Zak Andrii

Zak Andrii, by Catheroldart

**Zak Andrii** is currently unguilded. He is a rogue dark arts druid active in the Vancouver-area, and more well-known by his alias identity, The Ghost.

## Appearance

Zak's appearance is of one barely older than Aaron and Kai. He is very tall—towering over Tori and even Kai by several inches. He has a strong, sturdy figure, with broad shoulders and muscular arms. Zak has messy black hair and an ivory complexion, strong cheekbones and a sculpted jaw.

Zak's eyes are bright green and framed with thick lashes. They take on an unearthly glow when Lallakai possesses him. Zak's eyes lose their unnatural quality when either she leaves or Lallakai's magic is yet to be replenished.

### Accessories

Zak has black feathered wings along his back and down his arms. They can be seen peeking up the sides of his neck. The inside of his arm displays an array of tattooed circles. Four of the five are drawn in complex, coloured runes, and the last circle is later filled out as well.

More runes are tattooed over his palm and both his wrists.

Around Zak's neck hang four brightly coloured rough-cut crystals, and clipped on his belt are a dozen thin glass vials reminiscent of test tubes.

### *Druid Vices and a Vodka*

During his capture and temporary containment within the MPD precinct, Zak's hair is longer, almost reaching his shoulders, and his jaw is dark with stubble. After their escape, he later crops his hair even shorter than before—barely an inch long on top and slighter still on the sides.

## Skills, Abilities and Weapons

Zak is a di-mythic. Both an alchemist and a sorcerer, he occasionally dabbles in healing when required. Overall, he's a very experienced Arcana mythic atop his already formidable status as a Druid. Zak can communicate with all Fae in some form or another.

### Fae Possession

Lallakai perpetually possessing Zak allows him a myriad of physical and magical capabilities. His feathered tattoos briefly blur away from his back and solidify into Lallakai's large, shadowy wings. They supply him a boost when he is in need of it—or outright allow him to fly momentarily. Lallakai's magic also grants him the ability to slip into the Fae Demesne, rendering him temporarily semi-incorporeal and, to the outside eye ungifted with Spiritalis—invisible.

### Weapons

Zak's close-range weapons include a curved saber and a trio of long knives strapped along his thigh.

### Tattoos

All Zak's tattoos were either boons or dealt for by Fae. He has simple cantrips and hexes tattooed on his palms. One of the circular rune patterns on his inner arm permits Zak's saber to solidify in his grasp, and another unleashes green restricting bands around his target. Zak can manipulate glowing yellow wires that snap out of his hand with another tattooed circle. The highest rune-filled pattern on his inner arm—one that had previously been empty—causes bean-stalk thick vines to erupt from the ground, their vines bulging with bumps the size of quarters and sprouting sharp thorns each an inch long.

## History

It is implied Zak never knew his biological parents. He was abducted by the notorious Wolfsbane Druid at a very young age. Raised and bred as his apprentice, it is not known whether Zak knew the gravity of the wrongs committed against him, or if the Wolfsbane outright abused his kidnappee.

When he was fourteen, Zak killed the Wolfsbane Druid. Zak harbored his collection of dark arts so they wouldn't land in the wrong hands, and ended up continuing the habit with other black magic artifacts. Zak doesn't have friends. Somewhere along the line he began picking up stray mythics and young adults in need of a fresh start. Those who went with him never returned—and he garnered a name with a frightening reputation: The Ghost. Unbeknownst to the mythic world, his wards only moved on to live happier lives.

As of now, Tori had been his only friend.

## Relationships

### Lallakai

*Main article: Zak and Lallakai*
Lallakai is Zak's Fae familiar. She is very possessive of him and his magic, acting outright hostile to anyone who seemingly covets either. She cannot comprehend Zak's human emotions, and it is insinuated that Lallakai imposes a negative influence on him. It is common practice for her to swing in one of her "moods" and not rare for her to disobey Zak completely. She and Zak are bound forever.

### The Wolfsbane Druid

The Wolfsbane Druid was greatly feared among mythics. It is stated by Varvara that he "left an impression", and Zak was clearly motivated enough to kill him at only fourteen years of age.

### Tori

Main article: Zak and Tori
Tori was supposedly Zak's friend. In the conclusion of Druid Vices and a Vodka, they both acknowledge that they never were. Tori was the only other human Zak had ever remotely opened up to. Tori saw him at his most anguished, and she travelled all the way to LA to save him from the largest MPD precinct on the West Coast.

### Creatures

Zak had five Vargs, he now only has 2 left. He had a strong bond with his horses—to the point where when he returned to his ravaged farm and discovered them dead he nearly lost all control of his magic. He drew all the surrounding Fae of the forest to him with his distress.
Main article: Zak and Varvara

### Varvara Nikolaev

Main article: Varvara and Zak
Varvara is Zak's nemesis. They first encountered each other over Nadine River, a "captive" of The Ghost and the subject of Varvara's elaborate plot to transform the child of a great rival into her apprentice. Varvara ultimately failed. She took her revenge by burning Zak's entire property to ashes, stealing his grimoire, and attempting to wedge onto his place in the local black market. In retaliation, Zak stole his grimoire back and killed her.

### The Yamada Syndicate

Zak was offered Fumi Yamada's hand in marriage if he stopped disrupting their business dealings and joined the guild. Zak refused.

## Trivia

* Zak hates being called "The Ghost".

* He has spiky handwriting.

* Zak owns a dark blue pickup truck with large mud-splattered tires.

* After Varvara's anonymous tip revealing Zak's class, abilities and innumerable charges, his bounty increased to 1.2 million.

* Zak has 326 felonies under MPD law—that MagiPol knows of.

* It is insinuated that Zak's magic is even more scrumptious to Fae than regular druids—and that he only survived so long because Lallakai is so powerful and dedicated.