The Codex of Creation (Darth Wiki)/Characters

Lawrence A. Gilder
Lawrence, a normal teenager, if a fairly nerdy one, in a town filled to the brim with mages, feels somewhat out of place after moving in. Despite this, however, he ends up making a few new friends, and, upon discovering the titular Codex of Creation, becomes a mage himself.

He is an only child, though his parents agree to let Serenity live with them, as their new house has an extra bedroom. He is a student at North Oakwood High School.

Associated tropes:


 * Ascended Fanboy: He's quite fascinated with magic at the beginning of the story, even though he has no idea how it actually works. He gets his chance to use it himself when The Codex of Creation turns him into a mage.
 * Audience Surrogate: Having been born and raised as a Muggle, when he does learn magic, there's quite a bit he doesn't understand about it. His friends are more than happy to explain to him (and by extension, the audience) how magic works in the setting.
 * Blow You Away: His elemental affinity is wind, so his spells are based on controlling air. This is an unusual example in that he can control all gaseous matter.
 * Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: One of his defining character traits is his tendency do things with magic without fully understanding it. The results tend to vary wildly.
 * For example, his first reaction upon seeing a strange spellbook is to pick it up and open it. Said spellbook is actually The Codex of Creation, and opening it releases Serenity and kicks off the main plot.
 * I Just Want to Be Special: He's always been somewhat jealous of mages and their abilities, and is quite thrilled to accidentally end up becoming a mage himself.
 * Simple Staff: A quarterstaff is his Weapon of Choice later in the story. He does tae kwon do as a hobby, and is thus quite good at using a a staff as a weapon.
 * The Smart Guy: He's usually the one to come up with a plan. Of course he's really not so much smart (his grades are remarkably average) as he is clever.

Nami Kosugi
One of the first people to befriend Lawrence when he moves in, Nami is Lawrence's new next-door neighbor. She is bright and cheerful, and readily helps out her new neighbors when they begin moving in, leading to her friendship with Lawrence.

Her mother, a mage, died in childbirth, and her father is a Muggle archaeologist who studies ancient magic for a living, and is frequently working late or, occasionally, out doing field work. As a result, she is quite often looked after by her family's housekeeper, Denise. She is a student at North Oakwood High School.

Her father's work brings a lot of various magical artifacts home, and she ends up showing them to Lawrence, leading to Lawrence's discovery of the titular Codex of Creation.

Associated Tropes:


 * But Not Too Foreign: She's the only person in Oakwood with Japanese heritage, and it's only on her father's side.
 * Death From Above: She's able to bring water from the clouds down on her opponents all at once.
 * Don't Touch It, You Idiot!: Only very mildly. She mentions that her father probably wouldn't like it if Lawrence touched any of the artifacts he brought home, but she's very gentle about it and doesn't stop Lawrence when he does inevitably mess with some of them. She does worry when Lawrence reads opens the mysterious book that her father brought home from his latest expedition to the Sahara Desert...
 * Genki Girl
 * Making a Splash: Her elemental affinity is water. Unusually, this means she can control any liquid matter, but it's usually water.
 * Meaningful Name: Her elemental affinity is water. Her name is Japanese for "wave."
 * The Pollyanna: Her key personality trait.
 * Shout-Out: Her father is a Japanese archaeologist with the surname "Kosugi." Yeah.

Charles "Chuck" Roland
Chuck Roland is a student of South Oakwood High School, and a star soccer player. He is Nami's long-time friend, and was for a very brief time her boyfriend.

He also is the descendant of Oakwood's founder, and son of the current mayor, and as such finds himself struggling to live up to the reputation that his ancestors worked so hard to build. This,, has put an enormous pressure on him, and more than anything, he just wants to lead a relatively normal life away from the demands of his ancestor's legacy.

He has a younger sibling named Ann.

Associated Tropes:


 * The Big Guy
 * Hidden Heart of Gold: He's got a reputation as being quite tough, and he's not going to give that up easily.
 * Jerkass Facade: He acts like a Jerkass deliberately for two reasons. One, he has a huge amount of pressure to follow in the steps of his no-nonsense father, the mayor of Oakwood, and two,
 * Meaningful Name: It's subtle, but it's there.
 * Playing with Fire: His elemental affinity is fire, naturally. He can create the light and heat of a fire without a combustion reaction.
 * Sinister Scimitar: His eventual Weapon of Choice, minus the "sinister" part. He also dual wields them.
 * Sinister Scimitar: His eventual Weapon of Choice, minus the "sinister" part. He also dual wields them.

Serenity Vulpes
Serenity is the "Guardian of the Codex," tasked with protecting the Codex of Creation and making sure that it never falls into the wrong hands. She is summoned as soon as the titular Codex is opened, and immediately tasks herself with making sure that nobody else is able to use it. She is from a mysterious race of Precursors that existed hundreds of thousands of years before humanity evolved.

Other than her name and her mission, she knows very little about her past, as apparently being dormant for hundreds of thousands of years will wreck your memory. She has little more than a vague recollection of what her life as one of the Precursors was like before being sealed away, and ends up a Fish Out of Water trying to learn how the modern world works.

She is also a shapeshifter, capable of turning into a fox, an act which seemingly defies the one law of magic, the inability to create or destroy matter. As she learns more about the Codex and her past, she gains new abilities, including a Partial Transformation ability, and the ability to transform into other animals as well, though not without limitation. Despite being able to do shapeshifting magic to change her own form, she does not know how to use elemental magic as the rest of the cast can and thus cannot manipulate matter in a way that doesn't involve transforming herself.

Associated Tropes:


 * Aliens Speaking English: Despite being older than mankind itself, she's remarkably fluent in modern English. This is Handwaved by saying that whoever breaks the seal on the Codex of Creation by attempting to read it will unconsciously transmit any languages they know to the Codex Guardian.
 * Ditzy Genius: As opposed to Lawrence, who is Book Dumb but somewhat clever, Serenity is very good at mathematics and can make complex calculations without the use of a calculator, but has absolutely no clue how the modern world works. Apparently math isn't one of the things her Laser-Guided Amnesia made her forget.
 * Fish Out of Temporal Water: She's been dormant for longer than humankind has existed, and initially has no idea how human civilization works. Hell, due to her Laser-Guided Amnesia she initially has no idea how her own civilization worked.
 * Human Aliens: Well, technically, she's one of the Precursors to humankind, but she looks exactly like a human. Well, in her humanoid form, at least.
 * Last of Her Kind: She's the last of a race of Precursors that existed long before humans ever did.
 * Little Bit Beastly: She sometimes does this after learning how to do a Partial Transformation.
 * The Mind Is a Plaything of the Body: When fully transformed into an animal, she tends to gain the instincts of said animal. For example, when turned into a fox she tends to chase after various insects and small mammals.
 * Mysterious Waif
 * Pocket Dimension: She has the innate ability to store the Codex of Creation in one of these and summon it at will. Anyone else however, can immediately summon the Codex by killing her.
 * Shrinking Violet
 * Shrinking Violet

Namformae in General
The Namformae are a strange race of Human Aliens that seem to possess the same kind of shapeshifting magic that Serenity has. They make their intentions quite clear from the very beginning, they intend to take possession of the Codex of Creation and bring it to their leader. Though most of the Namformae encountered lack the capability to shapeshift and serve as Mooks, the stronger Namformae do change form and will quite often become the Monster of the Week, or even part of a Quirky Miniboss Squad.

Associated Tropes:


 * Insufficiently Advanced Alien: The Namformae appear to rely mainly on melee weapons, and the ranged weapons they have are remarkably weak. They've apparently been in a state of decline for a long time, and seek the Codex of Creation to help improve what they know.
 * Lost Technology: Their technology has regressed greatly, and now they're apparently stuck at technology levels akin to Earth's 16th century. What little advanced tech they have left is quite literally from hundreds of thousands of years ago.
 * Mook Chivalry: Justified. Due to the limits of their teleportation technology, they can only send small squads of soldiers at a time, and they cannot land their mothership directly as they will attract the attention of the military.

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