Raphael

Raphael Amian is a powerful wild mage and the Lord Magus of Ysthar. He is the main character of Till Human Voices Wake Us. His satall is a phoenix named Ishaa.

Early Life
Raphael is the son of Damian Raskae and Pharia Cloudbringer. He has three older siblings, Ulass, Cael, and Tefenadar, a twin brother, Kasian, and two younger sisters, Liassa and Sharien. His birthday is on the winter solstice. During his childhood, he was friends with Heloise, who would later name herself Circe.

Raphael was born with the ability to hear the song of creation. As a young child, he wanted to study music, but his father forbid him. Raphael decided to study anyway in secret. He apprenticed with masters from eight to fourteen years old. The last few years, he submitted songs he had made to the Emperor's music competition as 'The Anonymous Master of Astandalas'. The last year before the Fall, he won with his song 'The Garden of Light'.

When he was thirteen, his grandmother and his cousin Gabriel came to live with them. His grandmother disappeared a few weeks later, after laying a powerful magical protection on their whole family. She did this because Gabriel's family had been murdered and she wanted to prevent that from happening again. The cost of the spell was her life, or possibly her ability to stay with her family.

On Raphael's fourteenth birthday, his father disowned him. Either the same day, or the next day, he was kidnapped by Maugraian, a wizard practicing dark magic. The protections laid on his family by his grandmother didn't protect him because he had been disowned. Raphael was kept for three days while enchantments were placed upon him to ready him to be a sacrifice for a powerful spell. Maugraian was stopped by his son, Tavin, before the ritual was completed. The half-finished spell went awry, causing the Fall of Astandalas.

After the Fall
Raphael woke after the Fall to the desolation of Ysthar. He found that he had powerful wild magic.

As Lord of Ysthar, Raphael worked to protect and rebuild the world's magic, which had been shattered by the Fall. He didn't concern himself with politics, but did enforce rules forbidding the use of magic to cause great harm. For instance, he turned the Lord of Daun's nephew into stone for trying to conquer Persia by magic.

Raphael's House
Rapheal lives in a house he built himself, and enchanted so no one else could see it unless he invited them. To most, it looks like a smooth lawn with a monument and a sculpture in between the Houses of Parliament and Lambeth Bridge. When it had been built, it had been on a island in the river Thames, but now exists beside the river.

The house contains a kitchen, sitting room, conservatory, privy, and washroom downstars. The upstairs contains a single bedroom and a study.

The garden outside the house is the Garden of the Hesperides. It is large, containing a small woods, a few terraces, many fountains, streams, hedges, and statues. There is a steep-sided tor crowned with three trees and a fountain that existed before Raphael moved here. There had once been a dragon that protected the trees and the fountain, but now Raphael protected it with enchantments that would only allow someone who completed a set of difficult tasks to take an apple from the trees and drink from the fountain.