Ezra Rowe

Ezra Rowe, by Catheroldart

**Ezra Rowe** is a guilded of The Crow and Hammer and an Aeromage in the Elementaria class.
Ezra's added status as an illegal Demon Mage brands him a rogue—though that information is carefully concealed.
Ezra is currently contracted to Etteran Dh'irath.

## Appearance

Ezra has a white scar running down his face from his left temple to the hollow of his cheek, particularly stark against his bronze complexion. The scar cuts through his left eye, leaving the pale, damaged iris with only a dark pupil and outer rim. He has rumpled, dark brown curls and a five o'clock shadow. Ezra is six feet tall.

Though he has a strong, fit build—long, thin scars rake his sides parallelly. With jagged edges, they start by his right hip and run diagonally up his abdominal muscles to his sternum. After the final showdown with the Keys, a small scar marks the edge of his jaw, just below his right ear.

### Fifteen-Year Old Ezra

In his photograph, Ezra is a few inches taller than Lexie, with his hair cropped short. His face is youthful—warm brown eyes set in a handsome olive-skinned face. He has no scar.

### In Gear

A baldric crosses Ezra's chest—holding his polearm in place. Dark fingerless gloves run up his arms to his biceps, with steel reinforcing his knuckles and elbows over the fabric. Occasionally, he dons a black bandana tied over his hair or a black knitted hat.

### Etteran's Influence

When Ezra employs Etteran's demon magic or when he lets Etteran have a certain degree of influence over him, Ezra's left eye—his pale, unseeing, scarred eye—glows crimson. Two curving horns appear on the left side of his head above his temple, and shadowy claws elongate from his fingers.

When Etteran wrestles control away from Ezra, crimson magic laces the left side of his face, and semi-transparent spines jut from his shoulders in bursts of red light.

Ezra and Etteran losing themselves by succumbing to the feedback loop causes red, semi-transparent wings to arch off Ezra's back. A long tail ending in barbs sweeps behind him.

### On The Run

In the two-year period Ezra was on the run and living in the streets, he was six feet tall, yet one hundred thirty-five pounds. He was skinny and wasting away.
In his mug shot from eight years ago, Ezra has hollow cheeks and sunken eyes. His hair is short and scraggy.

## Skills, Abilities and Weapons

Ezra can play the guitar. It's like meditation for him, and he's been playing for a long time.
Ezra's main weapon is his polearm: a two-foot-long black pole with a silver cap on each end and a silver section in the middle. The pole can be pulled apart into four-foot long short swords. Another rendition of the same weapon is the butt ends of each blade attached to form one singular double-ended blade. When he slaps the weapon against his back, it sticks to the baldric of its accord with magnets.
When his polearm is later damaged, he utilizes a pair of regular short swords.

Ezra can later create phantom replicas of his former weapon with Etteran's demon magic.

### Magic

When people move, Ezra can feel the disturbance in the air. As an Aeromage, Ezra can accomplish a wide array of feats, but he isn't particularly gifted or skilled.
In the past, he has caught people in the air by thickening the space beneath them like an invisible balloon, slowing their fall—a form of discorporate ignition. Discorporate ignition is a challenge even for the most skilled of mages, and Ezra can only manage it with a single target.

Ezra can literally steal the breath from someone—blocking the airways to their lungs. He only uses the method in interrogations.

Ezra has the ability to permeate a slight chill in the air, particularly when he is emotionally volatile. He can suck the light from a room and cast deeper shadows. When he utilizes Etteran's demon magic, circles reminiscent of sorcery spells pulse beneath him in spiky, crimson runes.

### Physical Capabilities

Though he has awful depth perception—he's half blind—it isn't of particular significance in close combat. If anything, Ezra is more tuned in and aware of his surroundings during a battle.

Ezra is equipped with unnatural super-strength and speed. He garnered half his demon's endurance after becoming a demon mage, and can physically withstand what would've been impossible for any regular human. He can continue engaging in combat with horrendous wounds.

## History

Ezra's former name was Enéas. When he was seven, his parents—wary, unregistered mythics who didn't have much money—met a few initates of The Court. Despite their usual inhibitions, they struck up a friendship with this group, and the same summer, Ezra and his family moved to a commune in Enright, Oregon.

It is implied that Xanthe heavily influenced their thoughts and decisions—and the mindsets of the other initiates. Ezra's parents began attending weekly meetings with all the other adults in the commune. Their behavior changed, and Ezra, still only a boy, didn't think to question it.

When he was fourteen, reared in the belief and twisted ideologies of The Court, Ezra agreed to become one of twelve demon mages—though he didn't know it at the time—along with his friend Lexie. Xanthe had convinced Ezra's parents of his "enlightenment", and how it was a great honor to become a "protector." His parents obliged.

Ezra's control over Etteran was fickle, as it naturally would be, but they were told that those who had trouble with their demons were weak, and Ezra never said a word about his struggle.

Shortly after becoming a demon mage, Lexie lost control of her demon and succumbed to the madness. Ezra, nearby in an attempt to calm Lexie down, was caught in her crosshairs. She lashed out at him, scarring him severely before Nazhivēr stepped in and killed her.

After the incident, Ezra began to question what he'd been taught. He and Etteran ran away from the commune and ended up in Portland. He roamed around for a little over a month—locating other mythics and asking careful questions. By the time he figured out who he was and what had happened to him, it was already too late. In a feverish hunt for the lost demon mage, The Court had been discovered by The Keys of Solomon. A massacre ensued, infamously known as the Enright Extermination. All sixty-eight residents at the commune were killed, including Ezra's parents.

Ezra went on the run. For two years Ezra lived on the streets, homeless, a period of time in which he was repeatedly arrested for theft. When he was around eighteen, he encountered Aaron for the first time. Ezra saved him from a group of shifters and killed off the rest of the gang. Aaron, concerned for a stranger's safety and oblivious to Ezra's lethal, incorrigible power, found him again and brought him back to his home. Aaron and Kai took him under their wing, wrangled together some forged identification paperwork and eventually inducted him into The Crow and Hammer.

## Relationships

### Tori Dawson

Ezra is in love with Tori. He'd been attracted to her from the start, but he hid it from her, believing nothing would come out of it under the circumstances of him being a demon mage and his days being numbered. He reciprocates Tori's confession in *Lost Talismans and a Tequila*.

### Aaron Sinclair

Aaron is one of Ezra's best friends. He's the one who found a homeless, wasted Ezra and brought him home, six years prior.

### Kai Yamada

Kai is one of Ezra's best friends. He and Aaron, together, took Ezra under their wing.

### Eterran

Ezra detests and fears Eterran in equal measure—fears what Eterran could do if he stole control away. They can communicate in Ezra's head, but otherwise Eterran stays quiet, slipping into a sort of hibernation. Everything Ezra sees or hears, Eterran is knowledgeable of as well. Ezra needs Eterrans's cooperation to use demon magic.

### Darius King

Darius has known about Ezra since the very beginning; Ezra told him in his membership interview.

### Lexie

Lexie was Ezra's childhood friend, bred alongside him at the Enright commune to become a "protector". It is implied that he loved her.

### Ezra's Parents

Ezra loved his parents, but he sometimes blames them for what happened to him. He hates how naive they'd been.

## Trivia

* Ezra's depth perception is awful. He doesn't have a driver's license.

* He's a master at video games.

* He doesn't drink much.

* Ezra likes mountain scenery.

* Ezra has a penchant for police procedurals.

* He watches Game of Thrones religiously.

* Ezra's zodiac sign is Gemini.

* Most people are intimidated by him.

* He's ticklish.

* Ezra's favorite childhood food growing up was Moqueca.

* Ezra's magic had already developed by the time he was ten.