Leidolf

Leidolf is the Protagonist of the Arcane Advent Series and a Mage.

Appearance
Leidolf is often described being dressed in an enchanted cloak, and wearing a set of fingerless gloves. In more civilized area, he ofter wears a jogging pants-hoodie combination, because it is practical.

On the back of his right glove are runes engraved by the grimoire.

Personality
He has a lone personality that prefers to not interact with a large mass of people and is anti-social. He speaks casually overall. He also has an abnormally high standard for "Heroes", so high that he feels that he doesn't qualify as one.

He is also very distrustful of others, especially those he has a bad start with, but he does warm up to some people eventually.

He has a fatal flaw: He holds grudges, never fully letting his hatred of Luna go because of their first encounter.

While he's under the grimoire's influence for a few months he becomes quite stressful and distant, due to constantly having to put off the invading forces from his mind, but he gets better once it is suppressed.

Volume I
Leidolf is the Main Protagonist of the volume and spends the majority of his time searching for survivors while facing off against Armel's creations.

The story begins with Leidolf sleeping at home when a surge of energy woke him up. As the pressure built up, he recited an spell to isolate his home before passing out, to prevent anyone or anything from entering his home. When he awoke, he went downstairs and opened the door to find the city destroyed, and a bloody had print on his door. He armed himself and left to investigate the cause of the incident.

While investigating, he came across several wolf familiars and was forced to dispatch them. Before he could recover, he blocked an attack from the Guardian of Earth, breaking his arm in the process, and was forced to retreat. While hiding in a supermarket, he activated the Uruz Taufr to recover and fell asleep.

While dreaming, he remembers undergoing the trial for Tyrfing and a brief session with his master. When Leidolf awakens, he takes the now defunct subway tunnel to the residential area. Before he could reach the end, he is attacked by Bat-shaped familiars and uses a Kauno Runestone to clear the tunnel, shielding himself from the heat using his cloak.

Leidolf arrives in time to save Aria from the Guardian of Fire, but fails to save her parents. After burying them in makeshift graves and making a silent promise to get Aria to safety, they depart. Leidolf finds himself facing off against more and more creatures, until the Guardian of Wind appears. Once Leidolf grounded it, at the cost of a Taufr, he cut at it repeatedly to ensure its death before passing out again.

While unconscious, he recalled how he was attacked by Draugar and was saved by the man who became his master. When he awoke inside the barrier he set up for Aria, he looked up to see that the dome surrounding the city was cracking. While telling more about the situation on the way back, they were attacked by the Guardian of Earth once again, and he was forced to use Tyrfing to slay it.

Once they returned to his home and she settled down, he cooked her a meal and they had a conversation about his past and her future, with him not expecting to survive the battle. He soon departed to the final battlefield, clearing out the remaining familiars an Guardian of Water with Fire Giant's Roar. After that, he used his last runestones to cause the building Armel was in to collapse, but he survived and the two fought.

The two fought with Armel being slowly overtaken because of Leidolf using the Mage Breaker. Unfortunately, he made an error in judgement and wound up near death, forcing him to offer a portion of his life force to Tyrfing in order to end the battle and resolve the issue. In the aftermath, he predicted he would survive the night without emergency treatment, but opted to get Aria out first and headed back home.

As the volume ends, he is attacked by another mage.

Volume II
Volume II begins with Leidolf injured and tired, having to face down Luna while barely able to stand. As a result, he fights, but is nearly killed as a result of Luna's attack and spends the next two months in a coma, before waking at Hollow. He tries to move, but is quickly stopped by Ramona Synclair and the Supervisor, who blackmails him into joining them by revealing several things, including that she read his memories and knows about Tyrfing.

He joins them under the condition that Aria is protected regardless of his status and is taken to the Dorm by Tanmay and spends the next few months getting adjusted to his new life, including sparring with Fai, taking lessons in magical theory and plants, and other things, eventually opening up the other members.

Eventually he is given his first mission, which is to retrieve book stolen from the Church and joins Fai for the trip. Along the way to the meeting place in Silverleaf, he is attacked by Kai and Tanner, but they fend them off. At the park he runs into Amadea, who works for the Church, and Scion, an old classmate who had a crush on him. Feeling that she deserved the truth, he told her everything and they shared contact information.

At the Graveyard, Leidolf revealed the grimoire's true identity and briefly passed out due to the influx of darkness with which he's compatible with, finding himself in a swamp of blood and being coerced by a compelling and dark voice to free it, before is awakened by a figure shrouded in fading light. He then helps Fai fend off Draugar and eventually drove Acario off.

The next day, after meeting with Scion, he discovered the location of the grimoire and went to retrieve it, fending off Tanner and Kai, and had to stay over at Scion's place for the rest of the night, where they talked about the past and a relationship, with Leidolf giving her an enchanted necklace he bought along by accident. In the morning, he he went with Fai to hand over the grimoire, but Acario had beaten them to the location and managed to teleport Leidolf to the graveyard and beat him near death.

The grimoire had more compatibility with Leidolf and eventually overshadowed him, nearly killing his assailants until he passed out again and went into a coma once again, until he is pulled out of it by the Supervisor.

The volume ends with him picking Scion up from the airport on his birthday.

The Wolf's Doppelganger
The grimoire's influence has begun to cause Leidolf to hallucinate and pass out at random points, tearing apart Leidolf's mental defenses as it continues to consume him. In order to gain some control over it, he is sent to hunt down a Doppelganger that awoke at the same time he became the grimoire's host. The Doppelganger matches him spell for spell and blow for blow, until it takes the grimoire into itself and becomes a werewolf-like creature.

Unable to continue fighting, Leidolf is on death's door until he subconsciously summons Niflheim Ice, and repels it. He then falls asleep, only waking up to find himself literally attached to a tree, sucking the nutrients from it to repair his body, where a mysterious woman, the mission's client, heals him and gives him a clue to defeating the Doppelganger. Once he's free, he calls his boss, who deciphers the clue for him.

Leidolf soon encounters the Doppelganger again, and after another fierce battle, manages to defeat it. Fai comes to pick him up, and at base, he finds a small wolf pup lying on top of him, which devours the excess darkness given off by the grimoire to keep him sane.

Abilities
Leidolf focuses on Runic Arts, a type of magick system based off Norse Mythology, and has a focus on runes and taufrs to fight. He uses a Japanese sword but also has experience in the Korean Martial Art Hapkido, so he typically fights in close range combat. He also has three spellcrafts implanted in his head, although he can only use one at the moment.

Leidolf is an Duplex Elementum and has an Ice-Darkness affinity as a result, but he prefers Fire for combat.

Fire Attribute

 * Bal:Flame spell, uses the Kauno Rune to create a passive ball of fire that can be remote-controlled. It’s used to illuminate dark places or other non-destructive purposes.
 * Cen:Flame spell, uses the Kauno Rune to create a fireball that can cause damage. He normally fires them like bullets, using his hand as a gun.
 * Fire Giant’s Roar:Heat Wave spell, it has a low-cost, single-use,high-tier spell, with a wide radius of effect and can incinerate just about anything inside it.
 * ''Overload Flame :Flame Destruction spell, he overloads the spell while applying the Kauno rune, sending an outward force of heat and flames.

Neutral Attribute

 * Algis:Defensive spell, it uses Algiz Rune to create a glass-like shield of various sizes that can block spells. It’s primarily used like a knight’s shield or placed in front of an attack, although he also uses them as stepping stones or platforms in the sky.
 * Knottr Algis:Area Defensive bind rune spell, it combines the properties of Othala Rune with the Algis spell to create a hexagonal, tiled barrier around Leidolf and the area he's in.
 * Mage Breaker:Weakening spell, it is a low-cost, single use, spell that was created on the principle of the Alf-shot and temporarily lowers the enemies’ physical and mental status, making it more costly to use magick.

Darkness Attribute

 * Krafla: Claw spell, enshrouds his hand in darkness and generates a claw made of solid shadows.

Ice Attribute

 * Kala Sverd: Frost Sword spell, creates a large, double edge sword made of ice.
 * Overload Frost: Ice Destruction Spell, Leidolf shatters the frozen shield causing ice shrapnel to fly forward.
 * Hrim Algis: Frost Defensive Spell, creates a frozen shield version of Algis, using both Algiz and Isa runes.

Cursed Blades
The spellcrafts created by his master and implanted inside him take on the form of legendary swords from Norse Mythology:
 * Tyrfing - The Bane of Shields, uses overwhelming power from the user's life force as a weapon.Copyrighted_Leid_Transformed_-_Final.jpg Leidolf transforms into a state that is between a Fire Giant and his normal appearance.

CQC
Leidolf fights using a combination of Hapkido techniques and pragmatic methods, such as kicking rocks into an attacker's face, stabbing them in the back or while down, or striking the groin to create an opening. He's no expert martial artist, but he's competant enough for fighting.

Trivia

 * His name means 'Wolf's Descendant'

Quotes

 * (To Aria) "For starters, my name is Leid. Please don’t call me a hero. A hero wouldn’t have let something like this have happened."
 * (To Armel) "Even if it’s a dirty way of fighting and I’m covered in mud, I’ll be the one alive in the end. While someone else’s life is on the line, I’ll fight the way I deem most effective for me."