Various character design biddies from over the years re: a humanish of mine called Mach Prester, for a storyline I dub "Faye Rowe". It's about an archipelago of tiny little planets held together in a shared atmosphere by gravitational forces and/or messed up magic, and this dude is a skilled Illusionist and mentor for young mages in making and crap. He argues the validity of creating just mirages and fake imagery versus the needless destruction involved with actual manifestation magic et al. And other trippy pseudo philosophy.

I likes his hat.