Barry

Barry is the main protagonist in Magium. Marked from the start by his daring nature, sarcastic commentary, and his determination to become a mage, his gradually unveiled knowledge, abilities, and life reveal a far more able-minded and experienced character throughout his group's adventures.

Appearance
Barry is notably described as an average-looking human male with an expressive face that tends to give away his bluffs under stress. Although he underwent several months of physical training in preparation for the tournament, he is often teased for being scrawny. Barry wears a long-sleeved shirt with buttons, pants, and a belt with a dagger hanging from it.

History
The events surrounding Barry's birth and lineage remain largely a mystery. His ability to access a Stat Booster's full capabilities shows that he is half-lessathi, half-human. In lessathi society, this would only be allowed within the top brass. While he was still a baby, he was taken off Varathia and left in a village on the Western Continent after his birth parents were murdered in broad daylight by a group of lessathi. He was adopted by two of the villagers and was raised alongside their daughter and son, the son being the youngest of the three. Barry remained unaware of his true parentage until the Tournament.

When Barry was thirteen, his sister began showing signs of magical powers, to the excitement of her family. Unfortunately, due to the village's isolation, the true cause of the development wasn't known until it was too late; a banshee, a parasitic spirit banished from the magical plane had possessed Barry's sister, taking several weeks to meld with her aura before gaining control of her body. One afternoon, Barry came home to find the banshee awoken and in control while his parents tried to bring his sister back to her senses. Too scared to move, Barry watched the banshee sadistically murder his parents before his eyes, only managing to act when it moved to kill his younger brother. Since the banshee had only just awoken, it was unable to access its magical power, allowing Barry to kill it and his sister by impaling it with a pitchfork. Barry would come to remember the event differently in the future, believing his parents had already been killed when he returned home. Following this incident, his relationship with his brother deteriorated. Barry hasn't spoken with him since and his current status is unknown.

At 17, Barry left home to travel across the Western Continent in hopes of fulfilling his lifelong dream, since the age of 5, of becoming a mage. He took up a variety of jobs including test-flying gnomish planes, accompanying professors and relic hunters, and discussing magical theory with hermits, anything where he could potentially pick up bits of information. Barry has been the apprentice of several mages, some of which are famous. One notable example is Brinhorn, as Barry was the true inventor of "Brinhorn's Dispelling Technique", which revolutionized the dispelling of magical traps.

Half-Lessathi's Perks
As a half-lessathi, Barry has a partial resistance to paralysis and electricity along with partial immunity to sleep spells. Unlike the lessathi aura, that has zero magic in it, the half-lessathi aura has magic in it, but the magic in it is weaker than normal humans and very close to zero. So far, this property of his aura is what helped him be able to use the stat device to its full potential, that is using magic.

Stat Booster Device
His abilities vary with the points that he chooses to apply to the stats in his stat booster device.