Kale

"This former Will-o'-Wisp Academy student manipulated the Space Police and led them on a mad crusade against magicians. He possesses vast knowledge."

Kale is the main antagonist of Magical Starsign. He is a powerful magician who originally came from Kovomaka, formerly a student of Miss Madeleine at Will-o'-Wisp Academy. He can command several magic elements, with his primary affinity being the opposite of the protagonist's (either Light or Dark).

Personality
Kale is a very standoffish, mysterious, and commanding person. He will use people to reach his goals with little thought of the consequences, going so far as to sacrifice his own allies. He is very devoted to his mission, against all reason, and is unfortunately extremely effective. Some allege that Kale was a good-natured student during his time at Will-o'-Wisp, making the cause for his corruption even more obscure.

Appearance
Kale's body is grey and thin, with most of his face being concealed by long blonde hair and a moustache. The only distinguishable feature of his face is a single blue eye. For clothing, Kale wears a baggy moss-colored hat and a muffler scarf of the same hue. His choice of clothing is green robes made up of several fabric strips, making them appear severely torn. He also wears a torn red cloak over top of his robes.

Backstory
Long before the events of Magical Starsign, Kale graduated from Will-o'-Wisp as one of Miss Madeleine's students. His time at the academy earned him lots of respect, as he became highly educated in the field of politics. Not only that, but his great charisma convinced many people to align with his beliefs.

10 years before present time, Kale befriended King Suspiro of Bena Rikashi on Puffoon. Suspiro was so impressed by Kale's public appeal and political knowledge that he earned his own place in the castle, and was even given a research lab on the east end of the city. However, many citizens were jealous of Kale's success and demanded he be removed from power. The Kovomakan mage also studied more at Ambergris Preparatory School on the planet Cassia, where he first got his hands on Craaken's legendary grimoire, the Book of the Darned. From the grimoire, he learned many things about the Baklava System's metaphysical concepts, including the etherealization phenomenon, Nova's occupation within the Sun, and the existence of a beast that will one day consume the Sun's plasma-gummy atmosphere. The beast in question is a larva named Shadra, who feeds off magic energy and lives on the similarly-named Dark Planet Shadra. This planet also occupies the Sun's interior and resides in a dimensional plane parallel to Nova.

Upon further analysis, Kale figured out that if Shadra devoured the Sun after completing metamorphosis, the entire galaxy would be destroyed in the process. However, Shadra would produce a new Sun afterward, thus giving rise to a completely blank-slate Baklava System. If Kale were to take advantage of the apocalypse prophesized by Craaken, he could create a "perfect world" in his image and ascend to godhood. This revelation corrupted Kale beyond repair, dragging him into a deep state of existential nihilism. He shared this dread with a young student of Ambergris Prep named Parfait, whom he confided in at the Bena Rikashi laboratory.

Kale's cruel enlightenment brought forth a new plan, wherein he would find a way to reach Nova through its multidimensional layering, and eventually enter a gate to Shadra's domain. Craaken's book taught Kale of the mystic yogart gurus' ability to astral project into the Sun on command, but it also detailed the whereabouts of a teleportation device called the Stone Stage, located at the very end of Shishkebab Caverns on Razen.

In order to go through with this scheme, he manipulated the Bena Rikashi Space Police with the help of its fiendish chief fighting instructor, Biek Fowler, making them completely disobedient to King Suspiro's authority. As this scheme was unfolding, Kale flew across the Baklava System one last time to tell Parfait, Biscotti, Madeleine, and Suspiro about the Sun's secrets, only providing vague hints as to what his ultimate goal was.

Roughly nine years later, Kale and Fowler joined forces with Master Chard of the Astro Pirates, who would be in charge of abducting magicians across the Baklava System and keeping them locked inside Shishkebab Caverns. Kale planned on bringing the kidnapped magicians with him to the Dark Planet, then have them crystallize from its ambient gummy fumes and offer their encased magic cores to the Shadra, the Giant Larva.

Battle
Kale is battled in the deepest part of Chromagar Cave alongside the Gummy Giant, whom he makes sentient via the Sword of Life. He has a high amount of HP and MP, and seems to be able to attack quickly, sometimes using two attacks in a row. He can use a variety of spells, not being limited to his own element, which is always the opposite of the player's.

Trivia

 * Kale bears many similarities to Sesame from the prequel, Magical Vacation.
 * Kale has the power to summon magic bugs, as seen in his Insect Bullets spell and the creation of the Odd Beetle. This greatly resembles Sesame's Insect Magic.
 * Sesame and Kale share similar physical traits such as blue eyes and dirty blonde hair. Sesame is also seen with a bushy moustache in his epilogue segment at the end of Magical Vacation.
 * In Sesame's epilogue, it is said that he became an antiques researcher who published many papers. He also modified Latte's body into a rocket and launched him into space, demonstrating his interest in space travel.
 * When Biscotti warns Madeleine of Kale's plans at the beginning of Magical Starsign, Madeleine recalls him being sensitive in his youth; a trait which Sesame is known for.

Name origin
Kale is a green and purple cabbage.

His Japanese name, Jin Reo (ジン・レオ, Jin Reo), is an anagram of the Japanese phonetic spelling for "orange" (オレンジ, Orenji).