Navi (Dropped)

Navi can become an incorporeal breeze, allowing her to travel quickly (and between planes, in worlds with such constructs) and reach very high or difficult places. She can pass through openings too small for a human. This also makes it difficult for her to come to harm from nature's own elements or physical sources of danger (albeit less so when they're of Heroic origins), but she is always vulnerable to spellcraft.

Navi can weave spells that focus the element of her affinity. She can deliver rending spells through strikes of her weapons and compress air into a cutting blade itself, or conjure the winds to curative purposes instead. There are also more subtle shapings such as stoking or starving an existing fire, cushioning someone's fall, making words carry on the wind, or drawing away toxic miasma. She isn't able to do such grand things as change weather patterns (unless it were to require only a gentle nudge), but she could create a small pocket of calm. And, of course, she tends to be very sensitive towards changes in air and atmosphere.

Rather than an immediate and ephemeral effect, Navi traces runes to make such spells that persist over longer periods, independently of the caster. These are generally more minor effects than a casted spell, such as healing over a longer time, granting a supply of fresh air, or imbuing weapons so their attacks strike with the cutting force of a gale. Navi cannot make enchantments outside of her element save by the assistance of another mage: If a client wanted their weapon turned incendiary, Navi would need the cooperation of a fire mage to channel the spell while it's imbued.

She can make a variety of enchantments that are elementally unaspected: trinkets to assist with a spellcaster's concentration and focus, to make an item resist wear and tear, or more easily take some other enchantment. These aren't likely to change a mage's effectiveness much, instead simply making their art easier or more convenient.

Navi can create wards to help in the safekeeping of an area against intruders, a type of being, or types of magic. She can also unmake enchantments, given enough time; gradually cleansing a cursed item or unraveling the wards of some location as two examples.

Navi is martially skilled at wielding sword-type weapons, preferring curved blades.

Navi has a good sense of direction and spatial awareness. Even suddenly dropped somewhere completely unfamiliar, she can quickly conceptualize where places and landmarks are in relation to each other, and usually learn local conventions as well. But when it comes to cultures, Navi does not assimilate.

Naturally, Navi's elemental form is vulnerable to wards, enchantments, spells or so on aligned against magical beings; but as a consequence of Navi's mixed heritage, she is affected by these even when in human form -- even when they would normally not affect a human.

In places of abundance, not needing human needs of sustenance can seem like simply an advantage. The trouble is this. Human sustenance tends to be a near-universal requirement while aether is not and many places simply have none. A few days is no trouble and if planned, "rations" can be taken along. But should Navi go too long without a source, she will gradually and then more severely weaken and lose ability to recover. At the extreme end, she is not immune from starvation.

Telling Navi "it's the right thing to do" will just get it thrown back in your face. There are ways to push her to do a favor, but it isn't easy: she does not take kindly to anything seen as self righteous or preachy.

Navi has little care for the conventions and strictures that come with organized societies, often leading to fiery clashes. She's also unlikely to turn to any lawful authority for help, nor to be forthcoming with any information or other assistance.

Navi's vision is not the greatest. The threat of damage to her spectacles can leave her no choice but to be more cautious in a conflict; should something happen to them, she would be forced to rely more on her other senses and lose effectiveness outside of close quarters.