| “ | Maybe I’ll be playing hide-and-seek for all eternity, who knows? So long as I can do it with you. | ” |
— Hilda to Austen, Moments of Eternity
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Austen Starheart is a character who first appears in The Lost, The Forgotten, mentioned occasionally.
Appearance[]
He is described as a ginger-haired Astral Fairy, having amber eyes similar to his son. His hair is notably messy, he has large white wings, and he has pointed, elven-like ears. His tail is similar to Luce's, but more silky than fluffy, creamy yellow, and longer.
Personality[]
He is a calm and cautious person, only shown to be affectionate towards Hilda but later marrying an Ice Fairy for no known reason. Additionally, he neglected to visit his family as Gale never met him in person, possibly because of his position's low income and constantly having to work to support them.
He's a very aware person, knowing near all of what happens in the Academy with or without "the book". He has been to proven to have an excellent memory as he is mentioned to have memorized the Archives, as well as the passageways that run through the Academy walls.
Despite all this, he's mentioned to be very lighthearted around those he's close to, maybe even a tad childish. However, he has no problem putting his foot down, shunning a person he believes done wrong until they make up for their mistake.
Weapons/Gear[]
Astral Amulet (Former)
Academy Amulet: He still has it, meaning he can return to the Academy any time he wishes. Yet, he choses not to.
Crystal Earring: Due to marrying an Ice Fairy, he wears one according to tradition.
Academy Robes (Former)
Mage Robes: Robes normally worn by foreign healers, threaded with oddly specific metals and decorated with even more specific minerals. The metals and minerals seem to have some sort of a connection with specific elements...
Academy Uniform Shoes (Former)
Swift Boots: For moving silently. He really doesn't want to talk to people.
Celestial Bow: A longbow variant, roughly half his height. He's quite skilled with it, and Snow is note to often slither onto arrows - typically leading to someone receiving a nasty bite.
Abilities[]
Inherited[]
Fae/Fey Stepping: An ability that fairies and faeries have, triggered by instinct. It causes them to teleport a short distance away, bringing them to safety, or in some cases, behind the opponent for an advantage.
Prehensile: His tail is prehensile, but he has a very lose grip.
Strength: Like all other fairies, he's two times stronger then a human/wizard
Flying
Balance/Agility
Astral Magic
Healing: He heals more rapidly than normal, able to cast this effect on others for brief periods. However, this has a downside, as there's no way to for him to cancel this effect towards himself unless there is no body to heal.
Miscellaneous[]
Keeper's Crest (Former): Gained when becoming apprenticed to the current keeper. It greatly increases one's Mana, allowing them to cast spells that'll normally cause them to faint. However, the ability is lost upon retiring or quitting.
Strengths and Weaknesses[]
Element Synergy[]
The 
Astral element is weak against:
- Nothing
This element is powerful against:
Shadow entities/spells
This element is neutral against:
- Earth entities/spells
- Ice entities/spells
- Storm entities/spells
- Fire entities/spells
- Water entities/spells
- Astral entities/spells
Additional[]
Strengths[]
Memorization: He can easily memorize varying things, and quite much of it.
Herbalist: He studied (faen) medicine due to his skill in healing. However, he doesn't know anything about western medicine.
Weaknesses[]
Other People: Due to his current state, he tends to avoid others as he has difficultly explaining things, as well as the fact they become fearful when they discover he is, to an extent, partially dead. Where he currently resides is unknown, but it's most likely well away from public.
Gale: For quite some time, he was lead to the belief the Ivory was dead. Now, he's not sure how to feel about having a son, especially one he's never had the opportunity to father.
Lore[]
Watching[]
A figure moved silently through the trees, a long tail rippling through the branches as it provided them balance. There were occasional flashes of white in the nearby leaves, following the figure as they steadily progressed across the island.
That is, at least until voices came from below.
They stopped, the white creature slithering onto a branch next to them and onto their shoulders, hissing in their ear to urge them on. This recommendation, however, was ignored as the figure pricked their ears to listen to the voices more carefully.
Below were the island's newest residents, a cluster of elemental-based beings the resident deity tended to. Specifically, the luminous yellow one was speaking with a water nymph.
"I do not care-"
"Well, if we're going to be stuck here, I think we should at least find out who's spying on us."
"Well, they've never done anything, and no one's ever seen them. How do we know you weren't imagining things?"
"Astral, you know as well as I do that I do not hallucinate. Are you sure you don't think I'm Storm?"
"Hey!" Exclaimed a particularly static Ivory Fey, them momentarily fluttering into the air.
Astral crossed his arms, "I still doubt they're real-"
"Sweetie, I bet you'll doubt your very existence if we let you," commented a purple-black she-demon.
"Don't call me-"
"I can always go back to calling you 'Thing.'" She responded smugly.
The creature in the branches lightly nipped the figure's ear, them sighing as they continued on. They headed deeper and deeper into the island until reaching a set of lived-in caves, finally departing from the branches and leaping to the floor.
In the light, it was possible to see they were a tall, male Astral Fairy with messy and long ginger hair, which he had vainly attempted to first tie in a bun, failing to gather the mass and settling for braiding the rest. He wore foreign-looking robes with crystals and metal fibers decorating them, and a single earing on his left ear. The white creature - which had turned out to hail from a smaller breed of Prodaxi - slithered down his arm before patiently waiting for him to crouch and allow it onto the floor.
He and the snake-like creature retreated into the caves, where flowers growing in the openings that acted as windows, a fire was lit in a fireplace carved into the stone, and the moss gave the place a rustic look as the fairy sat down on the cot tucked into the corner.
Home sweet home.
He couldn't help but glance up at the opening in the roof, gazing at the floating island that loomed over the forest canopy.
There, blissfully unaware of the fairy, roamed his descendants while he remained forgotten.
And that is the way it'll stay.
Trivia[]
- He is one of the few characters from the ROTW (The Return of the Wardens) series who has never made an in-roleplay appearance, there only being brief mentions of him in fanfictions. However, his pets have had multiple appearances, and it is planned for him to make an appearance in the upcoming Void RP.
- He's Ice's original owner, dating her well over a hundred years old.
- Due to not actually being fully alive, he appears as deceased in the book.
- His outfit is based on Baizhu from Genshin Impact, who is ironically the guardian of a zombie.
- He currently keeps a magically disabled Prodaxis for company, her name being Snow.
- He was originally killed by Luce while the former was still the Puppet Master. This occurred due to Shadow not wanting him to interact with Gale.
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