Kythos Naesa

*"It is both a blessing and a curse to feel something like to how power like this."*

Kythos Naesa is the Head Master of the School of the Cursed. He is the oldest amongst the Head Masters and supposedly the last person who interacted with Vargas before he disappeared. Kythos became the Head Master during the Dark ages for the Defiance Guild.

## Description

Kythos' actual appearance as a person is unknown has he has a veil over his face preventing those from seeing his face. He wears clothes similar to a combat mage and a witch mixed together. He has a black witches hat with two black feathers and various branches sticking out of it. He wears an odd golden golden star necklace that he seems very attached to. He wears dark grey and blue combat robes and carries two books at his sides these books are purple and gold respectively.

## Personality

Kythos is often classified as the mad scientist type as much like Vargas he also conducted experiments however instead of the forbidden arcane and the forgotten like Vargas, his research revolves around curses. He often takes a darker approach to solving problems and has an odd outlook on life almost as if he encourages others just himself to play with their own lives as if it were some sort of game. He is very insightful though despite his odd outlook as even other headmasters listen to his wisdom. He doesn't like Kannon for some reason and tries to sway the Head Masters along with the other Slayers that he is not to be trusted.

## Abilities

Kythos is a very powerful mage with some sort of strong connection to another entity as his magic seems very unearthly. Kythos is very cursed and holds a lot of more curses than the average person however it seems that he is not burden by them instead he benefits from them greatly. He does not possess a Slayers Art as he was not born with one nor got one passed down from the previous Head Master. He uses the power of curses in battle to both strength himself and cripple his enemies cursing them however it seems he like he has yet to control this power as these curses are long lasting on his enemies. Due to this he occasionally fights and when he does its only against monsters rather than sparring with people.

## History

Kythos is the eldest amongst the remaining Head Masters (excluding Vargas) as he was around a Mithril Rank Slayer back when Insurgence ran the guild. Kythos quickly rose the ranks along with Vargas back during the Dark Ages of the guild and eventually became the Head Master of the School of the Cursed by killing the previous Head Master of the school. He quickly began to change The School of the Cursed as before they used to learn and research how to remove their respective curse. Now the School focuses on how to empower one using the curse "bestowed" upon them using it as if it was some type of blessing rather than a curse. He was very close with Vargas he saw him as a research rival however they often collaborated with some research projects helping each other at times. Kythos was the last person to have spoke to Vargas before he disappeared however what they spoke about is not known as he does not share it with anyone and he actively advocates during the guild meetings that Vargas should not be replaced despite him disappearing for decades. Ever since Kannon as become the guild master and began to revive the guild from the Dark Ages there has been a lot of friction between the two of them and cannot trust Kannon at all. He has been very secretive lately and been doing a lot of things behind his back.