Mercury

## Overview

Mercury is the current Lord of Salutem and the son of Silver. Throughout his life, he has learnt many different types of magic. At a young age, he was blinded by a Demon who was fighting his father. During this struggle, he has ended up going on many adventures throughout his youth and learning how to use Seismic Sense. This would allow him to combat his blindness by using Earth Magic to feel everything around him.

### Personality

Throughout his life, Mercury has been stubborn and filled with a fighting spirit. Even in his adult years, he had arena's built specifically for warriors to compete and began the Salutem Magic Academy for people to learn magic and to do better for society. He has learnt much over the many years of his life and became a leader like his father.

### History

Mercury was born in Salutem with his parents being Silver and Zoey Cranfield. He had a natural skill with Earth Magic growing up but wasn't able to fully grasp neither Metal Magic nor Crystal Magic. Mercury decided to only focus on Earth Magic as his primary form of magic, though his mother taught him some of her Light Magic which he had limited skill in. His Earth magic excelled to the level where he can map out his surroundings perfectly by feeling the vibrations in the Earth. He had a happy childhood and idolised his father greatly and spent a lot of time studying ancient magic techniques in an attempt to be as strong as Silver. However, when he was only ten years old, his father's enemy, Matthias, a demon, attempted to kill his father. Most of Salutem was destroyed in the fight between him and Silver. Matthias murdered over half of Salutem's population, including Mercury's mother and sister, Zinc. As the fight was reaching its climax, Matthias blinded Mercury and let him squirm in rubble to die as he went to finish of his father. In a state of panic, he recalled an ancient spell he studied a while before which allowed someone to travel through time. In a horrific amount of pain, Mercury cast the spell and travelled back 23 years to when his father and mother were only 17.

### Magic

* **Earth Magic:** Mercury became so advanced with Earth Magic that he developed Seismic Sense, and became a master. He has used this magic throughout his life achieving increasingly greater feets. He is capable of complex terrakinesis as well as reshaping the Earth itself and changing it's density to create strong attacks and defences.
* **Light Magic:** Mercury's ability with Light Magic is very limited as he prefers to use Earth Magic over Light. From what he was taught, he can only emit big flashes of light and teleport short distances in daylight.
* **Time Stream:** Although Mercury didn't use this magic often, he used it to travel to through time to save his life when he was young. It's not a magic he likes to use as it puts a lot of strain on his body.

### Story

#### Beginning

During his time in the past, his father and mother went off to Salutem to start a new life and Mercury was stuck in the Creatha Kingdom and was loosely raised by his grandmother Kendall, who had a laissez faire way of parenting. Kendall helped him deal with the loss of this father and family and got him back on his feet to start being independent As he grew up, he fought with people a lot both in the kingdom's arena and the streets. Mercury has taken jobs for people to help them with bandits, and people who are a threat to the kingdom since he was 14.