Jason Adrian

**Jason Adrian** is a Magicker in-training and the only known Gatekeeper still alive in the world. The son of Jarred Adrian and an unnamed mother, after the respective deaths of his parents he was raised by Joanna and William McIntire, his stepmother and stepfather, along with his stepsister Alicia. Following an accident during tryouts for summer soccer camp, he was selected to attend Camp Ravenwyng with nearly fifty other students, where he discovered his Talent for magick. He later succeeded in opening three Gates which anchored Haven in time and space, allowing himself and the other Magickers a safe place to begin re-building Iron Mountain Academy.

## Biography

### Early Life

Jason was born to Jarred Adrian and an unnamed mother in Southern California sometime in the 1990s. His mother died when he was very young, presumably of a congenital heart defect, and afterward he could only recall faint memories of her, occasionally seeing her in his dreams. His father later remarried, making Joanna McIntire his stepmother and Alicia McIntire his stepsister. After Jason's father died, his stepmother married William McIntire, giving him a stepfather as well. While he got along well with his stepfamily, Jason did not feel the same sense of belonging that he might have had with his biological parents, and often questioned whether or not they only looked after him because they were too kind and polite to do anything else.

Jason excelled in school, particularly in English classes, and was encouraged to be a responsible student by his stepmother. He was an excellent writer and an avid reader, traits which he shared with his teacher Sarah Cowling. He also enjoyed playing soccer with his childhood best friend Sam, though the two were often bullied by classmates Martin Brinkford and George Canby, which landed them in trouble several times.

### The Magickers

#### Arrival at Ravenwyng

Jason met Bailey Landau when they boarded the bus for Camp Ravenwyng together, and they quickly became friends. On the way there, he also met fellow students Ting Chuu, Henry Squibb, Stefan Olson, Rich Hawkins, and Jonnard Albrite. He and Bailey theorized that time seemed to pass differently while they were driving, and though the group drove through the "tunnel" that Eleanora Andarielle conjured to take them directly to Ravenwyng, they did not yet know that she had done so with magick.

Upon arriving at Ravenwyng, Jason took his and Bailey's bags to the Lake Wannameecha Gathering Hall, where he met Trent Callahan, and the two formed a friendship almost instantly. They sat and bonded with Bailey at dinner, and then at the nightly bonfire, where Gavan introduced the remaining Ravenwyng staff. Jason and Trent were later assigned to be cabin mates in Starwind by the Wishing Well.

In the middle of the night, Jason attempted to make his way across the camp to the restrooms, only to be jumped by a wolfjackal. It bit him, marking his left hand with a crescent-shaped gash, before being scared off by FireAnn. Before it disappeared, it spoke to him, saying "you're mine." Jason neglected to tell FireAnn the whole truth of what had happened, fearing that she wouldn't believe him, and found that the wound had already healed superficially by the time he had cleaned it off.