#very small!!!!

[donamasu]

Magic-user Chilchuck - Early on, he happens to encounter code-breaking magic, which is lock-picking taken to its logical extreme. Skeptical but intrigued, he seeks out mana practice (training that increases mana capacities, within reason) then de facto founds a new magic style that minimizes mana and maximizes impact. Why kill with an explosion when a thousandth of the mana can interrupt a cardiac electrical circuit, causing immediate death? Hypothetically, of course.

His magic work causes strife with some half-foot factions, as well as catalyzes regular audits from western elves. Since "half-magic" (derisively coined by elves and tongue-in-cheek used by half-foots) uses so little raw power, their charges levied never pan out. He's been subtly threatened more than once by them for getting into subpractices that use too much power, though. So, he keeps his work proprietary, under incredible lock and key. The price is the barrier this creates for training new half-magic users.

Chilchuck is still fundamentally a lock-pick and navigator, but he can crack magic locks, navigates using charmed maps, and holds his own in mediation against the long-lived races. His name is bigger than he'd like. Rumor has it that he's carried out assassinations using untraceable small magic. (He can't meaningfully deny the hearsay, so he doesn't try, but he keeps his head down.) By the time he joins the Toudens, he loathes elves, but also has some envy. As he ages, he realizes how little time he has left to document and transmit his work to other half-foots.