Court Mage
Solstice Empire
Pronouns he/him Age 41 Likes Court politics, Hand-bound spellbooks
Base stats
Level 1 base, and the Level 60 projection. Stats grow ~10% of base per level (HP/ATK/DEF); Speed does not scale with level, so a fast hero stays fast relative to the field all game.
Element matchups
Water heroes resolve their type advantage like this:
Advantage is ×1.30, disadvantage ×0.75. See the full type chart →
Signature abilities
Detailed ability breakdowns
These signature abilities now fire in battle with their own damage and cooldowns — a bigger skill or ultimate hits harder, and the two healers restore HP instead of striking. Still on the way here on the site: the full per-ability breakdown (exact multipliers and effects), plus deeper mechanics like status effects and multi-target hits.
Lore
The Court Mage holds the imperial title of Glyph Architect, a position the Crown Council reserves for the spellsmith who phrases the empire's outward-facing magical decrees — the Solstice's published edicts, treaty enchantments, and hereditary court bindings. He is forty-one this season, the third-youngest holder of the title in the empire's recorded history, and the first non-noble appointee since the founding charter was rewritten two crowns ago. The Council confirmed him in a closed session and announced him in a public one; he understood, on the morning of the announcement, that the order of those two events was the entire substance of his actual job security.
His combat doctrine is built around the Prism Snare skill, an imperial-court working that takes a target's most-recent spoken statement and binds them to it for the engagement's duration — a literal-language lock that punishes equivocation. Outside the court the technique is rarely effective; on the field its hit-rate depends on whether the target said anything provocative within the last hour. The Celestial Comet ultimate the chronicles credit to him is, in his own description, an old Glyph-school descent-working he has been refining for nine years and would prefer to ship to a senior pupil before he uses it the tenth time. The Crown Council has heard this preference and has, on record, declined to appoint a senior pupil.
His political standing is more fragile than his title suggests. Two of the Council's seven seats are held by nobles who voted against his confirmation; one of those two has, in the last season, started forwarding routine glyph-review work directly to a junior court mage instead of to him, on grounds that seem procedural and aren't. He has not formally objected. He has, also without writing it down, started keeping personal carbons of every glyph-review draft that crosses his desk, in a hand-bound book the kind that is bookbinder-locked and cannot be opened by anyone whose blood the lock hasn't been keyed to. The bookbinder is a contact of Cassia Arden's. Neither he nor Cassia have spoken about this directly, but the bookbinder mentioned, the morning he keyed the lock, that a Crimson Hand handler had paid for the work in advance.
Bond stories
- The Order of the Two Announcements · unlocks at bond Lv 10
- The Bookbinder's Note · unlocks at bond Lv 25