Chai

"The impetuous and willfull Chai is an odd salamander who draws upon the magical power of the forest."

Chai is a party member in Magical Starsign. He is a young mage of the salamander race who can command the element of Wood, and attends Will-o'-Wisp Academy. He and Pico are best friends.

Party member
Chai is first present as a member of the party in the game's tutorial sequence at Will-o'-Wisp Academy. He is later recruited as a permanent party member after the player defeats Mugwort on Puffoon.

His starsign is Wood, receiving aura when Gren is in alignment. His spells are primarily geared towards stat boosting.

Personality
Chai is sensitive, but has a high mental capacity regarding stress. He is often first to project his feelings about a subject, and is very expressive. Even with these traits, it is said that Chai is very timid and quiet most of the time. Though he is often ostracized by his own kind for his magic powers, he is very open towards the subject. Pico also describes him as "such a chill little salamander" at one point in the game.

Appearance
Chai is a green salamander. On his head, he has yellow lightning-bolt shaped markings that trail down to his face, blue eyes, and red hair that appears in tufts on his cheeks and in a fluffy ponytail atop his head. He wears golden rings on his neck that match the golden hair tie on his head. The only garments he wears are blue boots with white and red geometric accents, and a golden belt with red jewels. On the belt are also white strips of cloth that appear to have been sewn on, and have blue and red arrows embroidered onto them.

Magical Starsign
Chai was born as the only son of a salamander family who lived near the academy. Like all salamanders, his parents could not use magic, but they soon learned that Chai was a rare exception. His ability to cast magic made him an outcast amongst other salamanders, who considered his gift to be a shameful oddity.

Chai and the other five students learn of Miss Madeleine's orders to fly to Puffoon, wherein she will face a rogue magician named Kale. Madeleine later takes them to the academy's Meditation Room, and Chai assists the protagonist in learning the basics of Rows in combat. Once the combat lesson is over, Chai eagerly asks Madeleine if the students will be going to space, to which she says "no", but admits to having an odd foreshadowy feeling.

It is not until three months later when the students grow concerned, as Madeleine has been absent for three months following her voyage to Puffoon. When Lassi is suddenly missing, their curiosity leads them up the academy's clocktower and into a hangar crowded with rockets. One of these rockets is being operated by Lassi, who carelessly activates it and blasts off into space. The protagonist boards one as well in an attempt to chase after Lassi, which results in the two of them crash landing on Erd.

After the protagonist and Lassi escape from Erd, and subsequently reunite with Mokka on Cassia, they are given the option of either flying to Puffoon or Gren. Upon landing on Puffoon, the trio berths their magic rocket in the planet's Spaceport, and to their surprise, a Will-o'-Wisp rocket is parked there too. They enter the futuristic city of Bena Rikashi to file a Missing Persons report to the Space Police, believing it will bring them one step closer to saving Madeleine. However, they go through each desk in the Space Police HQ to no avail, that is until they reach the top floor where the chief's office is located. They address Kale and the Astro Pirates with the stand-in chief, Mugwort, but he condescendingly rejects their concerns.

With the Space Police no longer being of use to the students, they leave the HQ building and bump into a cheery felin named Parfait, who correctly assumes that they attend Will-o'-Wisp. She invites them over to "her house" on the city's outskirts, where she asks them to help her find a special book. This book turns out to be the Book of the Darned; a grimoire that supposedly curses and kills anyone who reads its contents. Parfait hastily takes the book and alludes to her possible familiarity of Madeleine and Kale, but when the students try and follow her, they are instead confronted by a Space Police officer. It turns out Parfait had duped them, and "her house" is actually Kale's laboratory. Suddenly, the officer receives a call about a salamander escaping custody, which he urgently responds to.

Down the street is none other than Chai, who anxiously warns his friends that the Space Police are pursuing them. Before he can say anything else, two officers chase him out of the city and into Quinoa Plain. The three students leave the city as well and encounter Brioche the rabbit. Brioche invites them to meet up with Chai in the village of Honey Mint, where he supposedly has stolen police documents.

The four students finally reunite in Honey Mint with Brioche and his father Cresson. Lassi takes a look at the documents that Chai stole, which is actually a list of magicians kidnapped by the Astro Pirates. They read further down to see Madeleine's name, with the arresting officer being cited as the Space Police's fighting instructor, Biek Fowler. Brioche suggests the students ask Twigadamus the local clairvoyant for help, but before they can leave, Mugwort flies in alongside Brie Pourri, the Space Police chief. Pourri orders Mugwort to deal with the students as she flies back to the HQ building with Chai in her grasp.

The Will-o'-Wisp group, sans Chai, win against Mugwort and his planet-shifting magic, only to be scolded for assaulting an officer. In a last-minute effort to get Mugwort off their backs, Cresson offers Brioche's piggy bank containing two million bira as compensation. The bribe surprisingly works, to the dismay of Brioche, and the stand-in police chief flies back to Bena Rikashi. As Brioche sobs at the loss of his hard-earned money, he is consulted by Twigadamus the prophetic stick and told that his dreams are destined to come true. The students talk to Twigadamus, who seems familiar with Madeleine, and lets them gaze into his magic crystal. Presented to them is a brief vision of the Space Police HQ, and a treasure chest next to a brownie outside the village.

When interacting with the aforementioned brownie, he reels up a fallen chest containing a special item called the Tempus Forget, which has the power to manipulate peoples' consciousness. The students return to Bena Rikashi and unleash the Tempus Forget in the Space Police HQ, making every trooper temporarily braindead and allowing safe access to Brie Pourri's reception desk. Next to her is a treasure box containing Chai, and upon his release, he proposes a theory regarding the Space Police and Astro Pirates. He alleges that someone is gathering magicians from Gren and sending them off to Razen, which could mean Madeleine is on Gren in some sort of pirate hideout. Chai seems discouraged when he admits to not having a functional rocket, but luckily for him, the other students bring him to Neumann, and he finally joins the party.

Return to Kovomaka
When he returned to Kovomaka, Chai began to study in the hopes of improving his skill in magic. He eventually became bored spending his time studying, and chose to sneak into a storage locker near the fuel tank in Mokka, who had been converted to a rocket, prior to his launch into deep space.

Trivia

 * The name "Chai" comes from 'masala chai', an Indian tea made with aromatic herbs and spices.