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Angus

The Mystic Knight of Earth

Angus begins as a small-time pickpocket in his village, with a well-known reputation as a thief and a self-professed specialty in picking locks. After sneaking into Cathbad's room to visit Rohan, then running out from the 'magical mishap' he causes, Angus is caught by a guard for a different theft and hauled to the King's dungeon. He's quickly freed by Rohan in trade for coming to find Draganta, but not without annoyance at having to walk so far for a dubious quest.

While it's common for Rohan to joke that Angus never thinks, he's adept at bluffs and misdirection to trick his targets, and is typically the one to come up with a plan when the team's been cornered in battle. However, Angus is often tempted by shortcuts, and is easily distracted by food, jewels, magic, and above all, gold. He's also reluctant to do any work he deems tedious or boring. If he isn't able to pawn it off on someone else, he'll take every break he can get along the way.

As the only member of the Mystic Knights to not have been raised in a castle, Angus fails to share the manners, tact, and formality of the other four. He'll frequently interrupt to joke, taunt, lie, snap, or flirt without thinking of the consequence, meaning that even when the others agree with him, his behaviour still forces their reproach. Despite this, his impulsivity makes him just as quick to defend his friends, and he serves as a competent leader for the team when Rohan is away or incapacitated.

The history between Angus and Rohan is a reoccurring focus of the show. Although it's never said when or how they meet, they've been "friends for life" since they were boys, and were already friends by the time Rohan met Cathbad, Deirdre, and Conchobar. At some point, Rohan moved from the castle into a hut in their village; Angus has presumably lived with him since then, but refers to it as Rohan's hut. Notably, and in contrast to his usual approach of 'flight', Angus has put himself in repeated and potentially lethal danger to save Rohan, and has made multiple points of dropping everything else to fix a problem Rohan was having.

Angus is the Mystic Knight of Earth. After demonstrating an act of honesty, he earned his Terra Sling Mace from King Fin Varra, which he can swing to launch boulders and trigger earthquakes. He summons his Mystic Armour by shouting, "Earth beneath me," which he earned at the caves to the west by defeating Bane Morfan, the Rock Wolf of Temra.