The Mages

This page is about the series. For the group, see Mages. For the first installment of the series originally known as The Mages, see The Mages: Oracle.
The Mages is a series created by Jester, with potential for a comic adaptation in the future made by Hukara. The beginning of the series was released on August 15, 2021. On August 17, 2021, Jester announced that at least two more books would be written for the series, The Mages: Awoken and The Mages: Lazarus. Lore of the Worlds and The Mages are considered sister series.
==Synopsis==
The most powerful beings in the Multiverse try to maintain their domains and relationships with each other as an Oracle predicts betrayal.
== Plot summary==
===The Mages: Oracle===
In the year 10,000 BCE, the couple, Drasilia and Ankhor, are in their home Yggdrasil. Ankhor enters Dormancy to regain strength after keeping the Earth alive during the Ice Age. She is kept on the volcano upon Thera. Atori later sees this and in his grief begins to personally reap souls, to which it disembodies him. Later requiring him to create Logan in order to continue his work.
A recent visit to the Methuselah Star convinced Atori that he "wasn't good enough" to be a Mage. As such, he begins taking drastic measures like committing mass genocide and ecocide in a vain attempt to prove his worth. Methuselah sees this as too much and so tries to banish Atori. Atori turns on the Mages, breaking into the Star to try and see his future in the Table of Time. He fights for access to the Room Within; almost killing Drasilia. Saving almost enough energy to escape, though Methuselah banished him to The Afterlife before he could leave. The story ends with a brief exchange between Atori and Lazarus, the Afterlife Mage. They then begin an alliance.
===The Mages: Awoken===
In 1916, a World War I pilot, Charles Rayemont, gets caught in a fog and lands on the island of Thera. There, the Mage Ankhor is awoken from her Dormancy and takes care of Rayemont. There, the two get to know each other very well, as Rayemont begins to have feelings for Ankhor. In late-1917, a group of Ottoman fighter pilots drop bombs on Thera, horribly injuring Rayemont. He then begins to write his Dear Britain letter.
Meanwhile in the Afterlife, Atori and Lazarus are searching for alchemy ingredients in order to escape. The story ends in 1923 with the two finding the rare Appyaren leaf, a major ingredient in portalic magic.
===The Mages: Lazarus===
In 1923, Charles Rayemont stops writing his Dear Britain letter. He later dies in Ankhor's arms as he was about to confess his feelings for her. Slightly saddened, Ankhor decides it's time to return home to Drasilia. She ends up back at Yggdrasil, where Drasilia greets her lovingly.
By 1928, Atori and Lazarus had created the Four Horsemen, and harnessed an army of Deadsouls. Spending the years leading up to 1951 training for the escape.
At the Battle of Trafalgar Square, Stolas killed and Numaar injured by Lazarus, and Ankhor is killed by Atori. Drasilia, overcome with grief, releases a burst of energy that causes the city to crumble and all nuclear weapons to fire across the globe. The Battle of the Nether saw Drasilia trapping Atori and almost crushing Lazarus to death. Instead stabbing him and knocking him into the lava pit below, where he is banished to the Afterlife forever.
To be added.
===Drasilia and Ankhor===
Billions of years earlier, the first signs of life appear and Ankhor is born. Drasilia finds her and takes Ankhor to her home under a cliff to take care of her. They slowly form a romantic relationship before Ankhor is taken to Methuselah.
Some time later, the Miracle Pregnancy occurs, wherein Drasilia becomes pregnant and gives birth to Mellae, the Mage of the Sky and Sea.
== Reading Order ==
Internal Chronology
Book 	Released 	Beginning 	Ending
Drasilia and Ankhor	Unreleased 	4.1 billion BCE	300 million BCE
The Mages: Oracle 	August 15, 2021	10,000 BCE 	724 CE
The Mages: Awoken 	Unreleased 	1916 	1923
The Mages: Lazarus 	Unreleased 	1923 	1951
==Characters==
	Name 	Desc. 	The Mages: Oracle	The Mages: Awoken	The Mages: Lazarus	Drasilia and Ankhor
	Methuselah 	Leader of the Mages. A wise but overly cautious leader. The oldest Mage who is the Mage of Time. Possesses the Table of Time and resides in the Methuselah Star.
When he sees fit, Methuselah does not hesitate to do what's right, even when he eventually banished Atori after he threatened the safety of the Timeline. 	Yes 	Yes 	Yes 	TBA
	Atori 	Young, lonely, reclusive, and misunderstood Mage of Death. Raised by Drasilia and Ankhor and believed that their parenting kept him from achieving greatness and helping the world. After Ankhor's Dormancy, Atori began mass ecocide in his grief and the enormous reaping of souls subsiquently destroyed his physical form. Was later banished to the Afterlife by Methuselah.
Here, he meets Lazarus. They begin an alliance against the Mages and find a way to escape. Later creating the Four Horsemen. Atori then escapes for a moment and battles the Mages. Killing Ankhor and severely wounding Numaar.	Yes 	Yes 	Yes 	TBA
	Ankhor 	The kind, nurturing, surrogate mother of Atori and the Mage of Life. Spends most of the first story in Dormancy. Buried on the Greek island of Thera for 11,916 years. Later awakes in the year 1916, meeting Charles Rayemont. She takes care of him like she would anyone else, only leaving in 1928, five years after his death.
Reuniting with Drasilia, the Mages receive another oracle from the Table of Time. Revealed to be Atori and Lazarus' escape from the Afterlife. The Mages all fight with the two at the Battle of Trafalgar Square, wherein Ankhor is killed by Atori and comforted by Drasilia as she dies.	Yes 	Yes 	Yes 	Yes
	Lazarus 	A vengeful deity full of misdirected spite who is the Mage of the Afterlife. Longing to leave it, seizing the opportunity when Atori is brought to him. The two begin to find out a way to escape and take revenge. Finding the Appyaren leaf and utilizing it to escape.
At the Battle of Trafalgar Square, Lazarus severely injures Numaar and kills Stolas before escaping into the Nether. Where he fights a grief-stricken Drasilia who knocks him off the cliff into the lava lake and banished to the Afterlife for good.	No (small cameo) 	Yes 	Yes 	No
	Drasilia 	Strong yet emotional surrogate mother of Atori and the Mage of Earth. Deeply saddened when Ankhor was Dormant. Nearly killed by Atori before he was banished to the Afterlife. Later sending a message to Ankhor after sensing her awakening. The two reunite in 1923. Ankhor later being killed during the Overwars, leading Drasilia to go on a grief-stricken rampage. Severely injuring Atori and nearly killing Lazarus.	Yes 	No (mentioned) 	Yes 	Yes
	Kaethan 	Part of a long line of Ender Dragons. Mother of Hukara, former enemy and later partner Maylin. Mother of Maebel with Maylin after becoming pregnant. 	Yes 	No 	No 	No
	Numaar 	Intelligent, witty Mage of the Sun. Overseeing activities in the Solar System. Horribly injured during the Overwars. 	Yes 	No 	Yes 	TBA
	Mellae 	Fierce, cheerful Mage of the Sky and Sea. Daughter of Drasilia and Ankhor. Result of a Miracle Pregnancy. 	No 	No 	Yes 	Yes
	Stolas 	Responsible, reclusive Mage of the Galaxy. Sensed the dangers of the Table of Time's Oracle regarding Atori. Killed by Lazarus during the Overwars. 	Yes 	No 	Yes 	TBA
	Maylin 	Strong-minded Demigod of Simply Vanilla. Former enemy and later partner of Kaethan. Mother of Maebel as a result of a Miracle Pregnancy. 	Yes 	No 	No 	No
	Dragon Egg 	The developing Ender Dragon. Kaethan, Hukara and Maebel are notable examples. Hukara spent 1,300 years as an egg rather than the usual 25-30 years. 	Yes 	No 	No 	No
	Logan 	Originally a mindless puppet of Atori used as means of continuing his work, Logan was known as Scythe. Eventually gaining sentience years later and betraying Atori. 	Yes 	No 	No 	No
	Hiro Ormera	The mortal human from the Outskirts who found himself the caretaker of Hukara as the Dragon egg. The Ormeras later passing the egg down as an heirloom until 2006 when Hukara hatched. 	Yes 	No 	No 	No