STONE CANNON
A well-known Intermediate-level spell. It shoots a chunk of rock at high speed at one’s opponent. However, when Rudeus used the spell with silent spellcasting, it carried enough power to disintegrate an immortal demon king. He also used variations including Blast Cannon and Stone Shot.
QUAGMIRE
An example of Rudeus’s patented combination magic. Rudeus is supposed to have been able to conjure a quagmire large enough to submerge an entire town.
DEEP MIST
Another example (as above) of Rudeus’s combination magic. It is said he could conjure enough mist to conceal an entire forest.
ELECTRIC
Rudeus’s original spell, condensing the King-tier water magic Lightning. By using this spell in close combat, Rudeus was able to neutralize an immortal demon king in a single hit.
SHOCK WAVE
A wind spell that creates a pulse in the air to send one’s opponent flying. Rudeus allegedly used this spell in close combat to fight as though he were flying.
Research
Over the course of his life, Rudeus researched and developed many spells and magical implements. He also funded a range of different research fields.
A LEARNING METHOD FOR UNVOICED MAGIC
Rudeus Greyrat was said to have used voiceless magic from a young age. His teacher, Roxy M. Greyrat, wrote up his method for voiceless magic as a paper, developing a didactic method for the skill. This method was enthusiastically implemented by the three great magic universities into their magical education programs, contributing to the emergence of many talented magicians.
MANA RECOVERY THERAPY (MAGIC POTION)
With funding from Rudeus, Silent Sevenstar developed a drink that restores mana. This so-called magic potion unshackled magicians from the whims of their magic reserves. This, combined with the learning method above, was so influential it is said to have “ended the era of sword fighter supremacy” by raising the status of magicians.
MAGICAL PROSTHETICS
Magical prosthetics have helped a great many people: adventurers, for instance, or those too poor to access healing magic beyond Saint- or King-tier. These prosthetics were the result of research by Zanoba Shirone and Cliff Grimor, made possible through funding provided by Rudeus. It was Silent Sevenstar who popularized the magical prosthetics not as magical implements but as medical tools.
MAGIC ARMOR
Rudeus was believed to be the only one who could operate the Magic Armor. In time, the Greyrats’ third daughter, Lily Greyrat, took over his research and in 483 perfected the General Purpose Magic Armor. This development significantly reduced the risk of hunting large monsters.
MAGIC DOLLS
With funding provided by Rudeus, Zanoba Shirone successfully developed a magical figurine. These figurines look exactly like humans. They are used in a wide variety of ways: serving as cherished pets, performing odd tasks, testing for poison, and working as scouts. However, they are enormously expensive and few in number. At present only the royalty of nations who enjoyed Rudeus’s friendship use them.
TELEPORTATION CIRCLES
With funding provided by Rudeus, Silent Sevenstar researched and revived the forbidden teleportation circles. With teleportation circles placed in strategic locations throughout the different nations, the danger of long journeys was mitigated and travel to distant lands became simple.
Rudeus is said to have broken the taboo after reflecting on the death of his father Paul in the Teleportation Labyrinth. Records suggest that the actual research was conducted by Silent Sevenstar, with Rudeus as her sponsor. However, for some unknown reason old merchant and noble families, along with those involved in the Millis Church, curse Rudeus as the “taboo breaker.”
Memoirs and Code
It is believed that the records of the research above were written in the fifty-two volumes that form the Book of Rudeus. Since they are written entirely in a code only used between himself and Silent Sevenstar that is yet to be fully decrypted, however, their credibility is questionable.
Build and Character
Rudeus was approximately 175 centimeters tall and had, for a magician, a comparatively strong and muscular build. He had pale skin, and his eyes were mismatched, as he used the Eye of Foresight for his right eye and the Eye of Distant Sight for his left. He is never described as handsome, but his wife Sylphiette is said to have thought, “Looking at his face for just a few seconds was enough to make me weak at the knees” when they met at the Magic University. His other wives, Eris Greyrat and Roxy M. Greyrat, didn’t make any comment on his looks, but we can assume he wasn’t exceptionally ugly.
His preferred outfit is supposed to have been a light gray robe without a hat. He was disinterested in clothing in his youth. It is written in the remaining records that while attending university he “wore a robe fraying at the hem,” and in the Asura Kingdom “a number of nobles looked disapprovingly at his strange appearance when he presented himself in the audience chamber.” He came to pay more attention to his personal appearance after turning twenty, and around 430 Armored Dragon King Perugius commented that “he has made himself more presentable lately.” While insensitive to his own appearance, he was fastidious about cleanliness, renovating a room of his home into a large bath which he is said to have used every day.
Rudeus was feared in Sharia, but he was also more beloved than any other magician, as can be seen in his grand funeral and the many mourners who attended, as well as in the monument erected in a corner of the Magic University engraved with Rudeus’s own words.
Rudeus is believed to have been sociable, with a kind and good-natured personality, but his intense libido did not go without comment. Descriptions remain of how he touched and fondled his wives without any restraint or regard for lookers-on. He was, in fact, devoted to his wives and never made a move on other women, so some historians opine that his lechery is a groundless rumor. In addition, he was of such a gentle disposition that he smiled through insults and violence directed at him, but when harm came to his family or friends he would get into such a fury that at times he became violent.
The following anecdotes describe Rudeus’s personality: