Thomas leva légèrement les sourcils, laissant tomber le morceau de craie qu'il avait utilisé dans le support en bas du plateau. Je crois que c'est un nouveau record pour le nombre de retardataires le premier jour de la classe. Syllabus est sur vos bureaux, j'espère que vous vous montrerez plus tôt dans le futur.
Il soupira, retourna sur son podium et changea des papiers dessus. Mais d'abord, puisqu'une grande partie de cette classe est à l'extérieur et non enseignée, j'aimerais que vos camarades de classe et moi en sachions au moins assez sur vous pour commencer une conversation. Donc... j'ai trois questions, et vous pouvez supposer qu'il y en a trois chaque jour dans cette classe avant de commencer le matériel. Rien de difficile, je vous assure, et rien n'a été noté."
Quel est votre nom, d'où venez-vous, et... pourquoi vous êtes-vous inscrit aux Études occultes? Gardez vos réponses appropriées. » Thomas sourit légèrement pendant qu'il continuait. Je suis Thomas Joren, je suis des Etats-Unis, et... je suis ici parce que je suis qualifié pour enseigner cette classe. Suivant.
Name: Thomas Joren, the Paper Mage
Age: 33
Gender: Male
Servant: … Hmm, we’ll see how this goes.
Powers/Abilities: A rather unorthodox mage, Joren is almost entirely dependent on two, simple resources for his magecraft: A writing utensil, and paper.
Remember the Name:
By writing a person or Servant’s name on a piece of paper, Joren can read their abilities and a few of their personal details. The amount of the name he has changes his power–a full name lets him see every ability, but just a first or last name gives him around half.
Words of Power:
By far his most useful ability, Joren is capable of writing a word on paper and summoning an item with it. Most have to be simple, or writing the description takes too long to be of use. This is how he does basic mage abilities like fireballs and the like: by describing them on a sheet of paper, then triggering the enchantment when necessary.
Bloodcasting:
In a pinch, Joren is capable of using his own blood as the material for writing his spells and as a source of mana. Such an effort, however, will cost him a huge amount of energy and will possibly kill him–so he’d much rather not use it. He can use the blood of others as well, though he must do it by physical contact with the fluid in question and he’s sworn to never use it.
Personality: Thomas Joren’s entire “thing” is caution, but complete and utter committal once he has decided on a course of action. He’s slow to make a decision, but once he begins he’s as unstoppable as a steam train going out of control. This often leaves him in a weakened position if he has to fight multiple enemies in a row as he’ll exhaust himself in attempts to utterly obliterate the first, but he’s careful to not get in over his head, and always seeks a less… Exhausting way to deal with them, ordinarily by trying to talk them down. He was probably picked for the grail war due to a desire for greater power that borders on an insatiable hunger.
Short Biography: Thomas Joren has a relatively ordinary heritage. He isn’t descended from any inordinately skilled mages and isn’t a member of a powerful family. His childhood was fairly ordinary for a magus, though the desire for power that marks him to this day arose early. He used paper as an early focusing medium for spells and his magic developed along those lines, granting him the power he so desired at the price of the flexibility other types of magecraft allow. Still, he was good enough at it to gain a teaching position at the University, becoming the instructor of Ritual Studies.
Other: Joren always carries a pen behind his ear, multiple ink cartridges, and two pads of notecards in his pockets.