Role

Chapter 8

Recent years feel great to Arstan. Not too old to party with the Heralds,
yet old enough to have a wealth of past experiences to draw on. Calligraphy,
folk wisdom and study of symbols have replaced herbalism as his new hobby.
With his newfound habit of looking for hidden meaning, stories told by
tale-tellers and written in ancient books of the Lyceum may hold no less
answers to life than tomes of magical knowledge.

As a self-confessed disciple of Rarywey, whose religion is fraught in
mysticism and superstition, he especially values those books and texts that
have more than one layer of understanding.

At the same time, he might be an outlier among her followers, not just by
his guild choice, but by his straightforward thinking. He most values those
mysteries that are knowable, decipherable and explainable. He would never
accept fake air of inscrutability with no underlying substance.

Having dealt with death time and again, manifestations of the Great Cycle
are self-evident to him, but now he must know why it exists, in what other
ways it can manifest, and how knowing it can help lead a satisfying life.