Role

Chapter 7

With even changing how he approached those of the city, Tharliss could not
find any willing to participate in his studies or experiments. Did they not
understand that this could change how medicine was viewed within Thera? Did
they not understand that in such research that they could help exterminate a
potential plague which was quietly destroying so many?

Well then, if they did not wish to aid in the manner in which he needed then
he would revert to treating them like wild infected beast. And one thing that
he had learned in his youth and time in Evermoon Hollow was how to hunt and
put down infected beast. Yet to do such in the confines of the city, well
that would only cause panic and make it harder on obtaining research. So
Tharliss began to plan, lure and hunt those infected by magic into the
wilderness where he could remove them from the populous. There he could
ethically euthanize them and ease their suffering, for clearly their brain
and body was being rotten away by the effects of magic. And once such was
done, Tharliss could take his time in his autopsy of the subject. Perhaps he
could find what within the body made them drawn to magic and what made them
so vulnerable.

Tharliss believed that there was something within those touched by magic
which made them different from the rest of the populous. Else there would be
a food of magic within society and the weak would have been filtered out
leaving only a hybrid of a magical creature. So since such had not happened,
it was clear that mages were abnormal and aberrations to the populous and it
was Tharliss mission to find out what made them such.