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* HedgeMage: Callum regularly bemoans the fact that he hasn't had any of the basic education that most mages have. However, since that education involves a mandatory draft with a 33% casualty rate -- and most of the deaths are among those who don't join an established House or guild -- he chooses to flee and live undercover, picking up scraps of magical knowledge where he can find them, and practising his own techniques. As a result, when he does clash with other mages, his abilities are quite lopsided; he can surprise them with things they didn't think were possible, like firing guns through portals for instant [[BoomHeadshot headshots]], but he would be quickly overwhelmed in a straight fight, lacking shields and being slow and unskilled and weak at forming regular magical constructs.
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* BloodMagic: Archmage Huitlizin has a specialisation in blood control, and no one wants to fight him. [[spoiler:Against weaker opponents, he can simply take control of their blood and turn them into puppets, or stop it flowing and kill them on the spot. For stronger opponents, a drop of his own blood can become a projectile that forces itself into the other's body, mingles with their blood, and makes it his, at which point he can ''tear all their blood out'' and leave them a dry withered husk. Defensively, his blood can resist impacts more strongly than steel, his wounds don't bleed, and he can drag his own body around at high speed to dodge attacks.]] And although he's kind and grandfatherly, he's also very old, coming from a time when mercy was less obligatory.
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* BloodMagic: Archmage Huitlizin has a specialisation in blood control, and no one wants to fight him. [[spoiler:Against weaker opponents, he can simply take control of their blood and turn them into puppets, or stop it flowing and kill them on the spot. For stronger opponents, a drop of his own blood can become a projectile that forces itself into the other's body, mingles with their blood, and makes it his, at which point he can ''tear all their blood out'' and leave them a dry withered husk.husk -- or he can wield their own vis, creating spellforms with their aspect, which he wouldn't normally have access to. Defensively, his blood can resist impacts more strongly than steel, his wounds don't bleed, and he can drag his own body around at high speed to dodge attacks.]] And although he's kind and grandfatherly, he's also very old, coming from a time when mercy was less obligatory.
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* SoProudOfYou: Felicia [[spoiler:receives a tiny scroll, delivered by a Cait Sidhe, bearing just two words: "Well done". She knows immediately that it's from her father, Oberon, and is touched that her parents approve of what she's been doing despite her having run away from home.]]
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** Turns out that combining mundane weaponry with magical portals is incredibly effective. Callum's combat debut is [[spoiler:firing guns through tiny portals to [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] an entire nest of vampires ''and'' their supporting mage, without them seeing him coming despite their SuperSpeed]]. He only gets more dangerous from there, using portals to precisely launch everything from boulders to filing cabinets to torrents of lava.
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** Turns out that combining mundane weaponry with magical portals is incredibly effective. Callum's combat debut is [[spoiler:firing guns through tiny portals to [[BoomHeadshot headshot]] an entire nest of vampires ''and'' their supporting mage, without them seeing him coming despite their SuperSpeed]]. He only gets more dangerous from there, using portals to precisely launch everything from boulders to filing cabinets to torrents of lava. [[spoiler:Once he and Lucy decide it's time to officially consider their little family "House Wells", she provides a coat of arms she invented that consists of a portal torus with a projectile aimed through it.]]
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* BloodMagic: Archmage Huitlizin has a specialisation in blood control, and no one wants to fight him. [[spoiler:Against weaker opponents, he can simply take control of their blood and turn them into puppets. For stronger opponents, a drop of his own blood can become a projectile that forces itself into the other's body, mingles with their blood, and makes it his, at which point he can ''tear all their blood out'' and leave them a dry withered husk. Defensively, his blood can resist impacts more strongly than steel, and his wounds don't bleed.]] And although he's kind and grandfatherly, he's also very old, coming from a time when mercy was less obligatory.
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* BloodMagic: Archmage Huitlizin has a specialisation in blood control, and no one wants to fight him. [[spoiler:Against weaker opponents, he can simply take control of their blood and turn them into puppets.puppets, or stop it flowing and kill them on the spot. For stronger opponents, a drop of his own blood can become a projectile that forces itself into the other's body, mingles with their blood, and makes it his, at which point he can ''tear all their blood out'' and leave them a dry withered husk. Defensively, his blood can resist impacts more strongly than steel, and his wounds don't bleed.bleed, and he can drag his own body around at high speed to dodge attacks.]] And although he's kind and grandfatherly, he's also very old, coming from a time when mercy was less obligatory.
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* FalseFlagOperation: Once it becomes clear that The Ghost will act against supernaturals who threaten regular people, there are attempts to plant evidence on political rivals and have him take them out. [[spoiler:Fortunately, he's paranoid enough to do his homework and catch them out. Toclerane, who merely exaggerated a neighbor's activities, gets humiliated. Constance, who launches a careful campaign with actual deaths to back it up, puts herself squarely in Callum's cross hairs.]]
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** Once it becomes clear that The Ghost will act against supernaturals who threaten regular people, there are attempts to plant evidence on political rivals and have him take them out. [[spoiler:Fortunately, he's paranoid enough to do his homework and catch them out. Toclerane, who merely exaggerated a neighbor's activities, gets humiliated. Constance, who launches a careful campaign with actual deaths to back it up, puts herself squarely in Callum's cross hairs.]]
** A mixed assault force of magical and mundane troops turns out to actually be a political trap, when [[spoiler:the mages explode a number of mundane troops, as if a bomb had gone off, which will appear at a glance to be Chester's fault.]]
** Once it becomes clear that The Ghost will act against supernaturals who threaten regular people, there are attempts to plant evidence on political rivals and have him take them out. [[spoiler:Fortunately, he's paranoid enough to do his homework and catch them out. Toclerane, who merely exaggerated a neighbor's activities, gets humiliated. Constance, who launches a careful campaign with actual deaths to back it up, puts herself squarely in Callum's cross hairs.]]
** A mixed assault force of magical and mundane troops turns out to actually be a political trap, when [[spoiler:the mages explode a number of mundane troops, as if a bomb had gone off, which will appear at a glance to be Chester's fault.]]
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* ThrowingDownTheGauntlet: Taking control of part of the Ways involves issuing a challenge to the spirit that governs the area, to either submit or prove its dominance.
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* CounterAttack: Felicia is a little surprised that [[spoiler:Prince Jusael]] tried to attack Callum's home, since that means The Ghost is perfectly justified -- both politically and magically, by fae rules -- in retaliating and removing him.
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* CounterAttack: Felicia is a little surprised that [[spoiler:Prince Jusael]] tried to attack Callum's home, since that means The Ghost is perfectly justified -- both politically and magically, by fae rules -- in retaliating and removing him. [[spoiler:After killing the spy/assassin who tried to infiltrate his portals, Callum ambushes Jusael in his own realm, flooding him with anti-mana and then blasting him with ultra-high-speed corite bullets.]]
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* RocketTagGameplay: If Callum doesn't kill his target instantly or at least within seconds, he'll probably have a bad time of things, since he doesn't have much raw power or ability to defend against standard combat magic. In most cases, however, he ''can'' kill that fast. [[spoiler:Even Archmages and fae princes.]]
--> '''Callum:''' Pitched battles aren't really my thing.
--> '''Callum:''' Pitched battles aren't really my thing.
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* CounterAttack: Felicia is a little surprised that [[spoiler:Prince Jusael]] tried to attack Callum's home, since that means The Ghost is perfectly justified -- both politically and magically, by fae rules -- in retaliating and removing him.
--> '''Felicia:''' That is ''precisely'' your story and it would not be at all unfair.
--> '''Felicia:''' That is ''precisely'' your story and it would not be at all unfair.
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* ISurrenderSuckers: Subverted by a fae who attempts to keep attacking after surrendering and swearing loyalty; its oath triggers and kills it on the spot.
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* MagicallyBindingContract: A fae attempts to make a surprise attack after surrendering and swearing loyalty, but promptly withers away to dust.
--> '''Felicia:''' Oaths are not to be taken lightly.
--> '''Felicia:''' Oaths are not to be taken lightly.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Once an army of fae is cornered, some of them scream at Felicia in a language Ray doesn't recognise -- only to be torn apart by the other nearby fae, who want to be allowed to surrender.
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* EldritchLocation: The portal worlds don't quite have the same physics as Earth. Upon Callum's first visit to one, he finds himself on a cliff overlooking an apparently ''endless'' empty expanse, with no sun and yet light coming from the whole sky. Which may be partly a result of the fact that the portal worlds are overflowing with mana. The terrain of the Night Lands flickers and changes whenever the moon pulses, and the LandOfFaerie is as capricious as you'd expect.
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* EldritchLocation: The portal worlds don't quite have the same physics as Earth. Upon Callum's first visit to one, he finds himself on a cliff overlooking an apparently ''endless'' empty expanse, with no sun and yet light coming from the whole sky. Which may be partly a result of the fact that the portal worlds are overflowing with mana. The terrain of the Night Lands flickers and changes whenever the moon pulses, and the LandOfFaerie is as capricious as you'd expect. The most valuable and indispensable service that Archmage Duvall provides is her ability to stabilise areas of the portal worlds so they're safe for human habitation.
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* MundaneUtility: Having a telekinesis focus item means it's almost always Callum's turn to change nappies.
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** Having a telekinesis focus item means it's almost always Callum's turn to changenappies.nappies.
** Being able to alter how gravity affects an object has all sorts of applications. Callum uses it to play tag with his two year old (which is much more challenging when the two year old can jump off walls and ceilings).
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** Being able to alter how gravity affects an object has all sorts of applications. Callum uses it to play tag with his two year old (which is much more challenging when the two year old can jump off walls and ceilings).
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* TakingYouWithMe: Once it's too late to actually win, [[spoiler:the vampires still on Earth go on a public rampage, slaughtering as many people as possible before mage teams can take them down.]]
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* AntiMagic: [[spoiler:Callum's portal experiments lead him to discover a realm of "anti-mana" that rapidly strips magic from whatever it touches. Fortunately the process is not self-sustaining after he closes the portal. It later becomes his go-to countermeasure for opponents too powerful to fight directly, from arch-mages to fae royalty; just open an anti-mana portal and wreck their everything.]]
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* AntiMagic: [[spoiler:Callum's portal experiments lead him to discover a realm of "anti-mana" that rapidly strips magic from whatever it touches. Fortunately the process is not self-sustaining after he closes the portal. It later becomes his go-to countermeasure for opponents too powerful to fight directly, from arch-mages to fae royalty; just open an anti-mana portal and wreck their everything. Archmage Duvall takes one look at it and swears off ever coming near him again.]]
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* CompellingVoice: Felicia reacts to a fae getting handsy by telling him, "Stop" -- which freezes not only him and all the fae around him, but also nearby butterflies and drifting flower petals. [[spoiler:Because she's not just another fae, she's the princess of Faerie, and has been gradually accepting her own power.]]
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** Callum makes sure that home has [[spoiler:a panic button for the shifters and Gayle ''and'' a teleport pad that Lucy can activate. She assumes they'll use it for Alex at some point, but he insists it be usable for any of them]]. Which is the only thing that saves his life when [[spoiler:he's hit with a negative healing pulse trap and is on death's door]].
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* TheDreaded: Callum's extraordinarily effective assassinations (because spatial magic lets him [[DungeonBypass ignore defences]]) earn him the nickname of The Ghost, and although he thinks it's a silly name, everyone else takes it seriously. Even that is nothing, though, compared to the reaction after he [[spoiler:kills multiple archmages]]. Even the greatest mages and fae kings of the world don't want to draw the ire of the apparently unstoppable killer.
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-> By the time you read this far, The Ghost has already moved on.
-> By the time you read this far, The Ghost has already moved on.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Chester remarks on how there's not much to see at this end when Callum is working via portals; he just seems to be sitting and concentrating. Lucy agrees that "He's going to kill [[spoiler:Ravaeb]] with the power of his mind. Plus a huge gun we picked up."
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* ATragedyOfImpulsiveness: Because GAR treated Callum Wells like a criminal slave, dragging him into a "test" that was just shy of torture, tattooing him against his will when he was unconscious, and pushing him around like a moron, demanding he end his civilian life or be declared Rogue and face execution, Callum Wells '''went rogue'''. He bolts at the first opportunity, destroying GAR infrastructure to punish them every time they try to get a handle on him, and when GAR decides to mess with someone he likes or turn a blind eye to mundanes suffering thanks to supernatural shenanigans, ''that's when he gets mad.''
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* MundaneUtility: Having a telekinesis focus item means it's almost always Callum's turn to change nappies.
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* TheMenInBlack: Callum refers to the Bureau of Secret Enforcement agents as the "Mages in Black" in an explicit reference to this trope.
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* TheMenInBlack: Callum refers to the Bureau of Secret Enforcement agents as the "Mages in Black" in an explicit reference to this trope.
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* KingIncognito: [[spoiler:Felicia the detective is actually the princess of Faerie, who didn't really want to rule but steps up because the world needs her.]]
