Jimmy the Wizard

Jimmy the Wizard is an Afrometer sorcerer, and the head of the U.P.A. Born as the oldest child into the well known Wizard bloodline, famed for its many great sorcerers throughout history, Jimmy became perhaps the greatest sorcerer of all time himself. Working his way up the Afrazel political ranks, and becoming the Head of Sorcery and then Head of War in the Afrazelite High Council, Jimmy became a planetary hero after instigating the Afrometer's victory against the Mohawkians. However he has often been at odds with the political elite of Afrazel, and even served a fifty year exile at one stage. Considered one of the Universe's greatest ever sorcerers, Jimmy's name is renowned across the stars for his great feats of magic and defeats of cosmic beings.

Early Years
Jimmy the Wizard to Humphry the Wizard and Jamima the Book on the equivalent of 15th March 1766 A.D in the Afrazel capital Armoury. Jimmy was raised alongside his younger brothers Gumbol the Wizard, Gobble the Wizard, Chommy the Wizard, and Woozoo the Wizard in the capital city. During his school career, Jimmy received excellent grades, bettered only by Chommy out of his siblings. However he was a prodigious talent in sorcery, and after his schooling ended decided to pursue a degree in sorcery at Inchin University, one of the most prestigious tertiary institutions in Afrazel. He graduated with a bachelor's degree a few years later with the highest possible honours, and this afforded him and his family celebrity status. He was also offered a scholarship for post-graduate studies at Inchin University. However, he was deeply unsatisfied as he felt his potential expanded beyond the knowledge of the Afrometer academic system. Thus, at the age of 192, in his one-person spacecraft the 'Scarlet Lady', young Jimmy the Wizard left Afrazel in search of somewhere to hone his naturally outstanding magical potential elsewhere. He discovered a planet called Vovani, which was inhabited by a mystical race of druids known as Vovenians. They harnessed an energy form known as Senergy, which was powerful but highly outdated. The druids sensed Jimmy's power levels and keenly agreed to train him. Taking Senergy to an unprecedented new level of power, Jimmy honed this art form after 37 years. He presented his Cane, carved beautifully from the Methuselah tree of Earth to the druids, who bonded it spiritually with Jimmy. He named his cane the Duke of Sparrows. This mostly accounts for why Jimmy is so unmatched with sorcery as Senergy is rarely used, so most don't know how to combat it effectively.

Political Career
In 1995, he embarked on a journey back to Afrazel, which was now in an evenly matched, bloody war with the Mohawkians. He decided to turn his attention to the politics of his planet. Long serving Afrometer High Council member Perka the Oak had stepped down from her role as Head of Sorcery at the age of 904, leaving a vacancy on the most prestigious position possible on the planet for a sorcerer. Despite his relatively mediocre material qualifications, Jimmy wowed the rest of the High Council with his talent, and he was appointed as the 191st Afrazelite Head of Sorcery on 6th November, 1995. The job did not live up to Jimmy's expectations, and he was disappointed that the Head of Sorcery did not serve a greater role in the ensuing war with the Mohawkians. After just 3 weeks in office, Jimmy resigned as Head of Sorcery and challenged 700 year old Tombi the Appendage for the Head of War position, presenting him with a petition of 1,000,000 afrometer signatures (the minimum for a High Council challenge). Jimmy won the resulting vote on a landslide and on the 1st January 1996, at the age of 229, became the youngest ever Head of War.

It was here he displayed great leadership skill and an incisive strategic ability. Within two years the afrometers had gained a very large advantage and the situation seemed desperate for the Mohawkians. Things took a fateful turn however when Sakan, the Mohawkian king, attacked and destroyed an unarmed Afrometer strawberry vessel, bound for Earth, out of desperation. The attack killed over 200 innocent Afrometers including Jimmy's own cousin Mironda the Spike. Jimmy demanded to the council that he be allowed to personally hunt the king and bring him to justice. They unanimously refused, saying his place was to rule from Afrazel and they cautioned him not to make the war personal.

The Quest for Sakan
One day later, on 17th May 1998, he caused a global stir by announcing his immediate resignation from his post. He soon departed the planet, piloting the 'Scarlet Lady', vowing to destroy the king of Mohawkia. Over the following decade he pursued Sakan, but the latter always seemed to find a way to escape. Jimmy succeeded in easily overcoming an entire contingent of Sakan's prized bodyguards, installing in him a deep fear of the afrometers, especially Jimmy. In early 2001, on a chance encounter on the planet Prrg, Jimmy and Sakan properly did battle for the first and only time. Sakan was a powerful sorcerer himself, but certainly was no match for the afrometer. However, after somehow managing to hold off the more powerful sorcerer, Sakan successfully distracted Jimmy and escaped once more.

Public Enemy
Jimmy, despite failing to capture or kill Sakan yet again, but seeing that the war was clearly won, decided it was time to return home. However, upon returning, he was arrested and brought in chains to the High Council. There, the Head of Justice, Juntissa the Wood, sentenced him to fifty years exile for abandoning the High Council and failing to serve his war duty. His beloved ship, the 'Scarlet Lady', was also obliterated, and he was escorted by armed guards to the crystal planet Rhumesia, located within the same solar system as Afrazel.

Life on Rhumesia and First Encounter with Phibian
Jimmy fortunately retained his cane when he was brought to Rhumesia. The tall, birdlike Rhumesians were an aristocratic race who were wary of sorcery, and Jimmy himself, thus they practically left him alone to practise his Senergic magic. Within the great city of Elender on Rhumesia lay the Grand Temple of Learning, an enormous library filled with great political and historical texts from across the Universe, including some written by Jimmy's own historian brother. It was here that Jimmy spent a lot of his time dedicated to studying the many races and political systems of other planets. During one of these visits he met Fritton, a mysterious, self-aware android from a distant planet, who was a self described wanderer. The two became friends, and once Jimmy discovered Fritton's incredible knowledge of physics, asked him to help him design a replacement ship. This resulted in the initial blueprints being drafted for Jimmy's later vessel, the 'Scarlet Empress '. Together they actually built a much smaller, two-man vessel which they said they'd leave on together at the end of Jimmy's exile, with Fritton wishing to show him the many wonders of the greater universe.

By this time, Sakan had been murdered by his confidant Phibian, an Afrometer-born warrior who turned against his native people and joined the Mohawkian cause. However, Phibian's plan to assume control of Mohawkia went awry and he was forced to flee with a small battalion of about 800 armed supporters, known disparigingly as 'Phibian's Friends'. The group departed Mohawkia and several days later arrived at nearby Rhumesia to regroup. After the elders of Elender refused entry to the group due to Phibian's status as an outlaw and terrorist, the group attacked the city and overran the well trained but highly outnumbered Elenderian Guard. They took control of the majority of the city and established it as a base of operations. Jimmy and Fritton managed to gather many of the city's residents and house them within the Grand Temple, using it as a refuge. Phibian, knowing of Jimmy's estrangement from his own planet, explained that he was a fellow refugee from the Mohawkian army, and offered a truce, but when Jimmy went to parley, he recognised Phibian for the traitor he was, and a firefight broke out before Jimmy retreated into the Grand Temple. Unfortunately for all parties, a huge, 10,000 strong Mohawkian death squad that had followed Phibian after he fled, had arrived at Rhumesia with the sole purpose of executing Phibian and destroying his followers. Full blown chaos ensued as conflict erupted across the ancient city, with Jimmy doing his best to hold off the two opposing forces that seemed hell bent on mutual destruction. Try as he might however, Jimmy soon found himself overwhelmed and the Grand Temple was breached, with many of the city's innocent citizens dying in the crossfire. Jimmy and Fritton were forced to escape via their untested prototype ship, the 'Scarlet Princess '. Sadly, the fighting between the Mohawkian death squad and Phibian's Friends resulted in what came to be known as the 'Ruins of Rhumesia' and the fall of Elender. Much of the proud city was left smoldering and the Grand Temple of Learning, one of the most cherished structures in the known universe, was destroyed.

Crashing on Scallenhorst
While The Scarlett Princess managed to escape the Ruins of Rhumesia, it soon broke down after exiting the planet's orbit, and Jimmy and Fritton were left to drift in space. Fritton's mystical knowledge of universal location identified Scallenhorst, in the outer rim, as the nearest planet. With no power source however, it would take years to reach the planet. Fritton plugged himself into the ship and used his immensely powerful battery to provide a huge burst of energy to send the ship hurtling towards its target. This act would've broken the rudimentary spacecraft apart, but Jimmy held it together with sorcerous energy. In just over a week, the wreckage of the Scarlett Princess entered the atmosphere of Scallenhorst, crashing hard into deep swamplands on the planet's northern side. Jimmy was badly bruised and extremely malnourished and set off in his sorry state looking for help, while Fritton was barely alive and was forced to remain at the site of the wreckage.

Jimmy eventually discovered a village approximately 14km from the crash site inhabited by approximately 10 native Reptilloids, however they became hostile towards him and attempted to kill him for food. Jimmy was forced to kill all of them in defense, but not before he was poisoned from a wound he received from one of their spears. On the brink of death, Jimmy collapsed into a near-comatose state in a bed in one of the village's huts. A day later, the village was visited by a garrison of the Royal Freganzoid Guard, led by Reptilloid warrior Chaka Sempo. They were investigating the crash of the Scarlett Princess, and looking for the site of impact, had stopped by the village for information. Chaka was a war veteran who had been one of the few on Scallenhorst to volunteer to fight in the Afro-Mohawkian War. and certainly the only Reptilloid. He had fought many battles, and was crucial in stopping the Mohawkian Terrorist Force from establishing a base on Earth's moon. He recognised Jimmy and knew of his exploits and courage from when he had hunted for Sakan. He had his men provide first aid and an antidote to the poison, and within a week Jimmy was fit to travel. Chaka explained that the war had taken a major turn, and infighting amongst the Mohawkians had likely doomed their war effort. Jimmy then explained his predicament and took Chaka and the Guard to the crash site, where unfortunately Fritton had perished; his wires chewed apart from various swamp creatures. Fritton had left behind a very faint signal however from a data crystal in his chest, a phrase in an unrecognised language repeating over and over. Chaka explained he didn't recognise what Fritton was, but knew of a place that might be able to help. He escorted Jimmy and Fritton's data crystal to the major city of Sellenskell, and gave Jimmy one of his ships to take to the planet of Chlorike II, who were renowned for their expert knowledge and data archives.

Upon hearing a description of Fritton, many research facilities bustled with excitement and offered to help Jimmy analyse the crystal, leading Jimmy to wonder just what he had discovered in his former android friend. After several months of fatiguing travel, Jimmy entered the Chlorike System for the first time and found himself surrounded by the technological metropolis that is Chlorike II. Upon confirming that Jimmy really did have the crystal, the scientists explained what Fritton really was: a Far Reaching Intergalactic Tyrannical Threat Observation Node, a scout android created in ancient times by early worshippers of the entity Purhtos, designed to observe the darkest corners of the universe and watch for signs of activity from the dark beast Astros. Many millenia ago, it was assumed all FRITTON scouts were destroyed in the conflict between Purhtos and Astros, however it seemed this one had been merely damaged and had its memory wiped, creating an android unaware of its history, that had filled its time harmlessly studying in the great libraries of the universe. Upon its death, Fritton's subconscious data drive left a message from the last time it knew of its true function, just before having its memory wiped. Chlorike II's scientists roughly translated it to "The Creature of Night has split, but pieces of it remain. They are sentient. They will return."

Return to Afrazel
Jimmy, weary of his exile and long periods travelling, sought to return home to Afrazel.

Personal Life
Jimmy the Wizard, due to the nature of his duties as Chief of the U.P.A and the travelling associated with it, often times resides in hotels on other planets or on his spaceship 'Scarlet Empress '. However, his official residence is an ancient temple in the heart of Armoury, Afrazel's capital city, which was granted to Jimmy by the city after his ascension to Head of Sorcery. The temple was built by the legendary sorcerer Hunt-Hind the Spirit (who served alongside the equally legendary Jerome the Participator) many millennia preceding Jimmy's life, thus possessing a lot of significance and value.

Jimmy's mother tongue is Urmoni, one of the two majority languages in Afrazel that is widely spoken in Armoury and the main language of the Huntic Ocean landmasses. However he is also very fluent in Wesonian, the other majority language mostly spoken on the Jeromic Ocean landmasses. He can also confidently speak the Vovani tongue, having resided on their planet in his youth for several decades. He also learned English due to the Afrometer's strong trade links with Earth. His tutor was a man from Oxford, thus Jimmy speaks English in a very upper class manner.

Appearance
Jimmy the Wizard sports a scarlet red afro, which is the third most common afro colour, after emerald green and dark blue. He always publicly wears a purple robe, which occasionally has a star and moon pattern on it. His vision is poorer than all in his family except Chommy, henceforth he wears very thick round goggles. In terms of physical size, he is in the middle of the road amongst his siblings, being shorter than Gumbol and Woozoo, but taller than Gobble and Chommy. He always carries his cane with him, which is made from the wood of the Methuselah pine tree of Earth, which was chosen because of its extreme lifespan of over 4000 years. This cane channels his natural energy from his afro, through his body and out of its specially crafted tip. Keeping with the Wizard family tradition of naming their magical objects with "Duke of " Jimmy named it the Duke of Spirits. However his cane is more commonly known as the Cane of Methuselah. He has long and thin moustache which he grows to symbolise discipline and patience, as the extremely slow growing beards of Afrometers take up to 150 years to reach that length.

Personality
Jimmy defining characteristic is his vast courage, exemplified in his numerous confrontations with his foes across the stars. He is extremely driven to reach his goals, and he is very passionately loyal and protective to those he loves most. Like most of his younger brothers, Jimmy possesses high levels of intelligence, however they have manifested in his vast magical abilities rather than in a more academic form, as he was not considered a 'genius' in his regular studies at school by any means. Jimmy has great confidence in himself, and is a fantastic leader who people tend to rally behind.

Jimmy does have some negative aspects to his personality however. His courage and drive are so extreme that it can lead to arrogant stubbornness, to the point where he can recklessly chase his targets rather than listen to more rational advice (such as when he ended his political career to personally hunt Sakan). He can also be rather vain and prideful. Despite knowing of his brother Gumbol's jealous feelings towards Jimmy's status early in their lives, he made no attempts to hide or play down his glory, and rather enjoys the admiration of others. He can also be quite spiteful and bitter towards his enemies, and tends to carry resentment and grudges for long periods.