User blog comment:Imouto-tan/Fina Bicchieri/@comment-4867780-20161227043634/@comment-26362471-20161227221241

She has limited Water Magic as indicated by the whole Water Balloon technique paragraph, but she mostly focuses on her Phoenix heritage and fire magic.

Indeed he was afraid of his step-mother (Fina), Sherria and Ilona. He wouldn't have been as destructive if Mingxia hadn't banished Huozai's only mother that tried to raise him.

Bête Noire is the new name for the Dark Maw.

Huozai is only the way he is because his biological mother and uncle raised him to be a brutal warlord unlike his soft father. Despite all of his intelligence (especially since it took him +100 years out figure out that he was being manipulated by them) he is actually pretty gullible and easy to fool if convincing enough.