Alustin Haber

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Alustin is one of the main characters in the Mage Errant series and later one of the antagonists.

## Alustin Haber

Alustin was the mentor who took Hugh, Sabae and Talia as apprentices. He took them on seeing that the Skyhold magical education system failed them and he wanted to prove that they could be effective mages. He and Artur Wallbreaker later train Hugh, Sabae, Talia with Artur's son Godrick after the 4 students become a team for the labyrinth test. He was born in Helicote and trained to succeed his father. He is a skilled mage despite his paper magic being considered worthless. When his paper affinity manifested he was sent away as his magic was disregarded as useless. He also has the rare farsight affinity and over a long time developed an ink affinity. With his paper and ink affinities he is called a book mage. He is also a skilled sword fighter due to his training in Helicote. He seeks the destruction of the Havath Dominion above all else. Pre-series he is known to have ignored Kanderon's commands in order to take revenge in Havath and during the series, certain characters are wary of him doing so again. Alustin is a powerful archmage. Alustin is officially dead, killed by Kanderon for his crimes but Alustin was saved by Kanderon and is being sent off Anastis to gain power and fight otherworldly empires.

## Appearance

Alustin is a tall, thin man with scruffy brown hair. He has brown eyes and looks little more than 30. He carries around a small bag that he convinces people is an extra-planar storage with a combination of slight of hand and his storage tattoo.

## Personality

Alustin is an intelligent, charismatic man who likes to play up certain aspects of his personality in order to confuse people. He enjoys sharing knowledge and talking about farming. He has a flair for the dramatic. He can talk about something for hours whilst not paying any attention to what he is saying. He often rambles on and people tend to be less worried about him. He is very charismatic and witty, but also secretive and manipulative. He often teases and challenges his apprentices, but he also cares for them and helps them grow. Alustin hates Havath so much that he was willing to kill Kanderon once he realised that she would leave them alive after crippling them as part of her multiversal games. He was willing to hurt Hugh to kill Kanderon after this discovery as his hatred is far above his affection for his students. He finds it immensely fun to kill Havathi mages and coming up with new ways to kill them. Over time, Alustin has become consumed by his revenge. Alustin is, without a doubt, a genius, he comes up with magical innovations no-one else would and is has no specific area where all his talents lie. He singlehandedly learned the entire bureaucratic system of Havath and managed to subvert it by himself to destroy it. He named this after the mythical spell cast by the Lord of Bells "The Last Echo of the Lord of Bells". He also admits to being insane. Alustin found it easy to banter and exchange hurtful exchanges with Valia when they fought but he struggled when they came to have an actual conversation.

## Abilities

### Paper Affinity

Alustin uses his paper affinity to rapidly produce origami golems, armour, glyphs and spellforms. He was considered useless as a child as he developed a paper affinity but he can use it to great effect in combat with lots of preparation time. His techniques were inspired by Anders who performs similar magic with his silk. He manipulates paper covered in glyphs to attack his enemies as his paper can cut through people without slowing down.

### Farsight Affinity

A farsight affinity is rare and it allows Alustin to see places far away. However, he can not hear anything from the location he scries. So he learned how to read lips so he could gather more information.

### Ink Affinity

Developing his ink affinity allowed him to start altering documents over hundreds of leagues which he was incapable of doing before. This long range manipulation allows him to communicate and produce large amounts of propaganda. He can also produce more golems and glyphs as he can directly control the ink.

### Origami Golem Construction

Alustin is an expert at golem construction. He makes his golems from paper due to the lower mana cost to power them and his paper affinity allows him to mass produce them. His golems run with simple spellforms with basic rules. His golems are designed to fly at the targets and cut them. His golems do not use combat functions and instead only have flight, pathfinding, and flocking rules. Due to the simplistic rules of avoiding damaging non-targeted objects, Alustin's golems are less predictable and take actions that even surprise him.

Alustin can not produce an unlimited amount of golems each day. He can build golems with temporary mana reservoirs, but it strains him more than constructing basic golems. When Alustin constructs Golems he has to imbue part of his will, his sentience into them and he can only use up so much before it becomes dangerous. With his ink affinity he can improve his golems further by making them more mana efficient and faster and more precise. It only takes him minutes to construct his daily amount of golems.

### Mana Techniques

Alustin practices mana techniques to increase the amount of will power he can safely imbue into his golems. This is likely related to will imbuing.

## Equipment

### Helicotan Sabre

The blade has the enchantments built into folds in the metal that were built in during the forging process. The blade is nearly indestructible, can cut through lesser blades and can leave floating sword echoes behind. The echoes are dangerous to everyone around so Alustin has undergone extreme amounts of training to safely use the blade. There is also enchantments inlaid that mean only Helicotans can use the blades.

### Tongue Eater

The Tongue Eater is both an otherworldly artifact that is more valuable than the imperial Ithonians knew and a ritual to devour a language. Alustin stole the "stomach" of the Tongue Eater from the Skyhold vault. He also knows the ritual to activate it but does not wish no, nor does he have the capability to use it. It is a seemingly sentient book. It holds all the languages devoured by the ritual aspect of the Tongue Eater. He intends the break the Tongue Eater, releasing the languages, driving everyone in Havath insane. The Tongue Eater has access to mental manipulation powers as it tried to get Alustin to open it's pages. The Tongue Eater is also meant to be addictive and harmful to sanity. The book also seems to have a sense of self as it became jealous and began to whisper and shake as Alustin thought about using The Last Echo. The Tongue Eater begins whispering to Alustin and get increasingly loud over time. The Tongue Eater seems to be childish in nature as it forces curse words from devoured languages into Alustin's mind. After a while holding the book in his storage tattoo it dumped sayings, words, phrases and languages into Alustin's mind, possibly as an attempt to destroy his mind. Alustin tries to resist the mental manipulation through visual focus techniques. When Alustin was using his relay golems in combat at the Havathi, the Tongue Eater then started to attack and seize the fragments of his mind. The Tongue Eater was seemingly attracted to the relay golem and was irritated when it was stopped.

### Relay Golem

The relay golem is an advanced golem that only works due to Alustin's combination of affinities. They have been designed for years and were brought into fruition through Alustin's ink affinity and the spellform construction skills of Emmenson. It is a paper cube covered is spellforms. The spellforms are so highly detailed and intricate that Alustin required his ink affinity for it to work. When powered with mana, the cube changes into a set of interlocking polygons. The golem requires far more will to be imbued into it than normal golems. The golem splits the mind of the user. The relay golem allows Alustin to monitor entire areas at once and to communicate to everyone his wishes to in an instant. The relay golem enables him to split his magic and cast multiple spells at once through each of the golem's polygons. Simply put the Relay Golem allows Alustin to make numerous actions at once by splitting his mind.

### Storage Tattoo

Alustin has a tattoo on his arm made by Kanderon with her planar affinity. The tattoo is usually invisible except when active and it glows blue. Alustin's storage space will increase in size over time. The storage space started at the size of a small closet but can grow massively over time as Alustin's is a warehouse sized space. The tattoos are anchors for extra-dimensional spaces. That space acts as a new direction in space and Alustin can take anything from any part of the space. Alustin wanted his tattoo to be yellow. He stores paper, ink, glyphs, paper armour, origami golems and pre-drawn wards in his storage space. Alustin can fold himself inside his storage space.

## Senses

### Affinity Senses

Kanderon mentioned that Alustin manifested his affinity sense for paper proprioceptively. His farsight affinity, like other sensory affinities, is a boost to the respective sense, this being the distance he can see.

### Awareness

Alustin underwent training as a child in order to use his sabre safely. Because the echoes from his Helicotan sabre can harm him, Alustin had to undergo sensory awareness training as a child. This involved going around blindfolded at all times to help master their footwork and movement. Due to this training he can walk around without ever impacting anything, he could walk backwards through crowds and wouldn't fall down. He has an exceptional situational awareness.