Role

Chapter 3

Some hunt mages because they've stolen a power of the gods.

Some despise magic because their god commands it. Thror is one such god. He
is a my god.

But ultimately, it is vengeance that motivates me. All mages are guilty. They
will pay for what was done by their kind in the past. They will suffer a
hardship at my paws for avoiding the toil of honest Therans. And they will
pay for what they will try to do in the future.

Some mages have good intentions and seemingly act with benevolence. Others
are foul sorcerers and wield a slaver's whip. Intentions matter little. The
carrot and the stick are both ways to enslave. Dull claws, dimmed mind and a
broken back is the result. The gift of the magi has never and will never
bring us anything but pain.

Generations of pain, impossible without magic, we suffered. We bear a scar of
this deep within our soul. We are free, but that is all. Nothing has been
done to attone, no reparations made.

There is a debt upon the ledger of history.

Magic puts them in the red.

I collect the debt of mages.

Blood is the only payment I accept.