full name vesper 'bamwoo song' castilledob & age 05, aug '97 ◦ 23
hometown mar / es / co*
current residence xxx
occupation hunter / delivery boy / oris
witch astrologist
craft tri-star: folding firebird
supernatural hunter, seoul coven witch, fire headed motorbiker, celestial witch of triumph personality type
skills / likes & dislikes
wushu, mardani khel, gatka, kalaripayattu, aikido, ba gua, dambe, eskrima, fencing, hapkido, hwa rang do, hung gar, krav maga, kuk sol won, laamb, muay thai, savate, acrobatics, gymnastics, aerials, stunt driving, tactical driving, drifting.
jellies, languages, eve marie, meridian, anything with cheese, pie cups, whisky, bourbon, classic films, 90s films, the gods themselves, weapon forging
burritos, heavy metal, screamo, last minute orders, tentacles, shorts, tight spaces
the family
his story
The King's Star rests in the breast of the burning lion. Vesper Castille, born beneath its bright roar, was never destined for anything but the blazes of old glory. Seven days of trouble left the moment Vesper arrived. Desert winds stopped their roaming walls; the shores of Rabat stopped their raging waves; buildings settled into the land again, people freed from walking in terror or bent like the old Juniper trees.
It was, as far as Castille witches can read in stardust and palms, a sign of true power.
But then there was Vesper, who was more like a lottery ticket than a sure thing. The Oris of the family was a violet flame of authority: the cosmic fire bird, burning all that could be away so only itself would remain. Once, a fire bird had nearly destroyed the Asian continent. Rumors dated further back, how they had been worse than dragons, turning temples into rubbles and kingdoms into ash.
And Vesper, instead, was babbling as any other newborn, magic blooming unicorn toys to life and sending bubbles of bright colors through the air. Hardly threatening. Milena loved him, her one and only son, her prince, but she kept him a secret. She traveled still, business upkept with her husband through the world, and sheltered Vesper as often as she could. Tutoring at home. Classes at all hours of the day until the child was exhausted, never once left with enough energy to do more than run through their home and back to bed. It wasn't until the sixth summer of his life that things began to change.
Risk was in the air and blood would soon stain the water, but Vesper hadn't any notion of Didac's arrival until he was feeling the might of a fist to the temple and falling into the water. Milena, busy on the shore, noticed far too late; the boys were not playing but in battle, and Vesper turned all the fairytales of his gift into might, raw and real. Though Didac's magic had always lent him an invincible body, from the very start, he found his flesh no match for the storm that brewed out of Vesper. With one swipe of forbidden claws, Didac's chest was torn open and the sky ripped apart.
Lightning struck all across the coast of Italy. The party on the sand broke apart, rushing to them both. Milena took to her son, rushing through the water to grab and calm him from his temperment. But inside, she was proud. Vesper was strange and wild in bold hues. He was power. He was worth pride.
After that, things changed in Vesper's life. Fighting. Spell work. And, of course, the attempts at arranged marriages. Great power comes with great burdens. But, with time, things eased, as Milena watched the need for a new generation to cultivate their strength in Seoul and to take the tasks of the Coven. For now, marriages and the Castille line are in wait, leaving Vesper a taste of freedom he indulges.
Even if Poe annoys him with her last minute calls for meals she knows he has to cook himself.
detailed facts
⇢ vesper is something of a sommelier, though he has very unrefined penchants for alcohol himself. he can note the history and make of bottles and flavors but he has a serious preference for the simple, hard liquors.
⇢ once dated two girls at the same time accidentally. he thought it was understood that things were over with cristina. awkward as it was that she texted him still, he thought nothing of it and started to date isobel. a few weeks in, cristina showed up in the middle of a date and, well. he learned the hard way to be much, much more direct.
⇢ midnight pancakes and raw cookie dough are his go-to comfort foods. if he's having a tough day (or week) he can usually be found making pancakes in the middle of the night, but more quick fleeting stress makes him resort to eating raw cookie dough on the spot.
⇢ can play the guitar, the bass and the trumpet. it was a challenge that he ended up enjoying quite a lot. he never had any dreams of becoming a musician of any sort, but it was a nice distraction from the intensity of magic and language classes.
⇢ he has multiple licenses, including a motorcycle, a pilot's license and scuba licenses in different countries in the world. it's always good to not have to rely on magic for identification, he thinks.
⇢ has an extensive sneaker collection, they're his favorite things to buy himself. second most favorite are earrings, for the seven ear piercings he maintains..
the fire bird
Astrologians (Celestial Animists) Harking back to old bruixeria and saman workings, the Castille Astrologians are a family of witches whose magic manifests a spiritual creature whose essence, and unique form, cultivates the power of the individual witch. while the tri-star spirit can (and has) caused Castille witches to become full animals to serve as familiars, the source of their power vastly offers the ability to manipulate the forces of the universe and magic in a number of unique ways.
Castille Astrologians function in a variety of three viewpoints towards magic. First, they believe in the ability to harvest the land, which allows them the ability to learn a natural control of Earth magic, influencing nature, elements, animals and themselves. Land Harvests are the most innate magical gifts a Castille Astrologian has in their arsenal, usually colored in learning by the nature of their tri-star (as each tri-star creature is aligned with styles and essence of magic). Second, they believe in the ability to steal fruits from the sky which is their method of learning spells from grimoires, potions from recipes, brews from other witches. This, in essence, is the magic that permeates the universe, knowledge that can be learned and taught rather than intrinsically understood. Finally, they believe in the ability to reclaim the seeds of the stars which is the apex of the Castille magic: the ability to conjure, create and utilize cosmic and celestial force. This is the lessons they learn among themselves, unique to their bloodlines, allowing them to manipulate cosmic force with magical expertise.
in the last six decades, every Castille witch is under more severe threat of becoming their tri-star more absolutely, however, thanks to a marriage to a blood witch. this new threat provides the Castille witch with the ability to conjure a unique weapon made from their very soul essence, adjusted to their form and figure. this weapon (called a Forbidden) is not considered valuable and often manifests under distress, not by will of the witch at hand; each usage is believed to take away some of the witch's life itself.
vesper's folding fire bird (something caught between a fenghuang, a phoenix and spiritual flame) is a manifestation of the metaphors of life, magic and time itself. this manifests his weapons like sharp talons, conjuring blades over his fists in the forms of katar, patta and emeici depending on the stress at hand. it also gives him his unique brilliance — an ability that manifests like synesthesia and turns his harvest into a bag of metaphors.
emblems & wings
his tri-star bird means vesper himself has an aura closer to a bird and he has a natural affinity for all avians of earth, speaking an advanced (but not mastered yet) form of their language.
has only twice ever manifested, through generating enough force and magic, his own pair of wings that were capable of burning only materials he willed in a style similar to cosmic fire.
every castille is gifted with a personal brilliance which is the talent and trait cultivated from their own tri-star. vesper's fire bird gives him the brilliance of enhanced sense and understanding, letting him interpret the world as a mixed bag of sensation.
the castille line believes that vesper can, with enough time and training, become an illogical source of power thanks to the fire bird nature of his tri-star. as of now, he has shown the ability to manipulate time and space with his words and will, showing he can fold reality as his folding fire bird should.
though some are better than others at it, castille witches can utilize not just grimoires but any magical artifact to try to learn and reason the spellwork within it. vesper, not well studied in versatile language and translation, doesn't do so well with tablets and books — but thanks to his brilliance, he is rather exceptional at understanding the nature of tools and objects.
a simple task for even some who aren't magically inclined, castille witches can learn to brew, create and reinvent potions from other witches, usually as a byproduct of reading the recipe or book from which it is written in.
a most difficult task in spell casting is the ability to properly enunciate for incantations among the castille. thanks to the nature of their individual brilliance gifts, they often have a hard time reciting incantations and getting direct results. because of it, all castille children are raised with an education to master multiple living and dead languages.
the strongest harvest of sky is the most intricate, the ability to utilize rituals to harness magic. this can range from summoning circles for energy to banta dances for wisdom and performance pieces to affect audiences, making it the longest kind of sky fruit a castille witch can manage.
as astrologians, the base nature of castille magic is to utilize the power and magic of the stars in their every waking moment. from divination and tarot work to alchemy and the oldest nature of their power: lunar reverance. as they age, they learn more and more of their celestial and cosmic understanding.
at a young age, castille witches learn to harness their own zodiac into magical enhancements for themselves, eventually learning to evolve that into understanding the current ruling signs and the spells that will work best when trying to harness the stars.
after learning to harness their own stars, castille witches begin to learn to utilize the planets themselves, mastering the art of astronomy and all its influences, using the rising of mars for fire and strength and sex magicks, for instance.
once they have learned the basics of the planets and the constellations, castille witches must come into understanding the nature of the energy of stars themselves. this makes them learn to harness aether and nether and allows them to use magic to influence, shape and manipulate the ethereal qualities of the universe.
with etheral bodies mastered, castille witches can become masters of the cosmic universe itself: manipulating stars, asterisms, blackholes. they learn to use their special cosmic magic to create small asteroids, influence gravity, create light and heat and become the astrologian witches they were meant to be.
tasks only the most powerful of castille witches can learn are the peak of being an astrologian: the celestial spellworks. as the only living son of the patriarch of the entire lineage, vesper is one of only three living castille witches who has learned even a smidgeon of the spells, with a great many powers left to unfold and harness as he ages.
spells, abilities & items
king of the birds
strong but nimble
disaster flames
solar wings
healing fire
spiritual flame
heart of stone
time is money
δυναμικό (potential)
the new crown
illogical might
everything is possible
rewritten stars
magic ascendant
vesper also has a crescent moon birth mark on the bottom of his right ankle, one that all the castille witches have. it is the mark of their bloodline.
but, as the son of the most powerful current castille, vesper also has the five stars of cancer as a birth mark on his right hip. these are the stars he was born beneath and became part of his flesh.
although not an elemental witch, vesper is aligned with the notion of fire as well, making it easier for him to learn from grimoires dealing with flames, fire, light, sun, purifying, destructive, sexual, strength, storm, time and, of course, stellar spells easier than with other alignments.
relatively decent cook, excellent latin cuisine and some spanish specialties. more often than not he runs deliveries for coreanos kitchen, his part time work to cover excuses on exploration for hunting missions.
vesper speaks with fluency: english, spanish, korean and latin. he speaks conversational or academic: aramaic, ancient greek, italian, cantonese, french (traditional & creole), gàidhlig, gaeilic, cymraeg, faroese and norsk.
katar / daggers
severe nights
new discoveries
assimilated stars
emeici / claws
shrewd slices
shackle stars
onslaught blades
patta / blades
gouge fall
transfixed sky
the lancer fall
