Month: April 2019

I am called to Val Maxis’s study that evening after supper. I have been at the tower for nearly a year. The war has been raging through Elysium while I have spent my days studying in safety. Val Maxis’s tower has countless wards and protections cast on it so, even without guards, there is no chance that the orcs could… Read more →

The study of magic is not for the frail or meek. I am learning a great deal as apprentice to Val Maxis and there is a great deal more to master. Because I had not received any formal training before, I did not know that the arcanum is comprised of five elements which make up the world: wind, earth, water,… Read more →

All my possessions now accounted for, I am faced with the decision of what to do next. Stay here? Hardly. This place is a prison to my ambition. I would be unworthy of Ner Ngal’s favor if I stayed here; to live out my days a tamed wolf among sheep. Head west to Plor and set my eyes on a… Read more →

He is considering taking me as an apprentice? This may be precisely the break I need to strike out on my god-given path in earnest, once again. My mind alights with imaginings of his great library and I envision myself bursting with knowledge and power. If this conversation is to be my interview, then it behooves me to set some… Read more →

The soldiers are singing drinking songs and dancing around the fire. From where I am sitting they remind me of my goblin tribe. What a strange couple of years that had been. A figure, silhouetted by the bonfires, toddles toward us with a bounce in his step. The ornate staff identifies him as Val Maxis from quite a ways off.… Read more →