Co-Protagonist

Magnus
Mags

Male

17 years

183 lbs

6'2"

Very dark brown

Medium length and curly. He likes it long but the castle servants always make him cut it to look more 'presentable'.

None

Dark, knowing blue

White, Human

Tanned from years of living under the sun in prairies and fields.

Tall, athletic, muscular. He is very strong from carrying logs around when he builds shelters in the forest.

His smirks. He has a fist-sized scar on his shoulder from being stabbed by a Savage Boar's tusks. Two pin-sized marks an inch apart from being bitten by a viper. He has many other scars as well from various battles.

Dark blue collared shirts

He has an unhealthy obsession with capes

Knee-high boots for slogging through mud

Ruffled shirts and baggy pants to conceal various weapons

He has a habit of pulling out one of his throwing stars and cleaning it when in the presence of an annoying person. This usually scares them away.

He loves his kingdom so much he left the throne for its own good.

Although he typically thinks before he acts, when somebody's in danger, he recklessly rushes in to save them.

He assumes that all Alterians are bad because he was born in the middle of a war with them. It's just how he was raised.

Fighting, knowing things, he can get almost any animal to trust him in a matter of days. Sometimes less.

Riding, archery (though he's bad at it), he loves practicing swordsmanship with his brother. They made up a game where they hide in a forest and try to ambush each other and shoot each other with rubber tipped arrows.

Non-judgemental, protective. He can be sassy and has a very colorful attitude about things he doesn't like.

He is an outgoing introvert. He enjoys being around people and talks a lot but he gets most of his energy from being alone.

He views wealth as an unnecessary but valuable resource that can either

Along with his family and most of his kingdom, he worships the Maker. The God who created everything. There are no rituals or sacrifices he has to do. All he does is give him his trust, his faith, and his heart.

He is very good at making people contradict themselves and can often put holes in anyone's arguments. He uses this talent to defend his brother when he gets in trouble with the jury and to argue his points. Although he is extremely gifted with a sword, he wants peace for his kingdom. He's getting tired of fighting. The war has gone on too long, it had to stop.

Prince

Dark grey. Most people think black is the color to blend in at night but that really just makes you a shade darker than everything else.

He loves wild plants and can make an entire meal out of roots and berries.

His sword. The steel blade is colored black and the hilt has a unique texture for better grip.

His custom-made sword

Calaen Horse

Protecting his younger brother, getting his brother out of trouble.

He was born in the fiercest winter night of the Year 233

He was raised and educated by the castle scholars.

Although he was a quiet boy, he was very mischievous and was the bane of the castle servants. When his younger brother was old enough to walk and talk, they played all sorts of tricks together. The law stated that the oldest child in a royal family had to be king or queen. Even his parents couldn't change that. Magnus saw that his little brother, Darren, was a natural-born leader. He saw a king in Darren that he had never seen in himself. When he was eleven, he formed a plan to run away to Calay, an abandoned kingdom southeast of his own. There are no human civilizations there because of the wild animals that roam the land. He stole a small skiff and rowed in the dead of night to the Old Land. He had been researching Calay for over a year and knows most of the edible plants, wild animals, and safe shelters to look out for. He gets word that his parents have scoured the land in their frantic searching and almost decides to return but then reminds himself of his promise. Eventually, he is presumed dead and his family's life continues on. He lived alongside the people of Wolfroke and becomes a master fighter after being trained by a runaway soldier named Rio. When he was fourteen, he rescued a Calaen Horse from a briar patch and although at first the stallion doesn't trust him, he learns to and they soon become inseparable. Magnus names the horse Carry Us, the name of another horse in an old Calaen legend. Sometimes at night, he rows back home in his stolen but faithful skiff and sees how his kingdom is doing. He misses his family terribly but he knows he did what he had to do to save his kingdom. One night, now seventeen, he hears that his parents were killed. He mourns for seven days in Calay and then goes home to see his little brother again. Darren, now fourteen, is overjoyed to see Magnus and grateful because the weight of the kingdom has now fallen on his shoulders and he needs someone to lean on.

A Calaen Horse named Carry Us