i haven't read the manga yet, only snippets of panels here and there so please do share some infos in the comments!
i've been mulling over this idea for a while now! is there a merlin kind of figure in the witch hat atelier verse? like a mysterious higher being in hiding! they leave evidences of their existence and the discovery of magic was their doing. no one actually knows where they go, what they're doing and if they're still alive. after all, the discovery of magic was long long before the day of the pact. no one had actually recorded the very first use of magic and no one knew who founded the use of silverwood tree for the ink used in casting spells. there must be someone who experimented on it before spreading it to the general public.
and because im constantly distracted from work, my brain juices suddenly created an oc of some sorts! (not really an oc, there's no appearance or name because i wanted them to be neutral if i ever use this concept on a story)
a witch living in a silverwood tree house, far from human civilization, wearing a brimmed hat that looks like it's been passed down generation to generation.
at first glance, qifrey thought they're one of the brimmed hats. it's impossible for someone to master spell casting without a casting seal, they must be a brimmed hat! but after witnessing a brimmed hat attempt to recruit them, only for this mysterious person to blast them away with a flick of their finger, a disgusted look on their face, all the while muttering about the inconvenience they brought to their peaceful abode.
others would expect this higher being to be intimidating and arrogant, but it's just a hermit who doesn't really like exploring outside their abode and loves to just spend the rest of their lives experimenting useless magic and lounging away on a tree branch with a book on their lap.
anyways, i'll brainstorm this in another day! i love to do a fic or two about this but that'll probably take a while lmao (im going to pretend i don't have a dozen of wips literally rotting in my docs)
