Knights of Paladia: Mystin

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Mystin

Sex Mare
Race: Unicorn
Approx age: 22
Cutie Mark: Arcane triangle with an ice crystal in the middle and the other 3 elements on each corner.

Mystin is the youngest of the “Squires” but likely the most powerful of the group where magic is needed. She is the team’s battle mage wielding elemental magic like a well seasoned caster. Even as her position as squire, she is often looked to when massive force is needed. Most of the time she must hold back to avoid collateral damage. She tailors her spells to the situation excelling in both single target and area of effect spells. Ice spells are part of her special talent and her favorite to cast even for her own personal entertainment. This however doesn't limit her in the other 3 elements and even a few minor arcane spells. If powerful spells are not needed she can remain useful in a support role providing elemental shields and weapon enchantments. Mystin does not tire easily when casting spells as her training has conditioned her to manage channeled spells even alongside quick bursts of magic needed in combat situations. Mystin is not without her shortcomings however. She is not a happy pony and bares a past nearly as complicated as Starfyre. Wearing a neutral expression 90% of the time and a scowl the other ten, many find her unapproachable. For this reason she hasn't bonded very well with the others of her team. She will not share stories on story night, play games with the group on game night, and only pull out her violin for music night at Spiritsongs behest. Spiritsong is the only pony to know anything deeper about Mystin gaining knowledge about the young mare only after surprising her with knowledge of a song she had thought long forgotten. If not with Spiritsong, she will keep to herself either reading or training.

Much of Mystin's past is known only by a select few ponies. She is the sole survivor of a small clan of nomadic ponies that live in the wilds that largely separates Paladia and Equestria from the rest of the world. Barely old enough to have her cutiemark, she was taken in by a mysterious pony named Odo Spellshaper who saved her from the burning remains of her village. Raising her as his own daughter, he taught her all he could about magic but focused his efforts on elemental magic once he saw what talent she possessed for casting such spells. However his teachings could only take her so far and at her mentor's wishes, traveled the world to seek out new magic and teachings. Her journeys were wrought sorrow however, many of the friends and lovers she had taken during her travels dying before her. She returned to Odo's tower only to find her mentor had taken ill. Before his passing, Odo set Mystin on another path for knowledge, one he felt she would need if she were to ever recover from dark path she had begun to walk. Heeding her mentor's advice, she traveled to Equestria to start her mentor's final test. Her test however would soon send her to Paladia to seek out Gustave and insist that she join the band of knights he was putting together. Gustave welcomed the young mare with open hooves.

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