Atreides aurait eu une ligne dure et désagréable prête pour le garçon qui a insisté pour les suivre si Crimson n'avait pas obtenu son attention. Le bruit l'a fait dessiner sa lame à temps pour voir l'ours rugir dans les bois après eux. Le pire, ou la meilleure partie, était qu'il avait une Relique de Légende dans sa prise oculaire. La mauvaise nouvelle, cependant, était-elle apparue non morte à un certain degré, et était massive. Il était donc peu probable qu'il soit facile de descendre et qu'il s'agisse d'une énorme cible. Partiellement bon, partiellement mauvais alors.
"Crimson, garde son attention. Hé, gamin, essaie de ne pas être un fardeau."
Flottant la lame, il fit un geste de sa main dans un sens aigu, vers le bas et, avec une phrase brouillée, fit descendre un boulon de tonnerre sur l'Ours. C'était un sort de base, mais il était très efficace pour son coût de base et sa formation. De retour pour laisser les deux autres travailler, il s'agenouille sur son épée, traçant une série de runes au-dessus de la lame tout en murmurant assez fort pour être entendu.
"Educ Flamma purgatio, ut labore et mercator decumbentem defricabitur mors ab hoc saeculo."
L'épée explosa dans les flammes, et Atreides se leva, faisant une ligne d'abeille vers l'ours dans la pleine intention de brûler la chose en cendres maintenant, en conjurant une boule de feu dans sa main, dans l'intention d'intimider autant que détruire l'ours damné et prétendre que le bijou de la poche de ses yeux. L'argent appelait, après tout.
Name: Alexander Atreides
Age: 37
Personality: Taskmage Atreides might be described as sarcastic, disrespectful to anyone who attempts to assert superiority over him, bitter and jaded to the world as a whole. They would not be wrong, but they would not know the whole picture of the Taskmage either. Wandering the lands of the Imperium, doing work for whomever needed his services hardens a man to the suffering and pain the world has. The first to reply to an insult or taunt with a sardonic and often times venomous reply, one would be surprised to note that when the Taskmage takes someone under his protection and tutelage, nothing short of complete obliteration stays his hand when it comes to bettering said person. Such unshakeable loyalty made him a popular hired hand, since once he took the money, he didn't betray his employer until the job, as listed per contract, was complete and someone paid him more to form a new contract. So despite his sardonic comments, his often times unlikeable statements and displeasing aura he seems to have, Atreides is not one to abandon the few that earn his loyalty rather then buy it, regardless the cost to himself.
Weapons:
+Luna (Detailed in main image): A blade forged with equal parts magic and forge work, this weapon is his primary means of fighting in hand to hand, and his only means of armed combat outside his magic. Due to its unique forging process, it acts as a natural focus and can channel both his ritual magics and actual combat spells when in a bind.
+Khopesh Blade: An enigma of a weapon, Atreides refuses to explain the weapon or why he carries it when it serves no purpose that Luna, his main sword, could not possibly do better. It is completely immune to any spells he has ever attempted to cast on it, some far more powerful effect deflecting any overriding enchantments from his rituals, but it never seems to leave his person. Even when lost, its back in his pack within a few hours when no one is looking.
Abilities (Magic):
Taskmage: Rather then specialize in any one specific arcane art, Taskmages are expected to be able to act as the jack of all trades, when referenced against the arcane practitioners of the realm. This comes as a twin edged blade, some seeing an advantage, others, a grave disadvantage. Taskmages will rarely best enemy wizards in the field the hostile mage has dedicated him or herself to, however, Taskmages can command a far greater, and wider, variety of spells without any more training than most normal mages, and generally have a knack for quickly copying spells for their own use, albeit taking time to bring them up to a well trained enough level to be dangerous. Generally, only one to three spells from any one school of magic might be known at any one time, although legends of the predecessors to modern Taskmages make stories of men and women capable of utilizing advanced magic from many different schools, after many years of application and training.
Current Schools Utilized: Electromancy, Geomancy, Pyromancy
Ritualistic Magic: As many times as a Taskmage might be hired to join a Mercenary band to provide a versatile hidden weapon, they are as often hired to prepare and enact various rituals that more dedicated archmages are too busy, or ask too high a price, to do. Protective wards, weapon enchanting, tracking spells, Ritual Magic is generally not seen as a in combat viability for the most part, instead used to prepare for combat before hand, runes and phrases prepared to trigger the effects stored by the rituals. Usually, even with prior preparation, a lengthy phrase must be recited to trigger a rituals effect.
Current Known Rituals:
Weapon Empowerment: (Atreides can currently only activate these on his own specially prepared blade)
+Ignis (Engulfs the Weapon in flames, Atreides most preferred and his go to enchantment)
+Umbra (Cloaks the weapon in shadow, creating an afterimage which reduces enemies ability to defend against following attacks)
+Sol (Encases the weapon in holy Light, highly effective against unholy and daemonic beings. Can also act as an impromptu torch)
Raise Barrier: Arcane (Made of pure energy, vice terraforming or utilizing surrounding natural elements)
Track Object: Living (Supplied with a piece of the target's body, such as hair or fingers, he can glean a general direction in which the target fled. The fresher the sample, the more effective and accurate the tracking is. Only works on targets alive at the time of casting.)
Other: Taskmage Atreides appears to be blind in his right eye, even without the eyepatch covering it, and refuses to discuss the circumstances leading to this happening to anyone besides one specific person.