Marquise Dragma's school of magic (private rp)

[Pegu]

Kirion sheepishly follows the group, although he is somewhat uplifted by the knowledge he might actually receive some form of tutelage at last.

[HellEye]

As I open the library doors an old lion appears, greeting us with a wave of his paw.
"welcome to the library, I'm Roland Goldmane, the librarian. I've heard what books you're looking for, I have some prepared here" he shows a pile of books on his desk next to the door.
"thank you sir, we'll get to reading right away" I look through the books and pick up some of them that seem to have something to do with wild magic. There are two of them left, "on black magic" and "the seventh element".

[Tina]

I begin to read the books thoroughly not wanting to miss a single detail. A lot of what the books talk about is how shadow magic work a and while there are plenty of evil wizards that practice it, it turns out the strongest servants of the Darkness are those who have "blessed" by the Darkness itself. Most of these servants are sorcerers who don't live ong as either they lose control of their powers or are slain by a hero of light.

However there is a legend that comes up in one of the books called "The Demi-gods of the Darkness". The legend tells of two twin brothers who had been visited by the Darkness while they were still in their mothers womb. The twins were the sons of a powerful light wizard who had long been fighting off the spawns of Darkness in her home village and the Darkness found the best way to defeat her, was to go after her unborn children. The children had killed their mother upon birth  and we're raised by their father, however they both radiated powerful shadow magic. To keep their powers under control the Father had forged a white orb of pure light magic to absorb their powers whenever they lost control.

The legend cuts out after that as the book was really old and many of the pages after that were indecipherable.

[Pegu]

Kirion is nearby flipping through a book on sorcery concepts, occasionally looking up to see what's going on around him.

[HellEye]

While Lenna reads about the Darkness I look through the wild magic books, learning everything I can to help Kirion stay safe when another accident occurs. After reading one book and quickly scanning through two others I look up: "okay, I know some stuff now, have you learned anything?"

(I love that story)

[Tina]

The book on sorcerers described them as natural caster who rarely needed to practice in order to learn magic. Their were multiple types of sorcerers that went beyond even the seven elements of magic as there magic was based on their heritage. They could be gaining powers because they are related to a powerful Dragon, a master of undead like a Lich or vampire or multiple other reasons. Sorcerers could show their powers at any point in their life time and is normally triggered by some sort of event.

(That was to explain what Kirin was reading.)

"There seems to be a legend about two brothers who gained their shadow powers before they were even born because they were visited by the Darkness. Even mentions my orb but this book could be better kept." I say.

[HellEye]

"so your orb isn't a source... Or it is one, but not forged by nature. It's interesting. I'll ask Roland if he has something more on that topic, maybe he missed it looking for books about Darkness and not light.

Since Kirion mentioned they called him a wild mage I looked around the books for that term. It says a wild sorcerer isn't always as fluelent in magic, since he didn't get it through a heritage but rather literary absorbed it from the environment. That means you must've been in some kind of a place of power occupied by a magical being that pushed the magic into you. I'll read more during the night, this is the most I could find for now"

[Pegu]

Kirion speaks up after hearing HellEye talk about where it's obtained.


"I know where I got it... I was stupid. It could have killed me" he sighs before he continues "I touched a Ley Line."


He takes another breath, thinking back to the day.

[HellEye]

"what's a Ley Line?" I ask confused.

[Pegu]

Kirion looks up surprised.


"After all the knowledge stored away in this college, I would have thought you'd know." he thinks for a moment "A ley line is like a flowing river of pure arcane energy. The scribes back home told me that they criss-cross the whole world."


He scratches behind an ear a little before continuing.


"They're usually so deep below the ground it would take a great effort to dig to one. But..." he stops, but knows he's in good company "The Great Tree from which my species come from... it's roots tap into a ley line that has come up from the depths."


He stammers a little near the end.


"B-But yes, I ended up touching it in a cavern below the Tree"

[Tina]

(I am surprised you guys know what those are o-o)

[HellEye]

"I really didn't hear of that. I wasn't really listening too much on the theoretical lessons... Don't tell anyone here though" I give a big smile and continue " it makes a lot of sense now. That amount of power flowing through one place could easily enter you. You'd be like a dry sponge dropped into the river."

(I didn't )

[Pegu]

(Ley lines have been in other stuff, I adapted them to suit my species. Hope that's not a problem  )

[Tina]

(Its fine because it is really close to what I was going to say...with the addition of a tree.)

[HellEye]

"I'll get some books from Roland then!" I say as I get up and go towards the entrance and his desk, talk with him for some time, wait around for a bit and then come back with two books.
"this one should have a bunch of stuff about these Ley Lines. And this one supposedly has some information about the light mage that created the orb" I give the Ley line book to Kirion, the light mage one to Lenna and start thinking who should I join.