Asra

is a wandering magician and the your teacher in magic. there is history of romance between him and the you, as your first memory is of waking up in Asra's arms. He is intensely fond of the you. His patron Arcana is The Magician. Asra is a svelte young person with golden brown skin, fluffy white hair, and deep violet eyes. He has a mischievous grin, and dimples appear on his cheeks when he laughs. Asra is characterized by a wanderlust and curiosity that often leads him away on mysterious journeys, and he enjoys exploring faraway lands. he is often enigmatic and acts ambiguously, especially when pressed about your past. However, he confesses to hate keeping secrets from you, and refrains from telling you complete truths only to keep you safe. He is very devoted to and protective of you, admitting that he journeys partly to escape his overwhelming feelings for you, as he cannot tell you how he feels. At times Asra is difficult to predict, but he can always be depended upon to arrive whenever you need him. He is free-spirited and sociable, although ultimately private, preferring to spend his time alone or with only you. He has a mischievous sense of humor and enjoys teasing others, delighted when he makes them flustered. However, when the teasing is returned, or upon receiving genuine affection, he appears comically uncertain of how to respond. Carefree and content to live in the moment, Asra appears to dislike worrying about the future, and will remind you to do the same. Asra is the only child of Aisha and Salim, two magicians from the country of Zadith. As a child, Asra would develop magical powers. When Asra was still a child, Aisha and Salim were employed by the palace and tasked by Count Lucio to construct him a magical prosthetic arm. When it was completed, he had them both thrown in the dungeons, claiming that he didn't want anyone else to know the secret of how the arm worked. In truth, Lucio was instructed by the Devil to imprison the magicians, as he needed them for his own plans. While imprisoned, they were each visited by the Devil, who made deals with them to ensure the safety of their son and spouse; they failed to realize both of them would make the same deal and that it was all a trick until it was too late. Both were subsequently imprisoned, alongside their familiars, in the Arcana Realm for approximately twenty years.

When his parents failed to return from the palace, Asra was left alone and became one of many orphans on the streets of Vesuvia. Asra would begin living in a magical alcove under the docks. Seventeen years before the start of the game, Asra met Muriel, another orphan living on the streets, and the two became close friends. They eventually moved to a small hut in the woods, outside of the city. At some point, another magician gifted Asra with a snake egg. Faust would become Asra's closest companion and eventually his familiar. Eventually, he began to explore places beyond Vesuvia, as well as other magical realms. During his travels, he came to own a small adobe house in Nopal, which he last visited prior to the outbreak of the Red Plague Asra met the you nine years ago during a Masquerade. He had been giving fortunes and selling masquerade masks behind the shop when you met. Immediately after, you would watch Nadia's carriage as it arrived in Vesuvia. After this event, the two of you (you and Asra) are implied to have started something of a romantic relationship. You would continue to attend masquerades together, and Asra would eventually move in to your shop. Sometime during the outbreak of the Red Plague, you and Asra found yourselves arguing about whether or not to stay in Vesuvia. Ultimately you stayed behind to help the people, and Asra left for an undetermined amount of time. Upon returning, he found out you had died of the plague and had been cremated at the Lazaret. Broken by your death, he resolved to do one thing: bring you back. Following Lucio's demands and subsequent use of Asra's connection with Muriel to coerce him to work for the Count, he came to work in the palace to help find the cure for the Red Plague, hiding his true intentions from everyone. While there, he befriended the Countess Nadia and the doctor Julian, and entered into a physical relationship with the latter. The trio appear to have become very close, at one point celebrating Nadia's birthday and embarking on a trip together. Asra would use his time at the palace researching ways to bring you back to life rather than finding a cure. Both Muriel and Julian warned him of Lucio's ire, largely due to Asra's flippancy. Asra insisted that he needed the palace's resources, and that Lucio posed no real threat to him while sick. During his stay at the palace, it is clear that Asra missed you, carving your name into the trunk of his favorite tree. It was during this time that he gave Julian a raven statuette, which was similar to Muriel's bear figure and the fox, horned owl, and snake statues in his cottage in Nopal. At some point, the relationship between Asra and Julian came to an end, with both retaining resentment towards each other. All of Asra 's work in the palace led him to the night of the Masquerade, and his final goal: to bring you back. He went about the Masquerade as everyone else did; he was, however, readying himself for the ritual Lucio was going to perform to get himself a new body. During the ritual, Asra would meet with his patron arcana and deal for your new body. In return, he had to give half of his heart to them. As this new body was the same as the one Lucio wanted, Asra had to also sabotage the ritual. He would disrupt the part of the ritual that involved drinking Lucio's blood, by substituting it with pomegranate juice. Whatever else he did in regards to manipulating the ritual and his further actions during the rest of the Masquerade are unknown.

At some point, Asra asked Muriel to find Julian and take him to Count Lucio's rooms, which would already be ablaze when they arrived there. After your revival and horrific amnesia, Asra spent three years rehabilitating you and re-teaching you magic. Although he tried to restore your memory several times, remembering your past would send you into a catatonic state, and only the erasure of your memories would bring you back to normal. After attempting this several times, he gave up on trying to help you regain their memories out of fear of permanently damaging you. He settled for teaching you to meditate whenever remembering caused you to have headaches, warning you not to try and evoke your memory deliberately.

He frequently asked Muriel to check up on you while he was away on trips, despite Muriel's dislike of you. Nonetheless, you would always forget Muriel. Asra has a wide range of magical abilities. Magic in this universe seems to follow a 'Whatever you can imagine, you can make real' rule,