Kale

"Do you see it now? Everything has gone off its proper course. No one else can bring order back to the world. My way is the only way to restore perfection..."

- Kale

Kale, known as in Japan as Jin Reo, 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. Kale and his subordinate Chard command the astro pirates.

Personality
Kale is a very standoffish, mysterious, and commanding person with an apparent messiah complex. 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, but lost hope in mankind after seeing how violent and incompetent they were.

Appearance
Kale's body is gray 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.

Boss
Kale is fought alongside the gummy giant. Kale's affinity will be the opposite of the protagonist's affinity, giving him either the light starsign with an aura during the day, or the dark starsign with an aura during the night. With light affinity, Kale can perform the front and back row versions of crystal laser, while with dark affinity, he can perform blood money and dazzle darts. Additionally, despite being tied to a single affinity, Kale can use magic attacks from every other affinity. These are: falcon dive from wind; gravel pounder from earth; briar patch from wood; heat fondu from fire; and absolute zero from water. He also possesses the neutral spell celestial swap, allowing him to control the alignment of the planets to his advantage; Kale will use this spell more variably than most other enemies, and is capable of aligning the planets to deal massive damage to the party. He also has the neutral spell insect bullets, which strikes all party members with the potential to lower their spirit. He has high HP and spirit, and sometimes performs two actions in one turn.

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

Japanese
宇宙警察を　うらであやつっていた　魔法学校のそつぎょうせい. ぼうだいなちしきと　けいけんから　強力な魔法を使う.

A graduate of the Magic Academy who controlled the Space Police behind the scenes. He uses magic from his vast knowledge and experience.

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

A decade 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 felt envious of Kale's rise to power and wanted their old customs to be preserved, harassing him to the point where he was nearly expelled from the castle. Kale continued to work hard for the nation, but slowly lost his faith in humanity as the public turned against him. He studied more at Ambergris Preparatory School on the planet Cassia, where he first obtained Craaken's Book of the Darned. From the book, he learned many things about the Baklava solar system's metaphysical concepts, including the etherealization phenomenon and Nova's occupation within the sun. Kale also read about a larva named Shadra, who fed off of magic energy and lived on the titular dark planet Shadra. The dark planet occupied the sun's interior as well, but in a dimension parallel to Nova. According to Craaken, Shadra was prophesized to destroy the universe by devouring the sun when it completed metamorphosis. Afterwards, it would give birth to a new sun, and in turn produce a new universe. To Kale, mankind was no longer competent enough to keep the Baklava system alive. He believed himself to be the only one capable of fulfilling Craaken's prophecy, and so plotted to hasten Shadra's metamorphosis to annihilate and renew the universe.

Kale continued to search for ways to contact Nova inside the sun, and then find a way into Shadra's dimension. Craaken's book taught of the ancient 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 Shishkebab Cavern on Razen. In order to go through with this plan, Kale seized control of the Bena Rikashi Space Police with the help of its fighting instructor, Biek Fowler, making them completely disobedient to King Suspiro's authority. As this scheme was unfolding, Kale flew across the Baklava system to confide in Rogan Josh, Parfait, Principal Biscotti, Miss Madeleine, and King Suspiro about the impending apocalypse and the sun's secrets, only providing vague hints as to what his goal was.

Some time later, Kale and Fowler joined forces with Master Chard of the astro pirates. Chard would be in charge of abducting magicians across the Baklava system, keeping them locked inside Shishkebab Cavern until the voyage to Nova. Kale's intent was to bring the kidnapped magicians with him to the dark planet, have them crystallize from its ambient gummy fumes, and offer their encased magic cores to Shadra in its larva form. It was also around this time when Kale created the odd beetle at Suspiro's behest, which would act as the guardian of the Couscous Ruins.

Magical Starsign
In present time on Kovomaka, the protagonist and their classmates overheard a conversation between Biscotti and Madeleine. Biscotti had received word of Kale's troublesome actions on Puffoon, and how he was using the astro pirates to carry out his evil deeds. In hopes of stopping Kale, Biscotti sent Madeleine off to Puffoon. Three months later, when she had not yet returned, the students took it upon themselves to find Madeleine.

After the protagonist, Mokka, and Lassi left Cassia, Kale was seen approaching the Stone Stage, and before him laid an unconscious Miss Madeleine. A pirate otter then ran up to the stage, warning Kale of Chard's defeat at the students' hands. Kale responded with amusement, though wished for the students to be kept at bay for the time being. Kale would not be seen again until the party, now reunited with Chai and Pico, arrived at Shishkebab Cavern while chasing Sorbet. They watched her bring Celadon to Kale and Chard, hoping he would be a sufficient sacrifice for Shadra. Kale rejected Sorbet's dubious offering, exiling her from the Stone Stage. Using his own magic with Razen's energy, Kale triggered etherealization and warped himself, Chard, Madeleine, and his underlings into the sun.

During their quest to find the five millennium gummies, the party visited King Suspiro on Puffoon to learn more of Kale's history, and how his mistrust in mankind came to be. They then ventured through Couscous Ruins and saw time-bent mirages of Kale and Madeleine, replaying their encounter from three months ago. In these mirages, Madeleine tried talking Kale out of sacrificing the Baklava system's magicians for Shadra, only to be abducted and brought to the Stone Stage by his subordinates.

Trivia

 * His English name comes from 'kale', a type of green and purple cabbage.
 * His Japanese name, Jin Reo, comes from オレンジ orenji, the phonetic spelling for 'orange'.
 * In the Japanese version of the game, Kale has two voice lines that were removed overseas. These are "You've come at last..." at the start of battle, and "Is this it...?"  when defeated.
 * He bears many similarities to Sesame from the prequel, Magical Vacation.
 * Kale has the power to create 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 even seen with a bushy moustache in his epilogue at the end of Magical Vacation.
 * In Sesame's epilogue, it says he became an antiques researcher who published many papers. He also modified Latte's body into a rocket and launched him off of Kovomaka, demonstrating his prestige and interest in outer space.