Chai

Chai チャイ Chai
Artwork for Magical Starsign by Shinichi Kameoka
Starsign	Wood
Gender	Male
Species	Salamander
Age	11
Height	98cm
Weight	23kg
Birthplace	Near Will-o'-Wisp Academy, Kovomaka
Relative(s)	Unnamed parents
Occupation(s)	Will-o'-Wisp student
Affiliation(s)	Low Class B
Voice Actor	Naomi Osada

Chai is a party member in Magical Starsign. 11 years old, he is a salamander who specializes in the wood starsign and attends Will-o'-Wisp Academy. His rare ability to cast magic makes him an oddity among other salamanders, but he is valued among his classmates as a useful and dependable friend. After Chai and the others blast off into outer space, he lands on Puffoon where he is persecuted by the Space Police for his powers. He manages to steal important documents that not only point to the disappearance of Miss Madeleine, but an even greater conspiracy between the Space Police and astro pirates.

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. He can be especially defensive about his unique ability to use magic, especially when called out by other salamanders, though he is still quite open towards the subject with his friends. He also demonstrates a childlike sense of wonder, as seen in his misbelief that stars were food prior to the Starfall Festival. In Japanese, Chai habitually punctuates 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

	Name Starsign Lv. HP MP Chai Wood 10 333 41
MP% Pow IQ Def Spr Agi 9% 8 9 10 13 13
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Wild magic Make leaves appear, especially while Gren's aura is active
Skills Tail swipe Guard Flee Move
Magic Name MP Description Lv. Pepperthorn 5 Punish your foes with rings of thorns. 1 Minty freshness 10 Use a sprinkle of mint to boost your Def and Spr. 14 Briar patch 30 Grow a thorny vine beneath your enemy. 24 Parsley wall 100% Build a wall to protect against physical attacks. 35 Cactus crush 60 Call on giant cacti to squishify your foes. 46

Descriptions

Descriptions
Magical Starsign manual	Chai is the only child of a salamander family that lives near the academy. His parents are normal salamanders, but curiously, he has been able to use magic since birth.
Magical Vacation: Itsutsu no Hoshi ga Narabu Toki - Mahō Wakusei Kansoku Nyūmonsho	しゃべりかたは独特でも魔法の力は一人前！ サンショウウオ一家一人息子で、生まれて間もなく魔法を使えるようになった、たぐいまれな才能の待ち主。ごく普通のサンショウウオの両親とともに、魔法学校ウィル・オ・ウィスプのすぐ近くに住んでいる。 TrTranslation: He may have a peculiar way of speaking, but his magic powers are top-notch! The only son of a family of salamanders, he is a child with unparalleled talent who was able to use magic shortly after he was born. He lives very close to the Magic School Will-o'-Wisp with his parents, who are ordinary salamanders.

Biography

Early life

Chai was born as the only son of a salamander family residing near Will-o'-Wisp Academy. Like most salamanders, his parents were incapable of conjuring magic, but Chai was strangely able to use magic from a very young age. His rare ability made him an outcast amongst other salamanders, but after enrolling in Will-o'-Wisp, he made friends with the protagonist, Lassi, Mokka, Pico, and Sorbet in Miss Madeleine's Low Class B.

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 confront the astro pirates led by rogue magician and Will-o'-Wisp alumnus Kale. Madeleine later brought her students 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 since 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. Chai boarded one of the remaining rockets, which sent him to Puffoon. In Bena Rikashi, Bossa found Chai and attempted to smuggle him to Tropica Village. They were caught by the Space Police, but Chai escaped and hid around the city.

After the protagonist and Lassi escaped from Erd, and subsequently reunited with Mokka on Cassia, they docked their rocket in Bena Rikashi's spaceport and noticed Chai's rocket. They entered Bena Rikashi to file a missing persons report to the Space Police, believing it would bring them 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. While retrieving toilet paper for the stand-in chief Mugwort, who ultimately turned them down, Chai hid in a toilet in one of the bathroom stalls.

With the Space Police no longer of use, the students left the HQ and bumped into Parfait. She invited them over to "her house" on the city's outskirts, where she asked them to help her find the Book of the Darned. Parfait hastily took the book, but when the students tried to follow her, they were 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. 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, he was chased into Quinoa Plain. The students left the city as well and encountered Brioche. Brioche invited them to meet up with Chai in Honey Mint, revealing that he had run off with secret police documents.

Battling Mugwort in Honey Mint

The four students eventually reunited in Honey Mint with Brioche and his father, Cresson. Lassi took a peek at the documents that Chai stole, which was actually a list of magicians abducted by the astro pirates. They read further down to see Madeleine's name, with Biek Fowler cited as the arresting offiver. Brioche suggested the students ask Twigadamus for help, but before they could do so, Mugwort flew in alongside Brie Pourri. Pourri ordered Mugwort to deal with the students as she flew back to the HQ building with Chai in her grasp. Upon defeating Mugwort, Cresson bribed him away with Brioche's piggy bank of two million bira. Luckily, a distraught Brioche was consoled by Twigadamus, who returned to the village and gave the party clues for rescuing Chai.

After obtaining the tempus forget, the students returned to the Space Police HQ and unleashed it to sneak past the officers and reach Pourri's desk, where Chai was trapped inside a chest. Chai alleged that the astro pirates were gathering magicians from Gren and sending them off to Razen, to which he joined the party and accompanied them to the wood planet.

After Magical Starsign

Chai stowed away inside Rocket Mokka

As Chai continued to refine his magic at Will-o'-Wisp, he started to grow discontent with his studies. Around ten years later, Lassi successfully rebuilt Mokka into a prototype 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 outside the Baklava system. On the day of Rocket Mokka's launch, Chai snuck into a space between the main engine and fuel tank, soaring beyond Baklava with Mokka and the protagonist.

Trivia

• Chai is the only member of the main party who has the same name in Japanese and English.
• He is voiced by Naomi "Naomix" Osada, an illustrator and graphics artist at Brownie Brown who is mentioned in the game's Special Thanks credits.
• He is known to dislike loud noises. It is also implied that he gets motion sick easily.
• Pico calling Chai a "chill little salamander" is actually an embellishment added to the English localization.
• When Chai wears the garden mitts, the ability that doubles the effects damage-dealing and HP-restoring items is named "itemize" in the game's internal data.

Nomenclature

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

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	チャイ Chai	Chai
English	Chai
French	Chai	Chai
German	Chai	Chai
Italian	Chai	Chai
Spanish	Chai	Chai

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