Merek Black

*A Wizard of the White Council*

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Merek is known as a Wizard with the White Council. While he's new to magic compared to others, he has managed to meet the standards for the Council. He wishes to become a Warden, with the Council.

## Personality

Merek is a kind person that often wishes to learn as much as he can when it comes to things. His magic practices are often to assist people, while he also likes collecting hobbies as well.

## SKILLS

Merek was taught about alchemy, though it is mostly the basics. He can make a few potions which have the affects of his magic, mostly meant to be used with assistance for healing and working with any elemental power. He requires a place to prepare these, often meaning he will work it while he's at home or with the other Wizards.

Merek knows a fair bit about personality and also the use of that for diplomacy. He often tries to be friendly with people. He knows a bit of the ways personality can assist in many things also.

Merek practices a few martial skills, as well as being useful with swords as well as firearms. This is mostly the basics, which has uses if he can't use his magic, and would like to keep a low profile.

Merek knows how to cook from when he was more independent as a Wizard. He's picked it up, while he learns a bit more about cooking skills from Piper also.

Merek learned how to dance from lessons that his family supported. He is skilled with many forms, from moderns to the classics. He often tries to practice with those he is friends with.

Merek knows quite a bit about enchanting, and he can use this with a magic focus so that he can create enchantments. This focus can be used to enchant weapons as well as many other things. It can also add extra effects to his alchemy and his transformation magic.

Merek knows a lot about fashion, from the kind which is used by most people, to the fashions that the Supernaturals usually wear. He can find a way to wear which fashion will best assist a situation.

Merek knows some of the basics about Incantation. This is one of the methods of magic, which he uses with the main language Enochian.

Merek is aware of the basics of magic which is used by the White Council, as well as the Practitioners from traditions that people know. He also has the basic knowledge of what Supernaturals also exist, though he doesn't look to know a lot about them also.

Merek's basic knowledge of magic is quite skilled; although he knows quite a bit about magic, most of his magic is still a bit basic. He can put it into his practice with skill, and he often manages his magic well, but it doesn't make him know how to use more, just to put to practice what he knows.

When it comes to ritual magic practices, his skill is only Novice level. Merek knows some of the basics about Rituals. This is mostly a method which he can use to create and also use his magic. This requires resources to use, and it also includes the use of runes as well as sigils.

Merek picked up the skills of smithing while with his family. With this, he can make things with his metals if he has access to a forge and materials also.

Merek has picked up basics of survival skills while in the wilderness away from most communities when magic still was not working with the technology of that place. It's a skillset of how to hunt and to survive in Urban and Wild settings also.

Merek knows that with magic, someone also requires the practice of their willpower. While this has a use as assisting with the magic, it also means that one can manage diplomacy with many of the Supernaturals that most humans might not manage as well.

## CASTING

Merek knows more than just the basics of divination. This magic is the kind which is used to research the use of magic not like his, as well as to locate things, to use as a basic magic sense as well. He can use this to also enhance his basic senses also.

Merek's favorite magic is perhaps that which is more an elemental kind. While not skilled with any one form, he does have the ability to control most basic elements, even the ones that aren't often considered any of the classics. At basic skills, this isn't useful with combat, though he often makes use of the magic for its utility.

Merek knows a bit about the magic Evocation. He doesn't have a lot of control with this magic, so he's learning with it, and doesn't use it often. This is used to create the effects of some elemental magic which he uses.

This is one of the few magics that Merek is skilled with. While often used with his alchemy, he can use the methods which he knows like Incantation as well as Rituals to heal people from most things.

Merek knows a bit about basic illusion magic. Mostly, this is to protect people from view, and also to create when used with his forms of magic which he knows also.

Merek knows a bit about the mental form of magic. He knows most of the basic mental wards, as well as the ability to influence minds. He can use this to interact telepathically with people.

Merek knows a bit about the magic of spirits. This is knowledge of the magic's basics, which is used with runes as well as ritual magic, and with some basic incantations he can make some uses of that also.

Merek knows basics about transformation, which he uses his alchemy for creating materials. He can additionally use this to transform people. While he can use basics with most foci, it requires rituals to achieve some uses of the magic.

Merek knows about the magic which is used with transporting people. Often, this is for the use of rituals to travel to realms that are easier to find, as well as to travel from place to place with the use any of his methods as well.

## POWERS

Merek was born with the power to have portentous dreams. Though he doesn't have the ability to use it at will, he can dream about things that assist him with situations that require knowledge and lore. It's often metaphorical, which is meant more to guide rather than to talk of the situation itself.

Merek uses some of his magic to give him powers that are known as telekinetic. This is not the magic, but more of the skill he has learned to use, that comes from the enhanced senses of his magic as well as his family also.

This is not the magic form of warding, and doesn't need to have a useful foci. It is mostly a set of magical powers he has picked up from the Vale, classic methods like the use of sigils as well as rituals to ward away powers. While easier to be used, all wards require a form of study also.

## ADVANTAGES

Merek has equipment that is useful for many situations. From basic weapons to equipment that assists with crafting. Some of this is classic, as well as also modern things.

Merek has crafted a sword which is made with magic metals. This black sword is decorative and is useful for combat magic, which is used as a kind of foci that can focus evocation and elemental magic within it for combat. It doesn't make his magic any better, but when wielding it, he can use his magic with the weapon to focus on combat also.

Merek is from a wealthy family that come from France. He has funds that are available from them, and assets which he can also use.

Merek knows what it takes to talk with those from many social classes. He knows quite a bit about negotiating with people, as well as making people happy as well. House Black taught the man to use his social skills with people also.

Merek's a member of the Wardens with the Council, which is allowed to enforce many Laws of Magic under their authority and in their name, so far as they go. He is considered a warrior within the more military side of the Council.

## WEAKNESSES

Merek is kind, and not just with the usual sense of the word. He is diplomatic, even when it is known that such will not be useful. He also prefers to not fight save in self defense. He will try his best with most situations to protect all sides. While this is a useful thing to known in some situations, also it can keep him from being that useful in combat also.

Merek's dream abilities also mean that he often has a few nightmares. While he's able to manage it well enough, it does affect him. Often these nightmares are related to things which he has portentous dreams about.

If a wizard swears a sacred Oath, which is done by swearing on their own magic or their own power, then they are bound to keep it. If they break such an Oath, then their magic will be severely crippled, reduced to Basic power level at most, and will remain so for months or years afterward. Breaking an Oath sworn on one's power breaks that power, to an extent, and it takes a very long time and hard work to heal such a break.

Merek was born to Melanie and Derek Black in San Francisco. His family has a few connections to the Fae as well as the Wizards of the White Council, mostly from dealing with them when it came to merchant business. He was brought up with many friends, though his family was often teaching him magic, so that when he was an adult, he could work towards joining the White Council of Wizards.

Merek's training with the magic, was successful enough that he met the standards of the Council. He is seeking to establish new diplomacy with the Fae, as well as looking to become a Warden. While he knows a fair few magics, his skill is quite basic with most of them, and he has a lot to learn with the Supernatural also as well.

Logs featuring Merek Black:

* 2019.01.19 - The Siege of Rowanwood: 1
* 2019.01.19 - The Siege of Rowanwood: 3
* 2019.01.20 - Battle Aftermath 1: Tending the Wounded
* 2019.01.22 - The Council of the Vale
* 2019.01.25 - Waking Up At Rowanwood Late: Kiara
* 2019.01.26 - Through the Eye of the Needle
* 2019.01.29 - The Newborn Army
* 2019.02.10 - Into the Mists
* 2019.02.11 - Curious Goods
* 2019.02.18 - Cutscene: Into the Black Lodge--Cold Night, Crimson Walls, Dark Shadows
* 2019.02.26 - Cutscene: Into the Black Lodge--Looking Glass
* 2019.02.27 - The End of the Apocalypse
* 2019.02.28 - White Council: Dawnsong