There was a time when Brutus was just a boy with no particularly distinguishing features. His family found the ease with which he was distracted -- the quickness with which he would become entranced by little details in the natural world around him -- to be a frustrating drain on their ability to provide for each other. But one night while out on the Moors with his mother and father and the rest of their clan, Brutus stayed behind at the fire after everyone else had gone in to sleep. When his family woke up the next morning, he tried to tell them of what he had seen in the fire when he was alone. It quickly became clear that he would not be able to explain it to them, at least in any manner that matched his strange experience. After that evening, though, Brutus began to see patterns in the natural world on the paths that his family traveled. He would throw a stick into the dirt ahead of him -- often just for play -- and when it landed he could make out lines pointing in directions that were at first mysterious, but that slowly came to make more sense over time. It was only several years later that Brutus was visited by a Figure who began to help him make sense of what he had seen in the fire that night and why it was that he saw patterns that no one else could spy. What he had in him were the powers of a Geomancer. Some of them came to him unbidden. Others could only be harnessed with time and the proper lessons. The Figure who visited him was hard to describe, even to himself. The Figure was dark and light at the same time, and had no shape, but took up space. After enough visitations, Brutus followed the Figure and began to understand the gifts he had been given. It took much longer for his family to understand the same. Once they did, they no longer looked at Brutus askance, but instead looked at him in wonder, waiting for him to find the next patterns that would guide them on their journeys and provide endless bounty, as well as danger and the opportunity for greatness.

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