Favia

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Animal-Raised Orphan and London Craftsman

Favia was Novia’s identity in sixteenth-century England. Like his earlier lives in Rome and among the Huns, he was born an orphan, but this time no human adopted him. A she-wolf first fed him, and other animals subsequently helped raise him 113 114.

At seven, he left the animals and traveled to London. He studied wool production, trade, retail, and shipbuilding through direct participation, sometimes using illusions to appear adult. After roughly four years among the city’s poorest residents, a physician treating the slums invited him to visit the Clock Tower 114.

Although talented in magecraft, Favia attended only some lectures and did not pursue research. He instead worked in woolen mills and shipyards, arguing that impoverished ordinary people were the ones supporting the world 119 120.

Baobhan Sith and the Silver Key

Paracelsus sent Favia to Scotland to investigate a reported bloodsucking creature because the Association had forbidden Paracelsus from traveling. Favia discovered Baobhan Sith, a red-haired fairy with deer hooves, frightening hunters without actually killing or feeding on them. He initially planned to scare her away, then learned about her fear of humans and mistreatment by other fairies 114.

He took Baobhan Sith with him and treated her without disgust toward her hooves. She began helping at his shipyard, and he repaired her injured throat. Their friendship became explicit when she called him her friend and he affirmed the same 117 120.

Da Vinci later invited Favia to Rome for Alexander VI’s theological debate with Martin Luther. Favia agreed partly because he feared the pope might poison Luther. After the debate, his pendant pointed toward the Mediterranean, leading him and Baobhan Sith to Montecristo Island. There, a silver fragment fused with the object he had worn since birth, revealing it as the incomplete Silver Key 114 121 126.

Château d’If

On Montecristo, Favia encountered Abigail Williams amid supernatural purple mist. His magecraft initially resisted her attacks, but contact with an otherworldly gaze incapacitated him. After the confrontation, he found himself unable to use magecraft and was separated from Baobhan Sith 127 128.

Favia and Abigail spent nineteen years together in Château d’If. Although he continued to appear young to Abigail, imprisonment weakened his body. Going above the dungeon triggered attacks of what he suspected was catalepsy, preventing him from leaving 128 134 141.

Under the identity of Faria, he became Edmond Dantès’s teacher. He asked Edmond not to avenge him, but to protect others, including Fran, and deal with Alessandro Cagliostro. As his condition worsened, he wrote to Baobhan Sith, blessed Edmond, and entrusted him with delivering the letter. His heart subsequently stopped 140 141.

Abigail refused to accept his death and invoked her own existence as the Silver Key, enveloping him in purple mist. Favia is next shown back with Da Vinci, before returning to London to fulfill his promise to help Paracelsus 142 143 144.

Paracelsus’s Rescue and the Atlantic Voyage

Favia rejected Pope Julius’s invitation to join the Church and went to London. In the Spirit Tomb, he reunited with Baobhan Sith and confronted Barthomeloi, drawing on power supplied by the tomb to overcome his resistance 144 146.

The Clock Tower concealed Barthomeloi’s death and publicly expelled Paracelsus. Three months later, Favia and Baobhan Sith departed Seville aboard a magically powered ship designed by Favia and Da Vinci. Paracelsus, Da Vinci, and Makiri saw them off 147.

Reforming the Americas

Favia arrived seeking the Silver Key’s final component, but chose to intervene in the suffering of Central and South America. Tlaloc initially attacked him as an outsider threatening her world. He defeated her and proceeded with reforms despite her warning that abolishing sacrifice would bring destruction 148 149 150 151.

As Quetzalcoatl’s emissary, he gained Moctezuma II’s trust and united the Aztec-aligned nations with the Maya states. He established a central legal code, trained judges, relaxed restrictions on luxury goods, banned human sacrifice, and ended the Flower Wars. He also rescued Indigenous people enslaved in Cuba and enabled different peoples to understand one another’s languages 152 154 161.

Tezcatlipoca then showed him the earlier Sun Ages, agreed to help locate the missing Silver Key fragment, and gave him the Jaguar Man mask. At the first grand ritual after unification, Tlaloc assumed Cipactli’s form intending to sacrifice herself for the new era. Favia refused to kill her and instead resolved to create a future outside the old sacrificial rules 154 156 162.

ORT and the Return to Moon Lake

After defeating Cipactli, Favia confronted ORT beneath the earth. He used Black Sun to exchange the present moment for one a month later, postponing their final battle while arranging for Moctezuma II to govern and Bartolomé and Geronimo to continue spreading the faith 165.

Favia returned to Crystal Valley as the imitation Sun UO and fought ORT through an immense span of repeated clashes. His World Tree eventually withered, his solar protection failed, and ORT killed him. With the actual sun’s support, he rose again and defeated ORT using the combined power of the solar system 170 171 172 177.

He later returned to a prosperous Tenochtitlan celebrating Tonatiuh. Seeing that its people had survived and resisted foreign domination, he placed the completed Silver Key on a bench and entered Moon Lake. Tlaloc caught him, confessed her love, and kissed him as he died and faded away 174.

Later Activity as Novia

Favia subsequently appeared as Novia, while still allowing Siegfried to call him Favia or Favia Tonatiuh. He later joined Chaldea through an assignment arranged with Sion and used Favia’s Pretender abilities during Singularity F 194 213 301.

Da Vinci investigated his identity, initially testing whether Novia was the Favia she remembered. She eventually confirmed the connection and confronted him with reports identifying his appearances as Father Faria, Pope Novia, and other figures 297 298 408.

Appearance

• Silver hair: Appears as a silver-haired boy at fifteen and retains a youthful appearance during his imprisonment 113 128 141.
• Tide-blue eyes: Described as cold, clear, and merciless when facing ORT 171.
• Work clothes: Wears coarse cloth and a straw hat while working in the shipyard 119.
• Jaguar Man disguise: Tezcatlipoca’s mask turns his hair blond. He later wears half of the mask continuously, reinforcing his public image as the sun 156 165.
• Solar manifestation: Can become a red-and-blue giant body of light; in his battle with ORT, it reaches approximately one hundred meters in height 171.
• Difficult artistic subject: Da Vinci considers him impossible to draw properly. Favia refuses Michelangelo’s proposal to model for a nude statue 124.

Personality

Favia’s compassion emphasizes dignity and independence rather than obedience. He treats Baobhan Sith as an ordinary person rather than an abnormal fairy, encourages her to stop being excessively servile, and hopes she can eventually live without depending on charity. He similarly tells a child who wants to join his story to pursue a story in which the child is the protagonist 117 120 141 157.

He values ordinary labor despite his magical talent. His careful shipbuilding and textile work reflect his belief that mundane workers sustain the world. His political reforms likewise prioritize law, protection from enslavement, and an end to sacrificial violence 119 120 154 161.

He is also deliberately mischievous. He invents explanations to tease Baobhan Sith, flusters her with romantic jokes, and impersonates Tezcatlipoca to provoke Tlaloc. In combat, however, he is direct and unsentimental: he does not spare Tlaloc merely because she is attractive, and later faces ORT with an unyielding sense of purpose 122 126 149 156 172.

Abilities & Skills

Magecraft and Combat

• Illusions: Conceals his childhood appearance to participate in adult work and uses illusions during his travels 114 126.
• Reinforcement: Enhances his entire body before advancing through Tlaloc’s assault 148.
• Magic projectiles: Fires splitting, spiraling bullets capable of rendering a target unconscious for days with a graze 127.
• Close combat: Uses rapid punches, feints, grapples, and kicks to damage Tlaloc’s weapon and overwhelm her 149.
• Pain endurance: Continues through divine attacks and ORT’s assaults without allowing pain to break his resolve 148 171 172.
• Temporary loss of magecraft: Cannot use magecraft throughout his imprisonment following the Montecristo confrontation 127 134.

Odin’s Runes

• Creates magical workshops and offensive spells using runes received from Odin 56.
• Manifests a phantom of Yggdrasil, extending from the sea onto land 148.
• With sufficient mana, can reproduce a partial vision of the Age of Gods; the Yggdrasil manifestation draws on enough energy to erase a small city 148.

Craftsmanship and Item Construction

• Builds ships, processes timber, shapes heated components, and spins wool through practiced manual techniques 119 120.
• Treats Baobhan Sith’s damaged throat despite the procedure being his first surgery 120.
• As Novia, uses Pretender Item Construction to condense water into fabric-like support equipment around Mash 301.

Monte Cristo Protection and Guidance

• Guardian of Christ Mountain: EX: As guardian and representative of the Monte Cristo Treasure, grants blessings to those of good alignment through its protection 176.
• After passing his riches and secret treasure to Edmond, continues his legacy through knowledge 176.
• Please Be Happy, Children, Even If This Is Evil: E+++: Reflects his determination to bring happiness to children even within a prison defined by sorrow and hopelessness 176.

Bond-Based Noble Phantasm

• Embodies the principle “Wait, and hope” and his role as a guiding light for people trapped in despair 176.
• Allows connected figures—including Edmond Dantès, Moriarty, and Frankenstein—to appear as true Heroic Spirits against his enemies 176.
• Briefly realizes a sincere prayer through bonds of protection and freedom. Its basis is his existence in their hearts, rather than compulsion by the Throne 176.

Fifth Sun Authorities

• Brings together the four previous suns’ manifestations: jaguars, Gale, Torrential Rain, and Flood 162.
• Uses their combined power to defeat Cipactli 165.
• Transforms the Underworld’s roads of blood and corpses into flowers and life while manifesting the dreams of the region’s living beings 164.

Black Sun

• Uses the First Sun’s obsidian-mirror authority to control the flow and ordering of things that exist within the world 165.
• Can combine or substitute existing events, including reversing their sequence and changing their outcome 165.
• Cannot manipulate things that do not exist in the world 165.
• Excessively unreasonable alterations carry punishment. Favia incurs consequences when using it against ORT, though they are concealed beneath his mask 165.
• Postpones ORT’s emergence and their final confrontation by one month 165.

Sun UO and Planetary Powers

• World Tree Ceiba: Generates countless leaves that obstruct Crystal Valley’s reality-altering erosion and seal its exit 170.
• Planetary connection: Through a spiritron crystal equivalent to the Moon’s UO, borrows the abilities and manifestations of the solar system’s planetary UOs 171.
• Offense and containment: Uses Saturn’s spear of light and planetary powers to fight ORT while maintaining barriers around the otherworld 171.
• Finite imitation form: The tree’s withering represents damage and the depletion of his solar existence. Once its last leaf dies, his protection fails 171 172.
• True solar support: Receives the actual sun’s heat after death and combines the solar system’s power to defeat ORT 172 177.
• Transformation call: Can switch from his Fifth Sun identity to the Sun UO by declaring “Burn, sun!” The red-and-blue body of light is an appearance the sun favors, rather than his UO combat form 177.

Servant Parameters

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Silver Key: Worn in incomplete form since birth. Guides him to Montecristo, absorbs a fragment there, and is eventually completed. He leaves it on a bench beside Moon Lake 114 126 156 174.
• Jaguar Man mask: Tezcatlipoca’s gift; changes his hair to blond and supports the manifestation of the First Sun’s jaguars 156 162.
• Magically powered ship: Built from Favia and Da Vinci’s designs, with a control console and prepared large-scale magecraft 147 148.
• Craftsman’s tools: Uses lofting rulers, chalk lines, straightedges, saws, axes, and hammers in shipbuilding 119 120.
• Letter to Baobhan Sith: Written during his final days in Château d’If and entrusted to Edmond for delivery 141.

Relationships

• Baobhan Sith — Friend and traveling companion. He helps her recover from abuse, treats her throat, and promises to protect her. She develops deep affection for him and becomes jealous of Tlaloc’s interest 117 120 156 167 168.
• Abigail Williams — Accepted younger sister. Lives with him for nineteen years in Château d’If; he consistently reassures her of their bond. She invokes the Silver Key rather than allow his death to stand 134 141 142.
• Paracelsus — Teacher and friend. Recognizes Favia’s talent, entrusts him with the Scottish investigation, and later becomes the person Favia returns to London to rescue 114 119 144 146.
• Da Vinci — Friend and ship-design collaborator. Hosts him in Rome and later investigates whether Chaldea’s Novia is the Favia remembered from life 123 124 147 297 408.
• Edmond Dantès — Student and beneficiary of his knowledge, blessing, and treasure. Favia asks him to escape, protect others, and deliver his letter rather than seek revenge on his behalf 134 140 141 176.
• Tlaloc / Tenochtitlan — Initially an enemy who believes his reforms will destroy her world; later falls in love with him. Confesses and kisses him at Moon Lake as he dies 149 151 170 174 181.
• Tezcatlipoca — Divine ally who reveals the Sun Ages, helps with the Silver Key search, and grants the Jaguar Man mask and power 154 156.
• Moctezuma II — Devoted supporter who trusts him as Quetzalcoatl’s emissary. Favia repeatedly refuses his throne and leaves him responsible for governing 152 154 165.
• Makiri — Friend whose outlook is challenged by Favia’s respect for ordinary workers and their contribution to the world 119 120 147.
• Fran / Frankenstein — Calls him “Grandpa.” He asks Edmond to protect her and address the threat posed by Alessandro Cagliostro 138 140.
• Lord of El-Melloi — Claims he belongs to a lost branch of her family and offers a Magic Crest transplant. Favia says they barely know one another 119 120 121.
• ORT — Opponent in the struggle to prevent planetary destruction. Kills his exhausted imitation Sun UO form before being defeated by his renewed, fully supported solar manifestation 171 172 177.

Notable Quotes

“Not to avenge me, but to protect certain things for me.” 140

“It’s all right to be timid. It doesn’t matter if nobody praises you as ‘brave.’ Even so, live a few decades longer, and protect one more person if you can...” 141

“I won’t let anyone hurt you, Sith. That’s my promise.” 167

“The sun will never go out.” 172