Bury all my skeletons and let 'em stay dead

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“Becoming me was the greatest creative project of my life.”

Eliot is a man of many talents- he has an eye for design, is shown to be a skilled cook in addition to being very, very good at mixing drinks, many of which are concoctions of his own design. He’s also shown to be rather streetwise, able to pick out a hedge safehouse and navigate the return of a stolen book with little trouble. Due to his upbringing he uncharacteristically also knows a thing or two about farming, though he is loathe to admit it in any way, as the memories attached to the knowledge tend to lead him to want to self-medicate. Like most everyone in Brakebills, he’s ridiculously smart, though it’s hard to say just how smart as he’s not shown very often delving into the inner workings of spells. (Though he’s shown to have designed a couple doozies that show he’s no slouch in that department when properly motivated.)

His magical skill allows him to cast spells either through traditional-looking rituals with tools and incantations, or those with complex somatic movements. His specific discipline is Telekinesis, which falls under the umbrella of Physical magic. Using the ‘Levels’ list in this site as reference, I’d tag him as being at the advanced level of dexterity and mass/strength. However as is illustrated many times, and in his own words, ‘magic doesn’t come from talent, magic comes from pain.’ Thus, when Eliot is in significant emotional distress his power increases by leaps and bounds.

However the more power he channels, the more risk there is of ‘Niffing out,’ a phenomenon where the Magician loses control of the energy and the magic burns them out- leaving a Niffin; a being that while it resembles them still, even carries there memories, no longer is human, and is completely amoral, interested in only it’s own curiosity and uncaring of the pain they might cause others. (In fact some find great amusement in that outcome, and so are considered especially dangerous.) There is so far no reversing the process and no one capable of killing a Niffin, which means that they can only be sealed away, typically in a small box enchanted specifically for that purpose.

CANONPOINT: After 01x08
AGE: 24
HEIGHT: 6'2"
BUILD: Lean
HAIR: Black
EYES: Brown
APPEARANCE: Link
STATUS: Disaster
OCCUPATION: Grad Student
RESIDENCE: Brakebills

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