Death_Angel | Sat 18-Mar-23 10:00 AM |
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#76589, "Phindarn's Role Chapter 6"
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RoleChapter 6 The knife's edge Added Wed Feb 22 08:07:55 2023 at level 35:Time passed, and Phindarn grew to truly love the art of artifice.
He still had not even made his first scroll, but month by month he got closer. His teacher was free with earned praise, and Phindarn grew quite fond of the stuffy old gnome. He'd long since discarded the notion of being a guard, though he still visited the training guards; there was something soothing about engaging in a bit of the old ultraviolence, though he wasn't really sure why. Probably not important. No. Phindarn was going to be the greatest artificer, and that was that. He'd even make his dear old mother a talisman when he could for her birthday, though maybe he'd send it by courier just to be safe.
Then, quite suddenly, his mentor died.
It had not been meant to happen. He'd come down with something brought in by an outsider's teleportation spell, and the transmuters had been sent for to purge his system of whatever disease it was.
They had failed. The Veil had been too thick. Even there best had been unable to muster the power required.
The event had a profound impact upon Phindarn.
It seemed so senseless. So avoidable. All the miracles of modern magic and it had come to nothing in the end.
He kept to his studies, though the room seemed somehow emptier without the old man and his commentary. He kept working upon his penmanship.
But he also began to study the Veil. It had never mattered to him before, really. He was hopeless at magic with and without it.
At first it had been a part of his grieving process, but then he had learned that even magic channeled through devices must still be drawn through the Veil. Suddenly, it had become all the more important.
The more he read, the more he learned. How there were ways to thin and thicken the Veil, but how it always stayed intact.
And in the darkness of his former mentor's home, books scattered across the table and piled upon the floor, Phindarn asked himself a question which would set his feet upon a long, and very dark road indeed:
Could you make something to cut something which cannot be cut?
He could imagine the response from his old mentor even now, though from a time he'd asked a far simpler question.
"You can make anything, my young friend. Artifice is the key which opens all doors."
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[None] Phindarn the Knight of the Apocalypse
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