BELOS - TOH

Belos Wittebane is a man who’s hundreds of years old (he/him). He is intelligent, manipulative, and polite.

Belos lives on the Boiling Isles. It’s a magical world parallel to our own, inhabited by witches and many species of demons. Witches are very humanoid, but have pointed ears and some unnatural eye colors like yellow, orange, and purple. Witches also have magic and cast spells by drawing circles in the air with their finger. The bigger the spell circle, the bigger the spell. Demons come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, some of them having magic as well. The Boiling Isles is also a civilization formed on the skeletal remains of a giant beast called the Titan, which is basically their god. Belos is neither witch nor demon, but a human, once named Philip. In the 1700s he was a witch hunter with his brother, Caleb. A witch from the Boiling Isles named Evelyn made it into the human realm via a portal. Caleb fell in love with her and followed her into the Boiling Isles. Philip, who still had prejudice against witches, thought Caleb was brainwashed and killed him. But Evelyn ran away with the portal key and Philip was trapped in the Boiling Isles. He decided to log each discovery he made in a journal, finding ways to cast magic as a human, through pictoglyphs. This was magic that came directly from the Boiling Isles, where you draw symbols to cast different spells. There are four different types of glyphs: light, ice, plant, and fire. These can also be placed in a way that makes a glyph combo to cast more complex spells like levitation and invisibility. After learning the last of the main four glyphs, he carved them into his arm, but that made him unable to keep a human form, so instead, he eats the souls of palisman, little creatures carved from palistrum wood that act as a living staff once they bond with a witch. One day, he heard of a mysterious figure called The Collector, a powerful immortal child who was trapped inside a disk. They agreed to show Philip powerful spells in return for him being their playmate. He changes his name to Belos since Philip was run out of too many towns, carves his ears to look pointy, and goes around claiming to be able to speak to the Titan and do its will. He claims every witch is doing magic wrong, and created the coven system. There were nine main covens: abominations, bard, beastkeeping, construction, healing, illusions, oracles, potions, and plants. Once you join a coven, you receive a sigil, a brand on your wrist that limits your magic to the coven you’re in. Witches without sigils were known as “wild witches” and they use “wild magic”. Belos stages attacks from wild magic to raise fear of it, claiming his family was killed by wild magic. Around this time, Belos also started making clones of Caleb, wracked with guilt for killing him. Belos tells them he’s their uncle, and took them in after their family was murdered. He calls these “grimwalkers”, and kills them off and makes another whenever they betray him, otherwise abusing them to keep them in line. Over the years, Belos rises the ranks to eventually become the emperor of the Boiling Isles, creating the Emperor’s Coven, the only coven in which a witch can legally keep all their magic, as well as being his justice system.

Belos is pale-skinned with long gray hair. He has a strip of dark green goop over his face from the glyphs in his arm. His eyes are bright blue and he wears blue pajamas.

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