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Drain Self Cost: Resilience Learnable: Learnable at Orbit 20 Effects: When evoked and an element is chosen, this will add one point of that element to a targeted avatar. Damage: N/A Duration: N/A History: It was a time, long long ago, when items
were scarce. A time when, although you could find them you were not always able
to secure them into your backpack. As there were fewer weapons to find it became
necessary to to evoke arts, especially in order to collapse DM's and protect the
city from chaos. Practicing arts took longer, requiring patience and frequent
meditation. Theofanes, an elder Soulmaster and inventor, was working on a way to
solve the dilemma. Through the use of his newly acquired art, forge talisman, he
attempted to combine different arts, but without success. Theofanes practiced this with his wife
until she was no longer able to progress further in her arts. He then taught her
this art and she, in turn, helped Theofanes advance until he reached optimum in
all his arts. They both set out to teach as many dreamers as possible so that
they too could help others to grow stronger in order to defend against the DM's
and protect the city. Theofanes loved his wife more than life
itself. He was proud of her and her efforts to train others to help the city.
They loved to spend time together, go for walks in the evening, watch the sun go
down. One evening while he and his wife were out for their evening walk they
were suddenly, and without warning, ambushed by the Dark Mare, Molog. Theofanes
was mortally wounded and paralyzed from the attack, unable to move, unable to
defend himself and his beautiful wife. He watched in horror as his lovely wife
was brutally torn to pieces by Molog. Molog roared with laughter as he
disappeared into the night. But alas, when Theofanes regained movement, it was
too late. He stared at his wife, now glowing in the evening darkness, a
beautiful soulsphere. She spoke to him of a feeling of dismay, a foreboding
sensation that she was about to be lifted from the dream forever. In a desperate attempt to bring her back he evoked restore on her, but to his dismay the art failed over and over again. She was slipping away. He could see her fading, the light dispersing into the moonlight. Suddenly, without thinking, just reacting, he evoked the art of Drain Self, not realizing what he was doing, not caring if it would take his own life But, to his wonder and amazement, she materialized before him, appearing unharmed. She had been so traumatized she did not remember what had happened to her. He held her in his arms, not wanting to ever let go as she looked into his eyes, telling him she loved him, talking to him of this beautiful night among the stars. He never had the heart to tell her what had happened, and never did. |
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