Fenkirk Malvado

Concept: magic works on conceptualized faith, knowledge mixed with belief; you have to understand the spell, and then you can cast it if your will is strong enough to force it into reality. The words and motions to bring a spell out are focuses and crutches, not the spell itself; it doesn't really matter what you say or how you move your hands, just that you know what you're trying to do and you have conviction.

Fen is considered a scholar of esoteric magic, he crafts his own spells from the world around him as he needs them, and his movements and words are based on whatever he needs to keep his will focused; for example, his version of High Umbervuld's Emotional Turmoil spell, which causes the target to instantly, and sometimes painfully, realize the damage their actions are causing to the world around them, is performed with a simple movement of his staff and the words "Bolivar Trask".

Yes. All of Fen's spells are references to comics: for Oppen Moon's Shape-Shift he moves his hand over his own faces and says "Raven Darkhölme" while visualizing what he wants to become. For the more monstrous Oppen Moon's Beastly Form, he hunches down on all fours and says "Phillip McCoy".

Some of his peers feel his obsession with comics shows a lack of understanding of the seriousness of magic, though others believe that the fact that he can perform complex rites and wizardry while boiling down the main verbal and physical components to a simple memetic show a deep connection with both himself and the spells.