Sera Cadence

**Sera Cadence** is an Invoker attuned who was recently adopted into House Cadence for her prowess in battle.

## History

### Early Life

Sera was once a friend and future retainer of Corin, of the house Cadence. Then following the assumed death and failed judgment of Corin's older brother, Tristan, Corin's mother, Laura, then divorced Corin's father, Magnus. Causing a split of assets, Sera, her mother, and Corin's mother, parted from Corin and his father at this point.

Sera sent many letters to Corin but soon stopped receiving replies, she finds out later this was due to Magnus Cadence's intervention.

Sera has also hinted later in life that Corin's older brother was "unkind to her" insinuating he was abusive like Corin's father.

### Sufficiently Advanced Magic

Many years later Magnus Cadence fearing his second son will also fail his judgement, sends for Sarah explaining that she is his illegitimate daughter and would like to welcome her into the Cadence family, although not officially recognizing her as his daughter yet. Not yet knowing of the abuse he has inflicted upon her former friend, and now brother, Corin Cadence, she excitedly came back with Magnus.

Sera passed her judgment obtaining an Attunement, Summoner, allowing her to summon monsters of varying types.

Sera and Corin have had both had doubts about the legitimacy of Magnus's claims but do later agree they truly are Siblings and treat each other as such.

She made many close friends while attending school, including Mara and Jin. Among these friends she is seen as the strategic leader, and often the one stepping forward for any administrative or social interactions.

During Katashi's attack on Lorian Heights, Sera and Patrick were able to cast a cooperative spell that was significantly above what would normally be considered possible according to Lord Teft.

During the final battles in the Serpent Spire to reach the room where Katashi ordered Corin to bring Vera, Sera overloaded herself with mana resulting in massive mana scarring, and somehow caused her attunement to change to an unknown one.

### On the Shoulders of Titans

Sera's mana scarring rendered her unable to use her magic, as well as unable to recover her mana. Corin was able to trade with Deny to get them to remove the worst of the scarring, but she was still limited to whispering to speak.

She assists in keeping Mizuchi distracted during her attack on the Winter Ball, even going so far as to cast a binding on her, which surprises Mizuchi. Later, Mizuchi shows that she is a Summoner, and that the binding that Sera cast allows her to summon Sera to her inside the Serpent Spire. It is during the battle with Mizuchi, fighting alongside her brothers, that Sera reveals that her new Attunement is that of an Invoker, showing that her abilities are now greater than what she had as a Summoner. She also creates a contract with Researcher 437-C while Mizuchi is distracted with her gloating, allowing Researcher to continue existing after Mizuchi breaks her contract with her. After the battle, Sera immediately releases the binding between her and Mizuchi.

After Sera and Corin are out of the Spire, she tells him that she still doesn't trust Tristan, with which Corin reluctantly agrees.

## Skills and Abilities

### Attunements

* Summoner (Former)
* Invoker (Current)
* Transcendence Crystal Mark (providing density mana)

**Attunements / Crystal Marks**
 Density Mark

As an Invoker, Sera can form contracts with monsters but unlike the standard Summoner attunement, the ascended version allows Sera to take on aspects from her contracted monsters. The Summoner attunement gives air and transference mana, so the Invoker attunement likely does also. When invoking a contract, Sera can use the summon's mana.

## Possessions

* Shield Sigil
* Improved Phoenix Sigil
* Ceris, the Song of Harmony
* Summon enhancing bracers
* Messaging necklace

## Appearances

* AA1: Sufficiently Advanced Magic
* AA2: On the Shoulders of Titans
* AA3: The Torch that Ignites the Stars
* AA4: The Silence of Unworthy Gods
* WW1: Six Sacred Swords
* WW3: Soulbrand

## Trivia

Both Sera's and Corin's characters are based off a TTRPG Rowe played with Jess Richards called Cobalt Nightmares.

### Safe Mana Readings

#### Sufficiently Advanced Magic

* Chapter: XX - Serpents
	+ Source: Mana Watch
		- Lungs (Summoner): 112 mana (Carnelian Rank D)
* Chapter: Epilogue
	+ Source: Mana Watch
		- Lungs (Invoker): 0

#### On the Shoulders of Titans

* Chapter: XII - Lessons Learned
	+ Source: Mana Watch
		- Lungs (Invoker): 6 mana (Quartz Rank E)
* Chapter: XIV - These Tests Are Not Fair
	+ Source: Mana Watch
		- Lungs (Invoker): 24 mana (Quartz Rank C)
* Chapter: XV - Replacements
	+ Source: Mana Watch
		- Lungs (Invoker): 44 (Quartz Rank A)

#### The Torch that Ignites the Stars

* Chapter: III - Splitting The Party
	+ Source: Mana Watch
		- Lungs (Invoker): 80 (Carnelian Rank E)
* Chapter: Epilogue - Home Sweet Home
	+ Source: Mana Watch
		- Lungs (Invoker): 118 (Carnelian Rank D)

#### The Silence of Unworthy Gods

* Chapter: X - Measuring Progress
	+ Source: Researcher
		- Left Hand (Transcendence Crystal Mark - Density): 10 mana (Efficiency Ratio about 3 to 1 about equivalent 30 mana in an attunement)
* Chapter: XXX - Old and New
	+ Source: Mana Watch
		- Lungs (Invoker): 261 mana (Carnelian Rank A)
* Epilogue - Broken Horizon
	+ Source: Unknown
		- Lungs (Invoker): 261 mana (plus nearly the amount she lost when she'd first caused her scarring around 112. This would put her just short of or as a Sunstone Rank E)