Aithiar Hara'ataar the Dweller of the Wilds, Richest Man in Thera

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Chapter 9

And just as the archmage had been made to witness these countless,
bittersweet wonders of the lives of the nine Hara'ataar, he was made to
perceive how much the little fire sprite was to be forever changed due to the
memories that now coursed through its fiery, eternal being, and how it would,
for evermore, be set apart from its siblings because of them--memories it
now held deep within its smoldering essence. And the archmage witnessed how
the lesser fire spirit would, upon its return to the plane of fire, long lost
to it, choose to retain that familiar silhouette of a felar. And he would
hear the eldritch voices of the peers of the little fire sprite, those
numberless other elementals of flame, whose lot it was to remain forever
nameless, featureless, and chromatic, as they turned to their revenant little
kin with a great astonishment and would, time and again, ask of it in their
inscrutable tongue:

" How are you so different from us? Why are you so much more than we are? "

And that now unique little fire sprite, burning brightly with the countless
memories & experiences of its nine mortal lives, which indeed were wholly
beyond the ken of its peers, would blaze ever more illustriously & warmly
upon hearing these astounded queries of its kin, as if channeling their
kind's equivalent of joy and of pride, and it would, always, answer them:

" Because I was Aithiar, eldest of Hara'ataar. "

And as the ancient archmage, the last of that cabal of grand sorcerers who
inadvertently had brought ruin upon the land of Araile in those ages long
past, surveyed those myriad scenes of life, and of living, and of their fond
& eternal remembrance far beyond Thera, all of which had come to pass due to
the stateliness of his knowledge and the greatheartedness of his decision,
the hoary wizard closed his eyes for the final time, and, at long last at
peace with the tragedy of his legacy, would think the ultimate of his great
thoughts:

" What we leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what
is woven into the lives of others. "

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Chapter 8

As the archmage warily pondered the consequence of his decision on the final
occcasion, preparing himself, at long last, for the onset of his own rest
eternal, the august sorcerer would put to use his grand craft for a final
time, and invoke the esoteric arts of clairvoyance & oneiromancy to scry the
uncertain future: to see and hear fragments from the nine lives of the
Hara'ataar, of the moment when the last of the Hara'ataar would finally
perish, and the little fire sprite would be freed from its powerful bindings,
and when it would return to its native plane of existence, changed forever by
the memories of its mortal lives--for good or for ill. And, with a heart
anxious as well as tense, the archmage discerned glimpses of those very
moments, coming to him from a far, distant future...

And the archmage bore witness to many sights and sounds of the Hara'ataar's
nine lives, all lived boldly & eagerly, and overflowing with memories of joy
and of pain, and of blessings and of tragedies. And he saw fragments from the
life of the ninth, and last, Aithiar Hara'ataar, who embodied the culmination
of the Covenant, and who was destined to wander the width & breath of Thera.
And, finally, he saw images of the offspring born to that final of the
Hara'ataar, and glimpsed how these felar cubs were many, a great many indeed,
and how they each were of a perfect health, and that they no longer were
bound by the Covenant as their forebears had been, and that their souls &
spirits resided securely within all of them. And the archmage then witnessed
the last of the Hara'ataar, the final Aithiar Hara'ataar, at long last draw
his closing breath, just as the felar himself had done in his presence all
those centuries ago, and in that moment, he saw the little sprite of fire be
released from the Covenant, and depart from Thera, and start anew its
immortal existence in the elemental plane of fire, from whence it came.

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Chapter 7

So it was, 300 years ago, that the first of the clan Hara'ataar had awakened
within Thera. And truly, it was as the Covenant between the archmage and the
felar had stipulated: nine generations of the felar's paternal line would be
inhabited by the little sprite of fire, which was to be reborn in every
generation and in each new body as the next young Hara'ataar, until such a
time when the minor elemental's bindings would be recalled, and the lesser
fire spirit would endure its final death in its last feline form, and be made
free to return to its immortal existence, deep in the elemental plane of
fire--filled forever with the unique memories & experiences of the nine felar
lives it partook in.

And for nine generations, each of the Hara'ataar would carry the name of
Aithiar Hara'ataar, the son named after the father. For although the bodies
of the Hara'ataar were indeed as father and son to one another, the essence
within each of them would always remain one and the same, and the birth of
the youngest Hara'ataar always would coincide with the death of the eldest
Hara'ataar. And the unwitting fire sprite, lured by the archmage to inhabit
the bodies of this most unusual clan of felar through means of its own
curiosity about Thera, would, for three centuries, be powerfully bound to
serve as the custodian, the enabler, and indeed the savior of the original
felar's lineage.

The propitious archmage understood, however, with a heart grim and heavy,
that the lesser fire elemental would, inevitably, supersede the spirits of
the felar's eight descendants to come, as it had superseded the spirit of the
felar himself, at the onset of the Covenant. Nevertheless, the archmage
equally saw how, well and truly, none of the felar's eight descendants, and
indeed all those who were to follow in their own wake, could have seen the
light of existence if not for his daring intervention. And, likewise, the
archmage knew that the minor sprite of fire, enticed by him to inhabit the
nine bodies of the Hara'ataar, could not have been imparted with the
experiences of these mortal lives, seen and felt first-hand in the flesh,
memories that truly were unique among its kind, without having been bound by
the Covenant.

Thus, within the final analysis, and withal the great sacrifices asked of the
felar's eight descendants, of the little fire spirit, and indeed of the
archmage's own ease of conscience, the venerable wizard would nonetheless
deem his actions to be a boon to all three who were first involved in the
Convenant, and more so, to all those whose lives would, in the far future, be
made possible because of it--in defiance of all the odds that had favored the
exclusion of their existences, yet to come.

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Chapter 6

Completing his grand and preternatural task, and sealing for evermore the
Covenant he had made with the felar, the archmage finally summoned forth a
lesser elemental spirit to inhabit the revivified & uplifted vessel of the
felar. Using the arts of Conjuration, the archmage enticed a minor sprite of
fire, a being native to the elemental planes of conflagration, of which he
knew it had previously displayed a curiosity about Thera, to enter the mortal
realm of its own volition. And, using unconventional and developmental
techniques of his own design, he powerfully bound the small fire sprite to
the felar's altered & invigorated frame, to serve as the body's renewed
essence, and its new spirit, and its new soul. The archmage would labor long,
hard, and passionately to complete the intricate, heterodox binding
procedure...

...and he indeed was successful.

In a state neither truly alive nor dead, the body of the felar had been
revitalized & repurposed as a vigorous, adolescent alpha male, brimming with
great health, resilience, and fecundity--an exemplar of Transmutational
craftsmanship to rival the very works of the high magisters of Veran itself.
And as the little sprite of fire, coaxed into entering the Theran realm
through its own inquisitive disposition, now became powerfully bound to the
still corporeal form that awaited it, this new body, that new form of
magickal life, which emerged from what once had been the felar, as if a
phoenix arising from the ashes, would once again draw its breath deeply and
open wide its eyes.

And a great lust for life, and yet more life, was burning inside them.

For this proved to be the true nature of the Covenant which had been struck
between the archmage and the felar: a transcendental, elemental rebirth of
the felar's corporeal form, which henceforth would be inhabited by this
lesser fire spirit, and which, in turn, would act as the uplifted vessel's
renewed essence, and as the redeemer of the felar's paternal lineage--as the
archmage had pledged and promised to the felar.

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Chapter 5

Moved by this inference, and contemplating deeply the significance of the
strange course of events that was now unfolding in his presence, the archmage
decreed that the tragic fate of the felar's seemingly doomed lineage should
only be such, if one were to limit one's self to conventional methods &
procedures in the schools of Thera's magicks. For the archmage, who was wise,
ancient, and cunning, as well as benevolent, knew of more than one way to yet
honor his part in the fateful Covenant he had struck with the dying felar.
And, acting in the knowledge that the felar himself no longer could, or
should, be saved, for such interventions would stray dangerously close to the
realm of Necromancy, the grand magician took to an impromptu--a daring,
refulgent recourse.

No longer seeking to restore or extend the current felar, the puissant
sorcerer would instead initiate a rare, arduous procedure derived from the
phenomenon of demielemental transcendence. And this entailed the cleansing
and resuscitation of the natural processes of the felar's body, to be
accomplished through its entanglement with a wellspring of elemental energies
from beyond Thera's confines. This mighty feat was, in turn, to be achieved
by weaving the felar's vessel together with a whole new essence, or soul, or
spirit. The archmage thus would lay the doomed felar to rest, peacefully &
painlessly, and then solemnly waited by his side, for the precise moment in
which the felar's body & spirit would no longer be joined as one.

And as the moment occurred, and the felar's body lay before him without an
essence, yet containing still many of its fleeting life's energies, the
archmage would feverishly invoke his powerful magicks against time's mighty
onslaught, and use his august knowledge of Vivimancy & Transmutation to
revitalize & enhance significantly the condition of the felar's lingering,
still warm vessel. Repurposing the body of the felar, whose spirit he quietly
and with dignity had laid to its eternal rest, the archmage began his labor
to reshape the felar's corporeal form into a youthful, vigorous, and virile
state of existence--channeling & enhancing masterfully its rejuvenescent
natural proccesses, while keeping the paternal lineage of the felar, still
contained within, carefully intact.

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Chapter 4

Among the battleragers, it is commonly said, magicks are deemed a taint most
corruptive, the embracement of which, inevitably, leads to debasement &
enfeeblement, both in body and in spirit, and of all those who, in their
folly & hubris, had sought to wield it. And this is held as an axiom by those
who are battle, regardless of whether a magician's disposition is toward
good, or towards evil. Thus, even the most benevolent of sorcerers, masters
of their craft, strong of will, and righteous in their hearts, are distrusted
vociferously as being wily and trickster individuals, prone to bewitching,
and who, to varying degrees, will always seek to beguile, regardless of how
noble their intentions appear.

And it is said that in many a shibboleth, a seed of truth can be found.

For the ancient archmage, although venerable, and profoundly knowledgeable in
all the conventional schools of Theran magicks, would swiftly come to realize
that the body of the elderly, destitute felar, with whom he had made the
Covenant in search of atonement for the sins of his predecessors in the land
of Araile, already had festered within due to many and grave an illness, and
even now it deteriorated rapidly, well beyond what even the archmage's fabled
proficiency in the arts of Vivimancy & Transmutation could hope to mend. And
the archmage saw that the expiration of this lone felar loomed large, very
large indeed, and was seemingly unavoidable, and he knew now that the felar
had struck down the fearsome beast of prey with the last of its strength.

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Chapter 3

The final descendant of the felar which the Covenant speaks of is Aithiar.
The seventh generation of the felar's magical offspring, in whom the workings
of the archmage have manifested at their greatest potency, Aithiar found
himself free to wander the world, to close the circle, and at long last
restore his lineage to normal. And so it was. At the age of seventeen,
Aithiar had wandered well outside the confines of his ancestral desert home,
driven by an insatiable wanderlust and eagerness for the experiences and
memories which a life lived boldly had to offer - the fruits of the magical
inner fire the archmage had ignited within his family line. And in that time,
he had been with numerous mates, each unknowingly drawn to him by the unique
potency of his altered lineage, and many of whom had already borne him
healthy, strong, and perfectly normal cubs.

The life journey of Aithiar throughout Thera is the closing chapter in this
tale of the Covenant between the felar and the archmage, who, in his final
act of atonement, had restored life and hope to a lineage that, at one time,
had become as barren and bereft of hope as the desert of Araile had always
seemed to be.

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Chapter 2

Keenly aware the Felar were born of magicks, the archmage invoked the full
extent of his knowledge and power to bestow upon this felar new hope, and a
fresh opportunity at life, rather than to deprive others of them, as his
forebears inadvertently had done so long ago. The sorcerer struck a Convenant
with the felar, altering him yet further to extend his natural lifespan,
restoring the vigor and fertility of the felar's most youthful days, and
imbuing him with a great magical affinity for the warmth of fire, whether
that warmth be physical, emotional or spiritual in nature, an affinity well
beyond what most natural life could hope to experience.

Where such powerful magicks had once led to depriving others of their hopes,
lives and futures, the archmage had, in the twilight of his own existence,
used that knowledge to forge hope anew, and to offer a renewed chance at life
to the felar. His long sense of guilt and responsibility eased by his
merciful act, the archmage passed away not months after this deed, being, at
long last, more at peace with his tragic legacy.

Yet, the Covenant stipulated that not only the felar himself, but also his
offspring down to the sixth generation would not be able to leave Araile's
crystalline sands, lest the magic to which they now owed their unique
longevity, fecundity and resilience would falter, and much to their
detriment. It was only in the seventh generation that the magicks of the
archmage would finally manifest themselves at the height of their potency,
and the bloodline of the felar would no longer be bound to the sands of the
Araile desert, from which their magically altered lineage drew such great
vigor, tenacity, and fertility.

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Chapter 1

Three hundred years ago, deep within the desert of Araile, an eldery and
barren felar struck at a fearsome beast of prey, and in so doing diverted its
attention from a seemingly defenseless human hermit. Unbeknowest to the
felar, this hermit was never in danger from the beast, for he was the last of
a lineage of puissant sorcerers who had once been responsible for the
formation of the desert, in which they both now dwelled.

This ancient archmage was struck with a sense of amity toward the felar. But,
it was not due to the felar's selfless bravery, nor because of the pity the
sorcerer felt when gazing at this lone, destitute felar, who was already
bereft of anything to live for other than meaningless, daily acts of
survival, while slowly whithering away from old age and a growing infirmity.
Benevolent at heart, the venerable magician long had been burdened with
notions of responsibility and guilt over what his forebears, in their hubris,
once wrought in the lands of Araile. And in his meeting with the felar, the
archmage saw a strange act of providence - an unexpected yet hoped for
opportunity for a modicum of atonement.

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