Burry

Burry is a member of Shelter's personnel, more precisely one of the two persons in charge of the tavern and its cook, one of the 3 dateable characters and Luke friend and colleague.

## History

Burry was formerly an orphan that partook in gruesome experiment on magic in his youth, to the point he experimented on his own adopted siblings later under the order of the Crimson Royal Grove. However, he later left, utterly devastated by his actions, and during an aimless travel to the north, he met Luke, and they founded Shelter. While any of the personnel can be considered in charge of the whole place, he and Rune can be considered the first true directors of Shelter.

## Personality

Burry is a calm, caring man that is very attached to his friends. He is also very concerned for his friends. In the past, he used to shut down his own emotions, to let others believe he was stupid, all for the sake of keeping his mind busy, something he regrets. He deeply loved his adopted siblings, and he is disgusted by how far madness has brought him. He is deeply remorseful and doesn't like speaking about his past.

While very wise, he is not exempt of humor sometime and can also be flustered or awkward in some situations.

He is considered to be the most serious of the 3 main dateable character, showing a far less carefree demeanor than two others.

## Magical abilities

**Physical abilities:** Burry is among the physical strongest in Shelter, and while probably not as strong as Rune, he can hold his own in a combat against monsters.

**Emotional control** : Back when he worked with the wolves, Burry learned how to mask his true intentions and his emotions, letting others believe he was emotionless and simple. He is an expert at deceiving canine empathy.

**Magic prowess:** Burry is probably by far the greatest magic user in Shelter and probably the world as a whole, having trained in all of its aspects and performed long unethical research about its limit and the nature of monsters. He is capable of incredible feats of magic and has displayed numerous impossible skills at it. He knows a whole lot about the theoretical aspect of magic and Luke referenced him as the source of theoretical knowledge during Rune route.

* **Empathy:** Burry is capable of sensing presences and emotions through the canine gift of empathy, and can do so on any canine and on other species should he have enough time to get used to it.
	+ **Pack mentality**: Burry is apparently very talented at performing pack mentality, having trained himself with his brothers in his youth to the point there little he could learn from adults afterwards. He performs it with Luke afterward in his route.
* **Mana flow control**: Burry has a great control of the internal flow of mana into a living being, capable of stimulating mana flow for various purpose such as for relaxing massage or to heal mana-based deficiency, as he attempted to do so to cure Luke temporary blindness through this method. he can discharge mana through skin contact and through saliva.
* **Corruption healing:** Burry knows a method to heal corruption if it is below a certain threshold.
* **Mana-reinforced punch**: Burry punched Rune in the past with a punch imbued with mana.
* **Foreign mana usage**: Burry is skilled enough to absorb ambient foreign mana and use different racial gifts, although he may not be as talented in this domain as Rune, seemingly being more specialized in embers.
* **Spellcasting**: Burry is a talented ember user and has casted two ember during his route.
	+ **The unbreakable echelon:** a avian-canine ember that can teleport someone near an ally, something Burry does by throwing a knife containing avian mana.
	+ **Amicus Dei:** a canine ember employing human mana, capable of laying to rest the souls of loved ones turned into monsters if they are remembered post-transformation by breaking pieces of one's core. Afterward, the ember can be cast to summon those same souls that are "anchored on this side of the cycle" into a statue-like ice construct. He is the first and only person to ever cast it up to this day.

## Trivia

* Burry used to work for the wolves, at the Crimson Royal Grove. Because of his unsavory past with them that ended up with his siblings' death at his own paw, he has some minor prejudice against them, as shown with Alon.