Role

Chapter 5

Decades spent homeless, lurking in graveyards and sewers, scavenging in the
trash and bartering for ingredients in dubious circles, have left a serious
mark on Arstan's mind. His journey from being an escaped evil master's
apprentice, to a mage unable to find acceptance outside (or even within) his
guild, and then reduced to vagrancy, was always fraught with self-loathing.
He felt he was missing a key to his life.

But eventually, he realized that he enjoys the freedom of being his own
person and having no master, more than he could ever crave comforts,
luxuries, fame, dominance over others or academic acclaim among mages.

He is not averse to self-humor, calling himself 'king of refuse piles'.
There's no self-delusion about being powerful, not even once he attains an
undead form. To him, it's not a means to power, it's an escape, a promise of
true freedom. He is now looking forward, eagerly, to it happening.