Archmage

> "*All look to me for guidance. Without it, everything would crumble to ruin.*"
> ― Archmage
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The **Archmage** is the former ruler of a vast empire and the main antagonist for the final third of Grapple Force Rena. She used to believe her duty to her people was to provide wisdom to them until the Creators return to the world. She resides in Capital City, the capital of the empire.

In Grapple Force Rena, she declares marshal law in her kingdom after the Fairy Forest Disaster and attempts to create an endless hollow army and powerful super-weapons by kidnapping and holding hostage all the people who have bound artifacts. After fighting with Rena, she is able to peer into the creators' world, only to find there was nothing there. After realizing her misguided goals, she sends Rena home and ends the position of the Archmage, but presumably maintaining the empire.

## Appearance

The Archmage's most noticeable physical characteristic is her large head of dark hair, which she wears in an afro. She also has purple eyes and large eyelashes.

She wears a deep purple robe around her whole body with a golden four-pointed star at the front and silver lining at the top and bottom. At the top of her head sits and gold and silver crown with three points. She carries around a staff with a golden ring and a purple ball floating in the center.

## Personality

Before the events of Grapple Force Rena, the Archmage is near obsessed with carrying out justice and maintain order in her empire. She believes she has been chosen by the Creators to carry out these tasks by any means necessary, even if it means actively harming the people she is mean to protect. After witnessing the absence of the Creators, she claims to have realized the errors of her ways and changed, but it is unknown how specifically.

## Abilities

* **Magical Abilities**: The Archmage has a large variety of powerful magical abilities that she can attack with.
* **Hovering**: The Archmage can hover in the air and move around slowly.
* **Communication with the Creators (Supposed)**:The Archmage can supposedly communicate with the creators as she is the leader of the empire. However, because it is not for certain that the creators even exist, this is up for debate.

## Relationships

### Citizens of Her Empire

Although she sees herself as the protector of the people within her empire's jurisdiction and those in the Capital are fiercely loyal to her, many of those outside Capital City appear to think of the Archmage as rather authoritarian. For example, Pine goes out on her own to stop Lueh because she does not want the Archmage to get involved with the situation. This comfortability with their leader is not unfounded, as during the course of Grapple Force Rena the Archmage commits several crimes against her own people, such as holding Arlet hostage while she force Joules to work for her and kidnapping all of her citizens who own bound artifacts (one of whom was Jette, one of her most trusted fighters). When the Archmage is defeated and witnesses the absence of the Creators, she tells Rena that she will attempt to change her ways and officially ends her rule, becoming the final Archmage.

## Quotes

*"A great catastrophe has befallen us. What was thought impossible has come to pass. By all accounts, an entire world — the Fairy Forest — has been completely destroyed. After much deliberation among the leaders of the capital... The Office of the Archmage has been given all authority to handle the situation."* -to all the people in her empire after hearing of the Fairy Forest Disaster

*"Order must be maintained at all costs. This will be our guiding principle from here on."* -to Grimsleigh and Rosalind, describing her new goal for her empire's future

*"...A grab for power? Child, an entire world has vanished in the blink of an eye. All look to me for guidance. Without it, everything would crumble to ruin. And just how, pray tell, does a powerless one set the world at peace? What horrors would have unfolded had I not seized control? A grab for power indeed! Power is my duty! It is my right!"* -to Rena, using the Fairy Forest Disaster as justification for becoming more authoritarian

*"I considered myself their avatar. Fit to bear that responsibility... that power... The power to set the world at peace... I was a fool to think that power existed. And a greater fool still, to think that I wielded it."* -to Rena after finally understanding to error of her ways

*"I do not expect you to forgive me for the things I have done... However, I do hope you will, at least, understand why I did those things... …And, in understanding, not make the same mistakes I did."* -to Rena, apologizing for her actions