A mage huh? Where Eli's friend, mages, wizards, sorcerers, or whatever else you want to call them tend to wear a lot of jewelry. Mostly rings, sometimes bracelets or pendents but always gaudy. They housed the spirits they kept as servants.

"Pleasure meeting you Shade!" he grinned and saluted him with his smoothie, "Eli Monpress. Don't mistake me for a wizard though, I'm but a humble thief."

Opposite of humble technically.