Mahou
Liaison to the Spirits
Mahou’s prickly insistence on respect conceals a gentle person worn down by bereavement. A wizard who can navigate the shifting Spirit Roads, he raised his orphaned nephew Akio hoping to give him peace, only to lose him to another war; his wife’s death deepened that despair. Malgor’s promise of an end to violence persuaded him to betray the guardians he knew. Facing his grief with help does not erase it, but restores enough hope for him to reconsider. Recognizing something of his own brokenness in Malgor, he wants to reach him through compassion, while accepting that he must help stop him if that fails.