Mages

## DESCRIPTION

**Mages** are witches, wizards, or sorcerers that populate the world of Astraea; basically anyone who practices and wields magic, using their energy to cast spells and employ magical objects. There are three kinds of mages' blood statuses: **Pure-Blood**, **Half-Blood**, and **Non-Blood**.

The mages' symbol consists of the three individual symbol for all blood statuses, with the triskelion representing the pure-bloods, the triquetra representing the half-bloods, and the triangles in the middle representing the non-bloods. The non-bloods' double triangle is also the combined alchemy symbols of the nature's four elements, Earth, Water, Fire, and Air.

## TYPES OF M**Λ**GES

#### Pure-Bloods

Mages of pure-blood are born to parents who are both mages. This makes them the most powerful type of caster, which is why they don't use wands and could channel magic straight from their hands- though wands are recommended for younger pure-blood mages to have more control. This is also why pure-bloods are considered to be the highest class. Pure-Bloods often go through physical changes, mostly brighter or different colored irises. Under this category are **Warlocks**, the most despised type of mage in Belvoire as they are known to abuse their magic just to get what they want. While pure-blood mages can cast any spell, Warlocks would struggle casting *Charms*, as mentioned by the Devil in *XX: Judgement*. Some of the known pure-bloods are Aerith, Kellan Xalvador, Artemus Blackquill, and Lucio Damaris, who was once a Warlock.

#### Half-Bloods

A mage is a half-blood if they are born to one pure-blood parent and one non-blood parent. Usually, half-bloods couldn't conjure magic straight from their hands and would need wands for their magic to work, though in some cases, they are capable. It's possible for a non-blood, or a human, to be a half-blood: if they are converted as a *familiar* by a mage. This is because magic goes deep within one's system and would alter their DNA, and because familiars are shapeshifters. That said, only mages of pure-blood could convert a mage of any blood status into their familiar. Sapphire Chauvera is a half-blood as she is born from a human mother and a pure-blood mage father; and Indirah Alnazar is Kellan's familiar who was converted by **Kieran** and **Faeryn Xalvador**.

#### Non-Bloods

Non-Blood mages are born to both human parents; therefore they wouldn't be able to wield magic just by their hands alone and would need a wand to help them cast spells. This blood status is known in Astraea to be the lowest class, as non-bloods are only humans with no magical abilities and could only be an *Earthling* with a wand. This insult, however derogatory, is somewhat true, since all non-bloods came from Earth. Xylon Lozano and Izaiah Alnazar are both non-bloods; Indirah was also a non-blood like her brother before she was converted as a familiar.

## TRIVI**Λ**S

* All the symbols are illustrated by writer **Kath Aguinaldo**, as well as the Elemental Houses'. She stated she wanted a symbol that could represent all the mages' blood statuses as a whole and came up with a combination of the *triskelion* and the *triquetra*.
* Austin Dy jokes that the non-blood's symbol looks like the Ku Klux Klan because of the double triangle.
	+ He is the one who pointed out that the double triangle is a combination of the main elements' alchemy symbols.
* There are more pure and half-bloods in Astraea than non-bloods since anyone could still have the slightest trace of actual magic in their DNA.
* Because Astraea is a "hidden world" and could only be accessed by those with magic, if **Everlee Melendez**, Kellan's cousin, would be selected to attend Belvoire, they would need to send another mage- preferably Kellan himself- to take Everlee to the academy.