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Battle Mage Ulysse of the Hollow (#7126)

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The Lore of Battle Mage Ulysse of the Hollow

20 years ago, at the crystal hearth, in the spire, where it all went wrong. The sands may shift but in the end outlast.

Ulysse - calm and thoughtful - never thought things would get to this point. Jerret was always the wild one... always looking for the next adventure... never knowing how to keep himself out of places that he shouldn't be. But... he meant well.

Blindsided by his friendship, he ignored sign after sign as the madness crept in and replaced the person he knew with an unrecognizable fiend. If he had stepped in sooner would things be different? By the time he could say I told you so

...he didn't want to.

Yet he understood immediately. The sheer intensity radiating from the power in front of him was enough to drop him to his knees.

It had a gentle heat, inviting you in.

It had an uncanny chill, daring you to try.

It had a power, that you couldn't live without.

Consuming the surrounding desert it perverted the air, snagging the very thread of reality into its manic glory.

The rays of the mid-day dune sun echoed in every color through the erupting geodes. Swimming brilliantly over the sands in true reflection of the misery to come.

"Oh Jerret you old fool...what have you done"

To Be Continued......


While he's had many an adventure, Ulysse never returned to the Dunes after that day. But that was a long time ago...and a story for another time. 

On this particular morning.... Ulysse frantically awoke, his mind racing, completely unable to breathe!

His bed sheet over his head, he fought in vain to surface for air. Bracing for an attack, his world shattered in an instant as the blanket untwisted. Looking down at himself for the first time Ulysse broke down at the sight of a tiny rat body of which he had full control.

"Somebodys cursed me!!!!" 

Oh this was serious...A woodsman...being cursed in his own forest?? Even the deeper magics refuse to enter a battle mages grove. 

Ulysse scrambled around his home, accommodating to his new form of motion. There didn't seem to be anyone home or any signs of a break in...very strange.

This was not going to be easy to fix and the magnitude of what lay before him annoyed Ulysse more than it scared him. He slipped out a crack in the door in the direction of town thinking he knew just who to find.

~The Tavern~ Scene 1 

-Ulysse spastically enters the tavern in search of a friend to help-
-Impy squints and notices a rat scurrying across the street-
-Trollin suddenly appears, mug in hand, running towards the rat ready to smash-


"No wait Trollin!!!! Stop!!!" interjects Magus Wazir, appearing seemingly out of nowhere.
 

 -Wazir hands Trollin a mallet-


"Use this instead!"


-Trollin grabs the huge mallet, ready to crush-
-Impy suddenly grabs the kitchen knife from the sink-


"No Use this!"


-Impy runs to the door and closes it to trap the rat inside-


"Wait, aren't we wizards? Someone cast a spell." Trollin exclaimed


-Impy reaches in his pocket to pull out a scroll containing the spell he has been trying to learn-


“impynadus traptus!!!!”


-Impy turns to notice the spell worked…on Wazir-

The magical cage swirled around Wazir like a force field, but he appeared unharmed.

Trollin's familiar appears on his shoulder, eyes pitch black_ _Trollin's eyes also turn pitch black then return to normal


"What do you mean, a rat?" questioned Trollin.


"REEE RE REEEE!" Ulysse desperately tried to confirm it as true, but no english words escaped.


"Interesting... someone polymorphed him?" Wazir asked intrigued, unalarmed from his current predicament. 


-Impy takes a look through the window and casts another spell-


"impynadus release!" He yells. 


-The cage crumbles around Wazir-


"I hear rumors of an old wizard in town that specializes in alchemy and polymorph spells. We might need to track them down?" piped up Trollin. "Goblin Town is where the rumors started, but going into Goblin Town is no small feat..."

"Goblin Town?! Ahhhh man."

-regardless of his complaint, Impy grabs his familiar, Impy Jr. and starts walking-

~The Tavern~ End Scene 1~

And so the 4 set out, not knowing what lay ahead and who they might meet!




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