Role

Chapter 4

As the years passed for young little Tharliss, his dedication to the
teachings of his father grew and blossomed into an obsession. For when he was
not with his father, he could be found roaming the plains and forest studying
the flora and fauna within it. Always driven to find new herbs and plants
that could be used in medicinal ways, there was nothing he was not willing to
try. Any time a rumor of a new illness, disease or plague would sprout up,
Tharliss would always beg his father for them to go so that they could study
it. Amused by such, he father would often relent and they would travel to
other villages and cities in which Tharliss would be in awe.

To see these places and know there were so much untapped knowledge buried
within books that he had never seen. Though as he would find time to read
them, he would often be disappointed in what they contained as they were
basic and rudimentary in nature. They often lacked true insight and would
give little on practical uses of herbs and natural medicine. Instead often
recommending the use of clerics to solve the issues which may affect someone.
Or in worse cases they would suggest magical elixirs and tonics to pollute
the body in an attempt to rid it of some common ailment which was natural.

In his younger years Tharliss would not give much thought to this, but as he
grew his eyes would be opened to a possible cause for many of these
infections and mutations found within the body. Magic.