First appearance: Magic — S1 Ep2 — Mageic v Amren · watch it on YouTube
Mageic is a touring stage magician who has played up and down the Sword Coast and arrived in the Void believing he had a show booked in Neverwinter. He is all muscle and patter, and not much else upstairs. He spent his Deathmatch against the fire genasi Amren insisting on handshakes, befriending a cursed doll and eating food off the floor. Under the showmanship sat a genuinely dangerous spellcaster, and he walked out of the burning ruins as the night’s victor.
Story
Mageic was marched into The Dread Fortress by Goblins at a snap of the Arbiter’s fingers. He looked around in confusion: “Are we not in Neverwinter? I was supposed to do a show in Neverwinter.” He introduced himself in full to the crowd, then decided Amren must be his assistant. He complained that his manager, Jerry, had promised him an exclusive contract. The Grandmaster shut that down at once. In her arena there was only one person in charge, managers had no role, and Amren was an honored guest.
The fight took place in the Grandmaster’s abandoned abbey. When a small porcelain doll appeared on the fountain asking who wanted to be its friend, Mageic opened with a speech to “ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages and the creepy doll.” Amren refused his handshake, so he answered with a thunderous slow clap. Then he shook the doll’s hand instead. Its eyes went solid black and it burned a rune into his palm (“We’re friends now”). He christened his new assistant “Dolly Parton” (Dolly). He sent her floating up to Amren for a hug, and Dolly bit her on the ankle: “I hug with my teeth.” Amren swung her staff like a golf club and smashed the doll to pieces, and the rune on Mageic’s hand burned away. He did not let it go. When the crowd turned the arena into a dodgeball pit, hurling everything from tacos to a steel chair to someone’s own grandmother, who died on the stones, he calmly ate a hot dog off the floor. Later he conjured a weeping phantom of Dolly on Amren’s shoulder to whisper the lullaby in her ear, until the Grandmaster crushed the illusion in her fist.
The battle moved into the cathedral, and it got hot. Mageic slowed Amren down, counting his own steps aloud as he went. She sealed the door with a wall of fire, and the Grandmaster herself lifted his spell from her. Then the Arbiter’s contingency, a pocket of natural gas under the floor, ignited and blew the cathedral apart. Mageic fought on through falling rubble with arms of shadow, an illusory top hat, a parting “m’lady,” and a withering blight cast without a word or gesture. When Amren announced her “big one,” Mageic had heard it coming. He sheltered behind debris and came out of the inferno untouched. His “finale” was a cone of cold cast twice, and it left her clinging to life by sheer will as the crowd chanted her name. Amren then teleported to him and burned his “beautiful showman face,” leaving it scarred.
The end came when the floor turned to lava. Mageic shimmied up a column “like a squirrel.” Amren trusted the fire, stayed where she was, and melted into it with her arms raised. In secret, before the statue of his rival had fully hardened, the Arbiter knelt over her and remade her out of lava. The Grandmaster crowned Mageic victor, praising him for taking Dolly by the hand, eating that crusty hot dog and respecting the lava’s fiery touch.
Personality and Abilities
Mageic is a showman to the bone. He announces himself as “the marvelous, the mystical, the magnificent, the moody… magical Mageic,” and he treats every fight like a booking. He offers handshakes and professional courtesy even to people trying to kill him, and he keeps telling people to talk to his manager, Jerry, who “does the paperwork.” He is built like a strongman, tough enough to shrug off punishment, and cheerfully dim. He counts his steps out loud and claims misses were deliberate. He has played Neverwinter, Baldur’s Gate and Waterdeep, “up and down the Sword Coast.”
His magic leans on misdirection: illusions, invisibility, phantom terrors and whispered torments. He backs it up with heavier tricks, such as thunderclaps, slowing spells, blight, arms of Hadar (“my mate Hadar”) and cone of cold. A signature trick is casting with no visible sign at all, so the life drains from his opponent “with me doing nothing.” After the show, his player hinted that Mageic carries a secret he has not yet revealed.
Relationships
- Amren: His rival in the abbey. He insisted she was his assistant, and she called him filth. She scarred his face before the lava took her.
- Dolly: The cursed doll he befriended, named “Dolly Parton,” and mourned loudly after Amren shattered her.
- The Grandmaster: She dismissed his manager talk, gave him an icy disappointed-mom stare for spoiling “backstage secrets,” encouraged him not to give up “until those curtains draw red,” and crowned him victor.
- The Arbiter: The host who summoned him. The Arbiter was thoroughly spooked by Mageic’s doll.
Memorable Quotes
- “I am the marvelous, the mystical, the magnificent, the moody… magical Mageic, the magician.” (Magic — S1 Ep2 — Mageic v Amren)
- “Are we not in Neverwinter? I was supposed to do a show in Neverwinter.” (Magic — S1 Ep2 — Mageic v Amren)
- “It’s really hard to get quality food down here in the Dread Fortress.” (Magic — S1 Ep2 — Mageic v Amren)
- “You don’t talk about Dolly Parton like that.” (Magic — S1 Ep2 — Mageic v Amren)
- “Watch as the life drains from her body with me doing nothing.” (Magic — S1 Ep2 — Mageic v Amren)
- “I’ve got a finale… I can do it at any time, like even when I’m talking to you.” (Magic — S1 Ep2 — Mageic v Amren)