationship is troubled, and his mother was assassinated. She was the daughter of the leader of the Nazir tribe from southern Gaia. His middle name honors her side of the family.
Read more in the glossary about Apateóno, Izanti Empire, Mage Killer, and Pandion, Jameelah.
Emilai
Name: Emilai Swan
Phonetic pronunciation: /swɒn, 'mɪleɪ/
Titles: Honored, Witch, and Arch of the Zhi’el
Age: Eighteen years old
Honored Emilai is a noble girl with a strong will. She is betrothed to the rich Baron Gillydam, whom she has never met. Emilai is the daughter of Sir Addan, a renowned knight of Lyom. Her mother died giving birth to her. Emilai has golden curls and blue eyes.
Pino
Name: Pino Di Pinto
Phonetic pronunciation: /'di: 'pɪŋtoʊ, 'pi:noʊ/
Titles: Mage Adept and All-Master
Age: Nineteen years old
The weakest mage in the world. Able to cast spells from all five magical disciplines. Because of his lack of magical strength, he was not allowed to graduate from Vandyldam University as a master. Instead, they made him a mage adept. Pino is believed (by some) to be a direct descendant of the ancient and powerful All-Masters, though his parents were commoners. His five siblings, including his older sister Isal and younger brother Peto, were killed by the rotting plague. His parents died later in a fire. The di Pinto family was well off because of Pino’s father’s horse-trading business. After university, he worked as a scroll scribe at the Royal Scroll Workshop in Siwton, working for Master Cordin. Pino is tall, slender, and good-looking, with thick chestnut hair that reaches his shoulders.
Cordin
Full name: Eflizer Cordin
Phonetic pronunciation: /koʊr'dɪn, f'laɪsɪə/
Titles: Light Master and mage
Age: Fifty-three years old
This white-haired Light Master owns the Royal Scroll Workshop. He spends most of his time traveling Lyom, searching for new spells. Master Cordin is a scholar and teacher, and his memory is extremely good, allowing him to remember hundreds of spells at a time, many of them not even light magic. While studying at Vandyldam University, he dreamt of inventing new spells and the wealth it would bring, or of becoming a warmage. He decided his dreams were too dangerous and never pursued them. Instead, he became an instructor teaching advanced light magic at the University of Vandyldam, where he became one of the youngest advanced magic instructors ever. He quit after the rotting plague claimed his wife Sina, his son Farli, and his father. Moving back to his childhood home in the village of Siwton over Delhearth, Cordin took over the family scroll business. He employs Mage Adept Pino di Pinto as his Scroll Scribe and the woodcarvers Toby and Shal.
Sulycan
Full name: Sulycan Don’mall
Titles: Duke of Don’mall, Pyramid King of Ilvart, Sulycan Rulturo
Age: Thirty-six years old
The sinister Ilvartian Pyramid King is tall, pale-skinned, dark-haired, and handsome. Grew up as the son of a rich Ilvartian duke. He became supreme ruler of Ilvart following a daring raid on the former Pyramid King Adgad’s Hall. This gave him absolute control of the country in one fell swoop. The Ilvartians respect and fear him. He is an extremely powerful mage. The young Sulycan displayed no talent for magic whatsoever, and secretly his father feared he would never do so. Once he gained magic in some mysterious way, he began to wear a gray robe, as is traditional for an Ilvartian Warmage of Death. He is, in fact, an All-Master, a secret only known to a few members of the Ilvartian army, mages who’ll gladly follow the charismatic Pyramid King to the ends of this world.
Celine
Full name: Celine Delhearth
Title: Lady of Delhearth
Age: Seventeen years old
She is willful, ambitious, ruthless, and very interested in magic. Lady Delhearth is the daughter of the Count of Delhearth and the little sister of the viscount. Her chaperone is her former nanny, Miss Giders, and Pino considers her the most beautiful girl in the county. She has platinum-blonde hair and blue eyes. Her mother died when she was a small child.
