Name: Aria Windlock
Age: 16
Sex: Female
Gender: Female
Class: Aura Mage
Race: Human
Appearance:
Personality: Aria is friendly, curious, and experimental. Although open to new experiences, she usually finds herself overwhelmed by the situations she throws herself into. She is quick to abandon conventions, especially when given an example to follow. She often likes to try living like others, usually out of admiration. Aria sometimes has trouble establishing her own identity, as she is so dynamic, but regardless tries her best to grow as a person and learn what she finds important.
History: Aria comes from a village known for its magical academy. 95% of the population has magical abilities, and the remaining 5% are traveling merchants who deal in magical wares. Children born here always develop magical abilities due to the large intersection of laylines influencing the birthing process. Usually, this means that the children spend their days learning from magical tomes, and becoming wiser. However, Aria couldn't learn magic in the traditional way because she was born an aura mage, so she was always behind her class. Aria's parents, being adept mages, didn't understand why Aria had such problems with controlling her mana. They were among the first to understand that Aria's magic didn't work like her peers' through an extensive experiment, though the study failed to yield why. Most peculiarly, when casting magic, sometimes her mana didn't even leave her body at all. These differences, coupled with Aria's interest in girls lead to an overall confusion in Aria's life. Her parents were accepting enough of both issues, and although she was teased occasionally, Aria knew how to handle toxic people. However, she naturally wanted to understand why she was so different from everyone else. She spent a lot of time at the library and exploring through town, but couldn't even find hints toward the answer. Eventually, Aria learned from a passing merchant about aura mages, about how she was among the rare examples of them, and that she would be better suited learning through immersion with other races. After discussing the matter with her parents, a bit of debate and research, and some time, her parents agreed this was the correct course of action.
Other: Aria is lesbian.
Aura Mage Explanation: Aura mages are similar to regular mages, but derive their power from the aura; the energy exerted by something's existence. Aura is radiated by all living things, and Aura mages have the unique ability to utilize this power. Aura mages are an exceedingly rare class of human due to the highly particular nature of their birth. They can only be born on the intersection of magical leylines during a mana storm if both parents are accomplished mages. Even under these conditions, there can only be one aura mage born in the area of occurrence, and the chances of this occurring to anyone in the area of occurrence is only 5%. Not many, even among the magical community know how to properly identify an aura mage, so they are often mistaken for untalented mages.
Aura mages have widely varying and dynamic abilities. Because they draw their power from the aura, they are able to cast spells with greater freedom. Aura, unlike mana, doesn't require much instruction, and instead makes judgement calls like a sentient creature. The downside to this is that sometimes aura ignores the wishes of the user, especially if the user doesn't understand or accept it. Also, aura mages rely on aura to use spells, so if they don't stay near the source which they gained the spell, they can lose access to that spell. As a last resort, aura mages can still draw on mana to cast spells, but generally suffer from low mana output.