Doctor Crow

Doctor Anthony Crow, more commonly known just as Doctor Crow, is an Associate Master, a Warlock granted the highest rank by the guild's grandmaster. He is a man with a mysterious past and a peculiar being, the mentor of young Toby Parker and one of the main protagonists of the Warlock's Apprentice series.

## Early life

Much of Doctor Crow's early life is unknown to the masses, although those few details that are spoken of are embedded into his allies' minds. He was left as an infant at the front step of a conductor's booth at Kings Cross Station, a railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, on the edge of Central London. While exacts are never mentioned of his upbringing, it is implied his childhood was relatively smooth up until a major event that turned Anthony into Doctor Crow.

## Mythreach Academy

When Anthony Crow was 19 years of age, he attended Mythreach Academy, a university of magic where the ways of the Mist were taught to standalone Warlocks all over the world. When he arrived in Mythreach, he already had a vast knowledge of magic and breezed through the majority of the courses, save for the alchemy and concoctions class, in which he failed and was forced to retake - nothing a bit of cheating couldn't solve, albeit.

During his second year at Mythreach Academy he met Henry Parker and his girlfriend, Elizabeth Lannister, a young woman with dreams of making the world a better place with her magic. However, as lessons grew more difficult and she was falling behind in class, Anthony offered help and became her tutor of sorts for two years, getting her through the majority of academy courses until the three of them - and their Dwarfen friend, Belch Nevershave - dropped out to join the Associates.

Albeit Belch left due to temptations of wealth in Diesel's Creatures, the other three went on to join the ranks of the holy order of Warlocks, the Associates, where they spent the rest of their magic careers. After Anthony Crow became recognized by the leader, Octavius Dragonharte, for essentially training two individuals to the skill and mastery equivalent to the skill of the Associates' highest rank, he was promoted to Warlock Master, where he finished out Elizabeth's official apprenticeship.

## The Great War

Henry Parker was Doctor Crow's closest ally, in and out of battle - several times every week they would go into town and get a drink with some other friends, and never had a single argument throughout the course of their friendship. However, despite their smooth relationship, the Great War still loomed ever closer and they would be forced to fight - the thought of Henry's death terrified Doctor Crow, but went on to fight at his side regardless. After the Darkblood Army invaded Mythreach (the Battle for the Silver City) and murdered King Alder Polaris, Henry was promoted to the rank of an MIPD General and given a set of their armor, to better prepare him for a solo mission in Parselwhip.

During this time that General Parker was aiding in the Parselwhip Blockade, Doctor Crow was in Atlantis with another close ally of his, Master Skylight, who he tries to keep talk of to a minimum in the modern day. It is implied that Doctor Crow faced Gilderoy Creed and Amadeus on several occasions through the series, although he confirms nothing and says not a word about the topic.

## Henry Parker's death

Following Henry Parker's death, Doctor Crow lost all contact with Elizabeth Parker and Belch Nevershave, and sunk into a deep depression that lasted several years - he had lost everything: his closest friend, his apprentice, his peers. It was a dreadful time in his life and on multiple occasions he almost resorted to black magic and taboo rituals to bring Henry back to life - he attempted once, and unleashed a demon inside of his apartment which was quite annoying to recapture before he decided it was best to leave Henry's soul at rest.

## Toby Parker

Doctor Crow was summoned by the silver whistle in the autumn following Toby Parker's thirteenth birthday - he was on his way back from the nearby ASDA supermarket when he was warped to the origin of the whistle's shriek, and appeared in his hearse some hundred meters above Lower Brixton. While the hearse itself took very minimal damage, he was a bit dizzy when he got out, hence assumptions that he was drunk upon meeting the boy.

For the past thirteen years, Doctor Crow had been supervising the boy - throughout his childhood, he had appeared in the form of a crow, watching from afar on each of his birthdays or important milestones in his life and keeping a close eye on his family. While Doctor Crow has had to fend off Darkbloods on several occasions (albeit Belch Nevershave has been doing so as well), he ran into very little trouble during these years of supervising the boy. When he was summoned, he was surprised to see how much Toby Parker had grown, but showed little hesitating before informing him of the magic in his blood.

During the frantic regathering of the Sprites of Magic in the Prisons of Magic, he grew quite close with the boy quite quickly, and despite their clear differences in personality and morals, they never had much disagreement throughout the first year of the apprenticeship. Even following the recapture, and moving forwards to their time spent in Parselwhip City and on the road pursuing Diesel Gasket, their relationship only continued to improve save for some minor arguments along the way, but it was nothing they couldn't get past quickly.

Toby Parker is quite simply everything to Doctor Crow - he would, without hesitation, throw himself in the way of clear danger if it meant saving his apprentice.

## Personality

Doctor Crow is a wise and knowing man, though, like his apprentice, sometimes devises less-than-practical ways to approach danger, often resulting in quite peculiar or questionable strategies in and outside of combat scenarios. Despite the strangeness that might surround him and the oddities that follow his every step, Doctor Anthony Crow is at heart a very caring soul who would do anything to help an individuals, even if he hates them. His opinion of laws are a debatable thing to many, but in his own words, he "does what's right, not what's legal", even if it means breaking the code of the Associates.

### Death

Doctor Crow has a love-hate relationship with death and has always possessed a peculiar calmness about the subject. Whenever his apprentice or his friends warns him of the risk of death in his plans or ideas, he brushes them off and does them anyway - he has little to no fear of death and it is unknown why to many.

## Physical Appearance

Doctor Crow is a tall, broad-shouldered man with a narrow face and hooked nose, easily recognizable by his magenta-hued eyes and signature mustache. He always dresses in the same attire - a slim-fit, wrinkled pinstriped suit, a fedora, and an array of colorful ties and socks that change out every day; sometimes, every time you look away. While his sense of fashion seems formal, it is typically dirty and unkempt - dirt on the lapels, ketchup stains on his tie, and a shadow on his chin and cheeks that give the impression of 24-hour work days.