The Magician

## OFFICI**Λ**L DESCRIPTION

### Upright

Willpower, desire, being resourceful, skill, ability, concentration, manifestation

### Reversed

Manipulation, cunning, trickery, wasted talent, illusion, deception

## Production Information

### Debut

The Arcana, V: The Hierophant (mentioned), VXII: The Star

**The Magician** is the first of the 22 Major Arcana in a tarot deck. He is first mentioned in *Chapter V: The Hierophant*, wherein Indirah Alnazar describes him as her master- and herself as his apprentice. Indirah also mentions that besides Kent and Emelaigne Xalvador, the Magician has become her teacher and would be the reason why Indirah is the powerful mage she's become. He is the the voice Indirah and Kellan listen to when they draw the card of the same name.

His realm is an island, depicted as a beach with bioluminescent waters.

## PERSON**Λ**LITY

Since he's one of the Major Arcana, he is an archetype- being smart and curious, also being versatile like a fox. The Magician is known to be very vague, especially with his words, which gets Indirah irritated whenever he talks to her. He doesn't talk like a "normal person" as he isn't a normal person in the first place. He talks in a rather brotherly voice that guides people in the right path, and he believes in the people who he gives help to. He can also be a little flirty and smug with people, almost having a "permanent smirk" on his face as Indirah describes it.

## **Λ**PPE**Λ**R**Λ**NCE

The Magician appears as a humanoid red fox with magenta eyes. He wears a white shirt with a purple and gold neckline hem under a red-violet drapery. The Magician is a shapeshifter and could take any form anyone wants to imagine him as. It's basic magical knowledge that the Magician only appears as a fox to the characters because Indirah was the one who drew the Magician as a fox on her deck, and it's only the tarot deck in the franchise.

## POWERS & **Λ**BILITIES

* **Shapeshifting**- All Major Arcana can shapeshift (except the Fool and the Tower), so the Magician can take the form anyone wants them to imagine taking.
	+ **Summoner Possessing**- He can possess the fortune teller who's trying to reach out and call for him, and turn their eyes into his eye color. He could overlap his and the fortune teller's voice since they possess their body.
	+ **Via Cards**- The Magician could communicate with the tarot card holder to "speak" to them using his "voice", even if he's not explicitly saying words as a card; he creates various sounds in order to communicate with them whenever they use the cards.

## TRIVI**Λ**S

* According to **Austin Dy**, the Magician would most likely be in his early 20s if he's a human. All Major Arcana are immortal and were born the "age" they are today, which means if the Magician is human, he'd always be around 20 years old.
* Indirah Alnazar being sometimes annoyed by the Magician is Austin Dy's metaphor for **Kit** **Aguinaldo** being "weirded out" by the furry fandom (the furry fandom is a subculture interested in anthropomorphic animal characters with human personalities and characteristics).
* The color palette used on Indirah's combat outfit is based on the Magician's; red-violet, orange, purple, and gold.
* In *Chapter VXII: The Star*, when Indirah says, "Sons of bitches think they're someone like Nicolaus Copernicus", she's actually just referring to the Magician even if she said she was referring to all the Major Arcana. This is supported by the fact that the Devil and the Fool- Kellan- don't talk the same way as the Magician does.