Chai (Magical Starsign)

"Chai" redirects here. For the character in the EGGLIA series, see Chai (EGGLIA).

Chai チャイ Chai Chai
Artwork from Magical Starsign by Shinichi Kameoka
Starsign	Wood
Gender	Male
Species	Salamander
Age	11
Height	98cm
Weight	23kg
Relative(s)	Unnamed parents
Affiliation(s)	Party

"The impetuous and willful 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 commands wood magic and attends Will-o'-Wisp Academy. He and Pico are best friends.

Profile

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, Chai is shown to be very timid and quiet most of the time, but shows interest in peculiar things. Though he is often ostracized by his own kind for his magic powers, he is quite open towards the subject. In Japanese, he habitually ends his sentences with the Katakana character ノ no.

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.

Gameplay

Chai joins the party at the Space Police HQ on Puffoon after obtaining the tempus forget, starting at level 10. He uses the wood starsign, which is strong against wind, but weak to fire, and gains his aura when Gren is in phase. His magic is mostly distributed equally when cast from the back row, and can wear down enemies hit points with thorns. As for support, Chai's minty freshness boosts allies' defense and spirit, while parsley wall applies the wall status to block physical damage. As for stats, Chai makes use of great power, spirit, and agility.

Tutorial statsInitial statsMaximum stats

	Name Starsign Chai Wood 1 180 17
MP% Pow IQ Def Spr Agi 9% 3 3 4 5 5 Wild magic Make leaves appear, especially while Gren's aura is active Skills/Magic Skill Cost Description Level

	Name Starsign Chai Wood 10 333 41
MP% Pow IQ Def Spr Agi 9% 8 9 10 13 13 Wild magic Make leaves appear, especially while Gren's aura is active Skills/Magic Skill Cost Description Level

	Name Starsign Chai Wood 99 1782 220
MP% Pow IQ Def Spr Agi 9% 53 72 59 90 89 Wild magic Make leaves appear, especially while Gren's aura is active Skills/Magic Skill Cost Description Level

Biography

Early life

Chai was born as the only son of a salamander family who lived near Will-o'-Wisp Academy. Like all salamanders, his parents could not use magic, but they learned that Chai was a rare exception. His ability to cast magic made him an outcast amongst other salamanders, but after enrolling in Will-o'-Wisp, he made friends with his magician classmates.

Magical Starsign

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The students eavesdropping on Biscotti and Madeleine's conversation.

Chai and his friends learned of Miss Madeleine's orders to fly to Puffoon, wherein she would face a rogue magician named Kale and his astro pirates. Madeleine later took them to the academy's meditation room, and Chai assisted the protagonist in learning the basics of rows in combat. Once the lesson was over, Chai eagerly asked Madeleine if the students would be going to space as well, to which she said no, but admitted to having an odd foreshadowy feeling.

It was not until three months later when the students grew concerned, as Madeleine had not contacted Kovomaka following her voyage to Puffoon. When Lassi suddenly went missing, their curiosity led them up the academy's clocktower and into a hangar crowded with rockets. One of these rockets was being operated by Lassi, who carelessly activated it and blasted off into space. The protagonist boarded one as well in an attempt to chase after Lassi, resulting in the two of them crash landing on Erd.

After the protagonist and Lassi escaped from Erd, and subsequently reunited with Mokka on Cassia, they were given the option of either flying to Puffoon or Gren. Upon landing on Puffoon, they berthed their magic rocket in the planet's spaceport, and to their surprise, a Will-o'-Wisp rocket was parked there too. They entered the city of Bena Rikashi to file a Missing Persons report to the Space Police, believing it would bring them one step closer to saving Madeleine. However, they passed by each desk in the Space Police HQ to no avail, that was until they reached the top floor where the chief's office was located. After retrieving toilet paper for the stand-in chief Mugwort, he too rejected their pleas. Unbeknownst to them, Chai was hiding in the bathroom stall next to Mugwort's.

With the Space Police no longer being of use to the party, they left the HQ building and bumped into a felin named Parfait, who correctly assumed that they attended Will-o'-Wisp. She invited them over to "her house" on the city's outskirts, where she asked them to help her find a special book. This book turned out to be the Book of the Darned. Parfait hastily took the book and alluded to her possible familiarity of Madeleine and Kale, but when the students tried to follow her, they were instead confronted by a Space Police officer. It turned out Parfait had duped them, and "her house" was actually Kale's laboratory. Suddenly, the officer received a call about a salamander escaping custody, which he urgently responded to. Down the street was none other than Chai, who anxiously warned his friends that the Space Police were pursuing them. Before he could say anything else, two officers chased him out of the city and into Quinoa Plain. The students left the city as well and encountered Brioche the rabbit. Brioche invited them to meet up with Chai in the village of Honey Mint, revealing that he had run off with secret police documents.

Battling Mugwort in Honey Mint.

The students finally reunited in Honey Mint with Brioche, who was accompanied by his father Cresson. Lassi took a peek at the documents that Chai stole, which was 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 advised the students ask Twigadamus for help, but before they could do so, Mugwort flew in alongside Brie Pourri, the true Space Police chief. Pourri ordered Mugwort to deal with the students as she flew back to the HQ building with Chai in her grasp.

The Will-o'-Wisp group, sans Chai, won against Mugwort, only to be scolded for assaulting an officer. In a last-minute effort to get Mugwort off their backs, Cresson offered Brioche's piggy bank of two million bira as compensation. The bribe surprisingly worked, to the dismay of Brioche, and the stand-in police chief sailed back to Bena Rikashi. As Brioche sobbed at the loss of his hard-earned money, he was consulted by Twigadamus, who arrived to tell him that his dreams were destined to come true. The students talked to Twigadamus, who seemed familiar with Madeleine, and let them gaze into the magic crystal at his house. Presented to them was a brief vision of the Space Police HQ and a treasure chest.

After pushing the chest off a floating island, the party obtained a magical item called the tempus forget. They returned to Bena Rikashi and unleashed the tempus forget in the Space Police HQ, allowing them to sneak past the officers to Pourri's desk. Next to her was a treasure box containing Chai, and upon his release, he alleged that the pirates were gathering magicians from Gren and sending them off to Razen. As Chai joined the party, they boarded Neumann and flew off to Gren.

After Magical Starsign

As Chai continued to refine his magic at Will-o'-Wisp, he started to become discontent with his studies. Around ten years later, Lassi successfully rebuilt Mokka into a functional rocket. She lent the incomplete Rocket Mokka to the protagonist, who teamed up with the dwarves to turn Kahve Ruins into a radio telescope, after they detected a faint signal on the outer reaches of Baklava. On the day of Rocket Mokka's departure, Chai stowed away in a space between the main engine and fuel tank, blasting off beyond the Baklava solar system with Mokka and the protagonist.

Trivia

• Chai is the only party member in Magical Starsign whose name was not changed between Japanese and overseas versions.
• Chai is known to dislike loud noises. It is also implied that he gets motion sick easily.
• Despite being described as timid, he is shown to be very expressive and even quick tempered at times, getting especially defensive about his magic, going as far as to threaten another salamander for calling him a freak of nature.
• Chai is shown in-game to be the most empathetic, he is seen giving advice and even tries to defuse an argument between Sorbet and Pico.

Nomenclature

His name comes from चाय chaay (chai), meaning "tea" in Hindi.

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	チャイ Chai	Chai
French	Chai	From his Japanese name
German	Chai	From his Japanese name
Italian	Chai	From his Japanese name
Spanish	Chai	From his Japanese name

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