Silvain Crozier

Silvain Crozier is a 33-year old Mage of the Duchy of Dolomieux, and member of the Crozier Lineage as a member of its Branch Family. Brother to Rolin Crozier, unlike his brother who holds ruling power over Dolomieux, Silvain is one of the heads of the Brotherhood of Dolomieux, an organization of renown assassins operating out of the Yalamaran territory. Inducted into the brotherhood at the age of 15, Silvain lived a double life as he ascended the ranks of the Legion before being recruited to join S-Zero's Sentry. One of the 4 Sentry members revered as the Four Horsemen, Silvain is known by the simple name "Strife".

Background
Despite his birth into royalty, Silvain's position as a member of the Branch Family was decided by the order in which he was born. The second born following his brother Rolin, Silvain's upbringing while viewed as lavish by others was indigent by comparison to his brother. Despite his emotional neglect on behalf of his father, Silvain never viewed his older brother in a negative light and always tried to understand why he was to live life as he did. Inferior.

Silvain looked up to his older brother in whom was a prodigy, extremely smart and skilled at everything he did. He strove to be just like him and despite not receiving direct aid from his family, trained on his own. At age 15, he'd eventually find the opportunity to ask his brother to train with him only to be met with rejection. While his brother did view him as his brother, his time in the spotlight had skewed his few of family. Family weren't friends to love and grow alongside, to Rolin, they were advisors, or co-workers to help him succeed. This devastated Silvain, he felt expendable and unloved by those he aspired to be like. This would cause him to run away, leaving home for weeks before stumbling upon a vagrant in a village while training. The vagrant would give Silvain pointers on his training regiment, and despite Silvain shooting him down and claiming to be of Crozier descent, he'd quickly be humbled by the Vagrant who proved extremely skilled, taking the teen down in a fight with ease. Though, Silvain's interaction with his brother had changed him, he felt nothing from the loss, he showed no emotion, but a certain flame in his eye that spoke to the vagrant.

The Vagrant seen this as the sign of someone who would fit his organization, taking Silvain under his wing and training him before inducting him into the Assassin Brotherhood of Dolomieux as its youngest member. Silvain would grow with the Brotherhood, becoming its most productive member until he was ready to take the next step. With a promotion to leadership in his foreseeable future, Silvain would only work even harder, he dedicated his entire life to the Dolomieux Brotherhood. Despite this sacrifice, Silvain would be overlooked for leadership in favor of his cousin, Lezlie_Crozier, who while was the more skilled assassin, Silvain held distain for. He had viewed her selection for only being based upon her uncovering of an ancient mask imbued with the skill and mind of an ancient assassin, he seen himself as the rightful leader of the brotherhood. This eventually led him to move away from Brotherhood operation, and onto the Legion, where he'd become a high ranking member of Sentry and quickly ascend the ranks, joining the team's elite as a member of the 4 Horsemen, where he took on the role of "Strife".

Powers, Abilities & Skills
Descending of the Crozier lineage, Silvain has inherited the family's natural combative prowess and extremely potent Magical Energy, or Mana by which courses through his body on account of the Curse of Mirghan. Eldest sibling to head of the family, Rolin, Silvain is among the strongest active Crozier with some of the highest experience levels. In terms of strength, he is only rivaled by his siblings, and cousins.

Draconic Magic
As utilized by the Crozier Family, Silvain utilizes the Family's famed Draconic Magic. As a member of the branch family, less of a focus in studying and mastering its use as his brother and nephew, Remi. While he did learn the basics and mastery over a few elements, his arsenal is not at all broad in comparison to the likes of Rolin. Using the Magic grants him the ability wield the Draconic Energy, a rare Magical 'Force' by which can be manifested to mimic the properties of seemingly any element. Silvain has completely mastered the Art of the Smoke Dragon, a combination Draconic element stemming from a combination of Art of the Fire Dragon and the Art of the Wind Dragon.
 * Dragon Art: Familiars — Cloning Technique - Silvain can summon element clones of himself in a manner similar to the familiar summing technique. These clones are 1/5th of his strength, but that number grows weaker with more clones created.
 * Dragon Art: Twister - Can generate tornadoes of wind amped by Draconic energy, can also mix in Smoke element. Can summon it at range for an offensive move that causes chaos, or surround himself in it as a barrier that sends enemies away.
 * Elemental Dragon Arts - Silvain was tasked with learning at least the basics of only a few arts of Elemental Draconic Energy manipulation. Those he is capable of using at a high level include:
 * Smoke Dragon Art - This grants Silvain the ability to control the Draconic Energies of Fire and Wind to mimic the properties of smoke through Draconic Energy. This allows him to generate smoke with the ability to transform its tangibility and shape. Silvain can also shape his body to mimic smoke making him undetectable and even unable to be hit, which also makes his offensive capability null.
 * Fire Dragon Art - This grants Silvain the ability to control Draconic Energy that mimics the properties of Fire. This grants amplification of physical strikes, speed via boosting, etc.
 * Wind Dragon Art - This grants Silvain the ability to control Draconic Energy that mimics the properties of Wind. This grants an amplification to speed, and allows Silvain to push others away and fly.
 * Plague Dragon Art - This grants Silvain the ability to control Draconic Energy that mimics the properties of "Plague". This grants Silvain the ability to generate diseases, toxins and poisons from his body.
 * Dragon Art: Full Body Augmentation - Silvain can manipulate Draconic Energy, imbuing it with her physical body and allowing her to augment his physical strength and durability.
 * Dragon Art: Levitate - Silvain can manipulate raw Draconic Energy by which levitates him a short distance from the ground.
 * Dragon Art: Fly - An advanced form of Levitate, Silvain can manifest massive dragon wings composed of Draconic Energy granting him the ability of flight.
 * Dragon Art: Familiars - Silvain is capable of summoning Dragon Familiars in a variety of shapes. These range from winged dragons, to wingless serpent-like dragons, and more composed of raw draconic energy.
 * Elemental Dragon Art: Familiars - Silvain can again form Familiars by which take on the properties of any element he so chooses.

Plague Dragon Art
A product of his renown Plague Dragon Art, Silvain has attained the ability to cultivate and create all forms of "Plague". From toxins, venoms and poisons to disease, viruses and the such, Silvain has the ability to produce pure death from his body. Through this process, Silvain's body has grown severely grotesque and decayed as his human form has been long exposed to the effects of his own magic. Silvain can think up and generate plague with a varying degree of effects and strong points in the matter of minutes. These manifest in a gaseous form and can lead to side effects of his choosing like the suppression of specific memories, weakening of one's Flux, general sickness, and more. Some of his more potent forms of plague have been shown to induce internal decay in anyone who is exposed to the gas from beneath his clothes.

Dolomieux Brotherhood Techniques
A member of the Dolomieux Assassin Brotherhood, Silvain is an extremely skilled combatant and assassin. Capable of high level stealth, and deductive skills, this makes Silvain a perfect fit for S-Zero.
 * Blade Whispering - A magical ability similar to the Crozier's draconic magic, Blade Whispering utilizes a chant or whisper which directly leads to the manifestation of tools, most often seen bladed weapons such as swords or daggers. These manifested tools host extremely powerful traits. Silvain's tool of choice is a single shortsword known as Clemency. This sword is so sharp that its cuts and stabs aren't even detectable via feeling as it hits targets so finely. This makes assassinating a target without being detected easier, especially if they are more powerful foes.
 * Noir Stepping - A renown technique utilized by the Dolomieux Brotherhood. Noir Stepping is the art of high speed silent movement which works via self inflicted enchantment spells which cover one's entire body. When being used, Noir Stepping amplifies the speed of the user depending on how silent their movements are. This extends to anything in contact with their body, for example, the rustling of clothes will disturb the technique. Extremely quiet users can have their speed amplified by tens of times. When used in conjunction with his Draconic Smoke to transform his body into smoke, Silvain is an extremely deadly foe.