Silvas Satori

*"If Andrew put his trust in you to the point of sacrificing his life, I'll do the damn same."*
—Silvas Satori to Jason Kade
**Silvas Satori** is a grandmaster mage and a long-time practitioner of the Ways of the Knight Enchanter. As the leader of the mercenary group Platinum Blades, he mentored the young Andrew Lavellan in mana magic, until he diverged onto his own path. Silvas returned after hearing of Lavellan's death, and voyaged to Neo Arcadia to avenge his fallen friend.

After his apprentice was brought back from death by the Arcadian Rebels, Satori continued to lead his team of mercenaries.

## Biography

### Early Life

Silvas was never a natural mage. Through hard work, he mastered three different schools of magic through persistent effort. However, he was not so intelligent in other areas. He later decided to put his abilities to good use, and devoted his powers to profit. Silvas became a Sell Sword and played life by ear. Meeting Andrew a coincidence and a blessing in disguise.

### The Mage's Legacy

Mentoring the likes of Andrew Lavellan gave Silvas's life a feeling of purpose to a degree in which he never felt before. From onward he gained more and more of a following, eventually establishing his own mercenary group, the Platinum Blades, breaking necks for the greater good, and maybe for the cash, just a little at least.

## Personality

*"The world losing a thug that had the potential to become a decent family man is a much better outcome than a world losing a potential champion of the people."*
—Silvas Satori
Silvas is a big believer in family, loyalty, trust and friendship. He is a humanitarian, as he takes care of his prisoners and makes an effort to limit the brute force he and his teammates administer to their enemies. He is willing to risk his life for his teammates, and he authorizes lethal force if they are in extreme danger.

Silvas deeply cared for Andrew, and was deeply affected by his death. However, this loss has not completely discouraged Silvas, as he was still determined to lead the Platinum Blades.

## Physical Appearance

Silvas is an albino man; he has white hair and red eyes, the spitting image of a potentially mature Andrew Lavellan.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

*"I've mastered three schools of magics."*
—Silvas Satori
* **Magic:** Silvas is a master of the Ways of the Knight Enchanter, White Mage as well as his own created style of magic, Phantom Strider. He has retained all the novice spells he learned as an apprentice, such as basic elemental bolts, magic arrows, and weak mana blasts created with a staff. He can also easily switch between close and long-range attacks. Matthew Drake has commended his versatility.
	+ **Aura Manipulation:** The majority of Silvas' techniques require aura.
		- **Healing:** With White Mage, Silvas can generate a healing white aura. Alternatively, Silvas can release red aura, which causes his allies to drain their opponents' stamina mid-combat and transfer it to themselves. Lastly, Silvas can bisect his own health in order to reinvigorate somebody else.
		- **Force-Field Generation:** Silvas can create a shield of white aura. He can also create a mana shield instead which can transfer kinetic energy from attacks to his own mana reserve.
		- **Power Augmentation:** Silvas can enhance his allies' strength and speed with a circle of aura. He temporarily boosted the Rebels' strength and speed when he anonymously assisted them during a bank robbery. Silvas can also empower his weapons and physical attributes by imbuing them with his mana. His attacks can become explosive in unarmed combat, albeit this requires more mana. He
		- **Replication:** Silvas can create up to three shadow clones of himself at once. He can also clone his weapons.
	+ **Telekinesis:** Silvas can move his Phantom Daggers with his mind.

### Abilities

*"I've worked my ass off becoming a master of sorts."*
—Silvas Satori to Jason Kade
Silvas is considered to be an idiot savant for his magical gifts.

* **Master Martial Artist:** Silvas is a legendary master of hand-to-hand combat, capable of fighting against humans and demons alike. Under his tutelage, the young Andrew Lavellan would become excellent fighters in their own right. He also complemented Matillo's training for Andrew and Minato's training for Akihiko. His instruction of his students was so effective that they were able to challenge superhuman opponents like Shadow Boy and extremely dangerous fighters like Almanac. Silvas is also extremely skilled in the use of swords and knives.
* **Stealth:**

## Techniques

* White Mage
* Knight Enchanter
* Phantom Strider

*"Healing, shields, buffs and debuffs."*
—Silvas Satori
With battles comes allies: Silvas is well aware of that fact. Thus, he studied the White Mage school of magic. Silvas can not only heal, but grant different and unique buffs. However, his other magic is inactive during the use of White Mage abilities due to the focus it requires.

* **Restoration's Grace:** A shield of white aura that heals damage over a period of time. The shield will disappear if dealt a devastating blow, taking the damage for him before disappearing.
* **Impulse Rush:** Silvas creates a circle of aura expanding outward, affecting all his allies standing in its area of affect, allowing them to hit faster and harder.
* **Curse of Strife**: Silvas releases a short burst of red aura; any ally caught in it will be able to drain stamina from enemies with every hit dealt while restoring their own health and stamina.
* **Split Resuscitation:** Silvas splits his current power supply and stamina reserve in half in order to completely revitalize a someone immediately after they've fallen.

*"Tank, counter attack."*
—Silvas Satori
Silvas learned the ways of battle magic, being able to empower himself as well as physical weapons and armor, boasting the ability to transmute different forms of energy.

* **Mana Shield:** Silvas creates a mana shield. Creating it last second grants a chance to either parry with the same force back towards the opponent, or convert the kinetic energy into his own mana reserve.
* **Mana Blade:** Silvas can imbue swords in mana to make them much more effective in range and damage.
* **Mana Form:** Silvas can release small explosions of mana with punches and kicks if forced to fight hand-to-hand. A large waste of energy, but really effective if it connects; high risk, high reward.

*"Move and strike fast before they can do so first."*
—Silvas Satori
Inspired by shinobi such as Akihiko, Kaiden and Jason Kade, Silvas invented form of magic by combining illusionary and secretive arts with that of the Knight Enchanter, allowing him to go from dangerous to deadly with assassin-esque techniques.

* **Phantom Stride:** Silvas can manifest his own form into an illusion of itself, allowing for fast travel and invincibility. However, that invincibility ends the moment he leaves the form to strike.
* **Phantom's Shadow:** Silvas can manifest up to three shadow versions of himself. He only uses it in short bursts for fear of stamina drain. He can switch places when he's only manifested a singular clone. Due to this, repetitive use gets predictable to where he may strike afterward.
* **Phantom Duplication:** Silvas can create phantom versions of weapons, his favorite being making copies of his dual-edged dagger, Phantom Daggers, and having then swing around and outward along with his movements. He can even change the size, but doing so costs more energy.
* **Phantom Strife:** Silvas can manifest a large circle of aura in front of him that spawns Phantom Daggers continuously within the area affected.

## Equipment

### Weaponry

* **Katamadhar:** A special backhanded sword that lays against silvas's forearm, modeled after a melee weapon known as a "Tonfa." Silvas can unleash a flurry of strong slashes with more force than someone with a normal gripped blade.
* **Fantomu:** Silvas' trusty dual-edged Phantom Dagger, which he telekinetically flings around and creates Phantom Daggers while doing so.

## Relationships

	+ Andrew Lavellan - Former Apprentice and Good Friend
	+ Eric Finch
	+ Carmen Collins
	+ Jane Richard
	+ Matthew Drake
* Arcadian Rebels - Situational Allies
	+ Jason Kade/Almanac - Friend

## Trivia

* Silvas was originally going to be named Sylas.