Mia Karlov

Art by Westling

**Mia Karlov** is a human scholar from Merialum who specializes in a branch of magic she calls "Reality Magic", a type of magic with the potential to shift the terrain and change the laws of gravity in a whim. Mia's presence in a plane is said to be a bad omen.

## Early life

Mia was born in a small village on the outskirts of the kingdom of Tersil to a family of dressmakers, and planned on continuing the family's tradition. However when she was 8 years old, her village was raided by the Orc warlord Eyesore, who brutally murdered her parents before her eyes. Luckily for Mia, she was saved by Fevizia Joahnson who came with her adventuring group The Bloodied Phoenix to save the village. Mia was then taken to an orphanage in Nixvelle where she spent her youth studying magic.

10 years have passed and Mia became an adept magic user, one that would soon become a challenger for even the most talented magic users in the area. Word passed around of her magical prowess and soon reached Phobos, the headmaster of Phirback Academy. He requested Mia to show him some of her magic, and Mia impressed him via her usage of Paradoxes to fuel her spells. Phobos decided to take her in to study in Phirback on the condition that she continues exploring this line of magic, ignoring Arvania's warning who said that the girl was a bad omen.

In the first year in the academy Mia met her first and only friend, a girl named Sophia who she refers to as Sophie. Mia and Sophia were inseparable, and even shared a room together. The two promised each other to complete the Historical Incantation, which will soon become their demise. As the two grew older, they became professors at Phirback, with Mia teaching her special branch of magic as well as transmutation and Sophia teaching fortune telling.

After breakthroughs in her field, Mia decided to take a shot at the incantation. Her experiment failed and opened a portal into the blind eternities and ripped a hole through reality, causing Paradoxes to swarm Merialum and other planes. Before being sucked into the blind eternities, Mia's spark ignited, which granted her a safe travel through the blind eternities.

## Omen for the World

After 10 years of roaming the multiverse, newly sparked Mia return to Merialum in hopes of mending the tears in reality and banishing the paradoxes she let roam loose around the plane. She worked together with Keith Alstara, an elf planeswalker who devoted his life to serving the sea goddess Incra and Tonumer Markil, her ex-student. After consulting Phanuel the paradox of patience and Remiel the paradox of knowledge, they encountered Tito who tried to convince them to embrace the chaos the paradoxes create, and join him in watching the world burn. They refused and a fight broke out. While Tito quickly overwhelmed Keith and Tonumer, he found himself underestimating Mia's magical prowess. Defeated, Tito escaped from the fight, not before deeming Mia as a "fellow agent of chaos".

The group confronted Penroth, the avatar of all paradoxes to demand he recalls the paradoxes back from the plane. Penroth revealed before the group that it was in fact Mia who released the paradoxes from their slumber, and that as long as there are tears in reality there is no way for him to help them. Keith, enraged by Mia's actions, began to attack her using his elementals. Mia overpowered him and demanded he either calms down or planeswalks away. Keith told Mia he will never work with her until she set things right, and planeswalked away.

Mia and Tonumer came back defeated to Phirback, and encountered Sophia, Mia's old friend. Sophia prophesised that the tear in reality could only be fixed via the help of a druid with a strong connection to nature. Realising they must find Keith again, Tonumer and Mia went back to Phrunia where they found him. Mia swallowed her pride and apologized to Keith, who told them he hoped they would come to find him here. He tells them about a spell he studied long ago which could mend anything. Keith didn't have enough power to cast it however, which is why he needed Mia to want to help him. Mia lend Keith her power, which he used to mend the tears in reality in Merialum. Seeing how the spell was only able to mend the tears in Merialum, she left the plane in hopes of finding more knowledge and fixing the tears in reality throughout the multiverse.

### Anglodoor: Timeline Chaos

As Mia roamed the multiverse and her power grew, she became more and more reckless and her devotion to studying quickly turned into obsession. However with her roaming the multiverse, she was missing Sophia, her friend. With her power over reality Mia decided to create a planar portal for Sophia to use to accompany her throughout the multiverse. The portal however overloaded, dragging Sophia inside and transported her to Anglodoor before being destroyed completely. Mia, who was shocked from the loss of her friend quickly planeswalked away in hopes of finding Sophia and bring her back home.

### Ruin of Wakiri

Mia found her way to Wakiri where she exploited the plane's instability to conduct research. She accidentally released Has'Ofk, the paradox of ruin onto the plane, causing in legions of paradoxes to flood the plane and kill its denizens. Mia hid from Eileen the reason Has'Ofk was in the plane and attempted to help her defeat him, knowing full well it could not be done. Mia used Has'Ofk power by fusing her magic with his form, gaining control over the paradoxes of the plane and banishing it, which resulted in her magic being at the peak of its power. Eileen, who found out what Mia did was enraged by Mia's lack of responsibility over what she's done, which resulted in her forcing Mia to planeswalk from Wakiri and promised her if she ever showed herself on the plane again, she will be executed.

## Signature Spells & Items

Mia is the creator of The Reality Anchor, a powerful artifact known to limit planeswalking abilities and reality shifting around it. She is also known as being the only mortal to attempt the Historical Incantation, although has never succeeded in casting it.

## Planes visited

* Merialum (Home plane)
* Wakiri
* Eaphelca
* Amellwind

## Planeswalkers met

* Darrien
* Cristine Goldhart
* Heliana
* Merial
* Tito
* Keith Alstara
* Eileen Gushiken