Blake Hartigan

Blake Hartigan is one of the three legendary immortal sorcerers of Velthryn. He has accepted Lydia as an apprentice, and is teaching her powerful new sorcery. Blake is a master of flame magic. Blake writes books on sorcery and dominion bonding. Argues with Edrick Theas about sorcery.

## Physical Description

As of Stealing Sorcery, Blake looks like a normal man in his 50s. He has mostly grey hair with some brown strands remaining. His face has lots of wrinkles and his only sign of wealth is the rings on his hands. He walks with a straight back.

## Personality

Blake is considered strange by the standards of normal sorcerers. He often spends months in his tower without leaving and gives extremely valuable gifts out to the people who live near him. He has a reputation of being highly dangerous but people under him feel safer when he is around.

## History

**Pre-Series**

Blake Hartigan wished to become immortal and at first tried alchemy like those on Tyrenia and succeeded but he disliked the method. He then found a way to control the cycle of reincarnation so when he dies he is reborn with all of his memories. Blake spent long periods of time dedicated to the study of dominion bonds, dominion marks and alchemy. With his knowledge of dominion marks, Blake created numerous Hartigan's Star prototypes which are rings, with solid dominion essence and dominion marks to provide functionality. Blake eventually managed to create his greatest accomplishment Hartigan's Star. He considers Hartigan's Star his "eternal shame" and claims that he should destroy it but he is too scared and prideful to do so. Blake also trains a number of apprentices including Edon.

**WOBM**

## Skills and Abilities

Please note that lots of the information about Blake Hartigan's abilities come from Kester on the Climber's Court Discord.

### Reincarnation

Blake Hartigan is immortal in a sense. Blake seized control over his cycle of reincarnation and each time he dies he is reborn with all his memories. Someone entrusted with his secret then retrieves him so that he can remain in seclusion until adulthood. However, his dominion connections do not carry over so he has to retrain every life. This is less of a problem for Blake than it would be for others though as Blake can connect himself to his dominion marked items.

### Dominion of Flame

Hartigan is famed for his use of flame sorcery. Unsurprisingly, this is Hartigan's most used essence type. According to Kester, as of WOBM 3, Blake can use around 20 flame essence before dealing permanent damage to himself. However, as a dominion sorcerer Hartigan has an efficiency ratio of 1:400 but Hartigan's Star boosts this ratio to 1:600. This means that on his own, Blake has 8000 mana or 12000 with just his ring's boost - this ignores the mana stored in his ring which pushes his mana up into the hundreds of thousands. Blake can effortlessly erase Lydia's flame spells. Hartigan is strong enough with flame magic to become the Prime Lord of Fire. Blake's average fire spells have a 400 / 600 domini output - which he gets by spending a single point of his personal essence. His reputation for incinerating dozens of enemies at once earned him the title "The Ember Lord."

### Dominion of Lightning

Hartigan demonstrated a lightning spell during his training of Lydia.

### Dominion of Stone

Blake also demonstrated his ability to manipulate stone by manipulating the stone of his tower to form a wall.

### Dominion of Void

Blake has access to the Dominion of Void, which is outlawed on Mythralis, and could cast a Voidlance spell that launched a trio black javelins to nullify the magic they came into contact with.

### Dominion of Motion

Blake used a "burst of kinetic energy" to knock a vial aside meaning he likely has some connection to the Dominion of Motion.

### Dominion Marking

Hartigan has extensive knowledge of dominion marking to the point where he is basically responsible for the development of enchanted rings. Blake's methods of creating dominion marked items involve the use of refined dominion essence. Hartigan uses dominion marks for several reasons: the essence from dominions is stored within the mark rather than the item itself and the ability to connect a dominion marked item to something else - like connecting a person to an item so they can access new types of essence or to use the item as a catalyst to connect to a dominion.

Hartigan creates artificial gemstones and then transfers the essence from materials saturated with dominion essence into the gemstone. He then adds the gemstone to an item and applies several marks to the items. There are 3 marks on Hartigan's Star prototypes. The first connects the user to the Dominion of Flame but instead of drawing on the user's essence the gemstone's essence is used. The second mark draws essence from the Dominion of Flame to constantly to recharge the ring. The third mark prevents anyone not bonded to the ring from using it.

### Alchemy

Hartigan is well respected for his alchemy ability. Blake keeps extensive alchemical notes, recording all the work he does. Hartigan can make healing potions that are far better than what Mythralis usually has. Blake knows a great deal about alchemy from when attempting to obtain immortality the Tyrenian way. Blake also makes potions that mix antithetical dominion compounds.

### Items

#### Hartigan's Star

Hartigan's Star is Blake Hartigan's ultimate weapon. A ring with refined essence from the Dominion of Flame and dominion marks. Blake claims that the ring could "consume the world in fire." The following quote about Hartigan's Star is from Kester.

> His star constantly pulls essence as fast as he could make it from the Flame dominion and stores it in the largest mana capacitor he could create, giving himself access to *hundreds of thousands of domini of pre-called, immediately usable essence.* This allows him to call spells using his maximum power, and then add to that by pulling as much essence as he wants from the ring, adding it to his calling, and the ring will immediately begin refilling itself at his maximum ritual powered calling rate. In essence (ha), Hartigan is walking around with the mana levels, mana transfer speed, and therefore power-boost, of a Sapphire+ attuned. (But only for Flame spells)
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#### Hartigan's Star Prototypes

The prototypes that Blake constructed were mostly recycled for future attempts but some were given to his apprentices. The ring has a gemstone that stores essence from the Dominion of Flame. A dominion mark pulls essence from the Dominion of Flame and the gemstone stores it. Hartigan is scared of his items being abused so he applies a dominion mark that means only those who have bonded to the ring can use it. The most important of the dominion marks is the one that allows the user to use essence from the ring rather than their body.

#### Other Items

Hartigan has a ring that allows him to disable the protection ritual on his door. He also has an absurd number of enchanted items - even some of his silverware is dominion bonded. One of the rings that Hartigan wears protects him from sleep spells but needs to be manually activated in advance. Blake has a tiny enchanted device that heats his cauldron.

## Relationships

Having a direct blood relationship to Blake Hartigan is very important because Saffron was willing to face Derek as he is not a blood descendent of Blake.

## Appearances

War of Broken Mirrors

* WoBM2: Stealing Sorcery
* WoBM3: Defying Destiny