Solo The Chaon Wizard.

[Annalisa Marin]

89th of Summer, 513 AV

Anna sat once more one at her table with a large piece of parchment before her and ink at the ready. Her brush was already in hand and ready for use, the wizard's mind whirling in motion with the efficiency of an oiled machine. She knew what it was she wanted to create, it was the actual process of making it that she was unsure of. This would be her most complex creation to date, it had the potential to utterly back fire on her if she went about this wrong. Being honest with herself, Anna felt equally excited and fearful for the experiment.

She had created simple scrolls a number of times, however she had been wanting to test the limits of her Glyphing for a long time now. Reimancy was very different than a world magic like Glyphing, in that the limits were clearly defined different uses were needed to be explored in order to reach the extent of those limits. Personal magic had limitations but they were more dependent on the spiritual strength of the wizard in question. Glyphing was also just as important as Voiding or Reimancy, perhaps even more so.

The young wizard dipped her brush in ink and began to start with the focus, making it near the bottom of the page while still leave plenty of room for the barrier Glyphs. Anna easily drew the focus, by this point her speed was certainly great. Her brushstrokes were confident and controlled, she was less focused on getting it just right because muscle memory had already ensured that it would indeed be accurate. Her time for completion was just over for chimes for a full focus. Her grey eyes briefly glanced over it for imperfections.

She could not afford a single mistake here, not if she wanted this to turn out correctly. What she was doing at this point was merely applying what she already knew to be true and taking it a step further. However, it would also signal a growth in her abilities, one that marked success as a wizard. Anna had learned much and this experiment would stand as a testament to the experience.

The wizard moved on to the barrier glyphs, her brushwork becoming much more intricate a small in scale as she encircled the focus in a barrier slowly. Her runes had evolved to possess a strange form of grace to the rigid geometric designs. This represented an increase in the confidence in her own work and its flow. By no means was it completely perfect and the barrier still took some time to get down, however her comfort with it was obvious.

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The barrier was finished in its due time, care and patience were the keys to success here. Instead of adding a trigger however, Anna instead started on another focus glyph above the freshly drawn barrier and slightly to the right. She was going to create three for the purposes of this experiment, three of each thing in order for what she had in mind to work. The creation was really deceptively, it was just more time consuming to create three of each component for a single scroll. How it would actually hold up in a trial was going to be the interesting part. In theory, there was no reason why this shouldn't work.

The focus was finished easy enough once more and the barrier was up next, Anna dipping her brush in ink and quickly starting on the smaller runes that made up her next barrier. Her hunched over position was uncomfortable, but compared to her stiffness when she had initiated herself into Voiding it was nothing terrible really. Then again, few things came close to having to sit in the same position for three straight days in the darkness with little food or water.

Anna still had some worries as to if this would work, really the question was whether she should add three separate triggers or one to bind them all. She wondered if the latter was even possible within the laws of glyphing, there was no reason it shouldn't be but still she had her concerns. It was mostly due to the fact that she had never attempted anything like this before in her life.

The former option also presented with it some challenges, namely the scroll disintegrating after use. It one trigger was activated would the scroll not crumble to dust after the magic in one focus was used? Or would the glyph merely disappear? In the former case, which she believed to be most likely, then the scroll could easily backfire and blow up in the face of the one using it. Not exactly a good thing.

Anna quickly finished the barrier, glancing over it for errors and correcting them as she saw them. This was a highly delicate process, she needed to be absolutely sure of her course of action before acting. The trigger was the important point here, the other components were easily enough used. Idly she considered the possibility of using pathway runes to bind the three sigils together, focusing them into a focus for release at the center. It seemed like valid idea to her at this point. The woman considered it for a moment before casting it out of her mind, reminding herself that the parchment size could only support so much.

Pathway runes were not something she wanted to mix into scroll creation just yet, her comfort was not quite so much as to allow that much ambition. Binding three different sigils together was one thing, adding in a rune that's potential was still unknown to her was another. Her own abilities were formidable but not so much as to allow for that much innovation.

[Annalisa Marin]

As Anna started on the last focus, making this one to the right of the one she had just drawn, she allowed her mind to wander slightly. Her conviction in her path had returned to her, she knew that the path she walked was the one that was right for her. Anna had been nothing before using magic, she had been common and unassuming. Now, at the mere age of twenty one years she had accomplished great things with magic. Her grasp over magic and its concepts was prodigal, the speed at which she had advanced was nearly unheard of. Concepts that took a great deal of time to properly understand came rather easily to her. Her life was now bound in magic, it would be accurate to call it her life.

Magic was her life. It gave her reason to strive and achieve, it was the thing that she had the most success in. It was so very wrapped up in who she was and what she wanted to become, a master with no equal. One who was second only to a god when compared to mortals, but more than that she wanted power I order to gain understanding. So much of the universe was beyond the comprehension of most mortals, the idea that one person was so vastly insignificant never crossed the though of most people, but it did for her.

Anna quickly finished the focus and moved onto the barrier, her thoughts returning to the task at hand for the moment. There was no doubt her mind would wander again tonight, but now was not the time fore that. The wizard carefully drew each rune patiently, the small runes encircling the focus. They danced before her vision and she felt her shoulders ache slightly as she continued to hunch over the parchment. This was tiresome and repetitive, but if the outcome was what she expected and hoped it would be then the whole thing was worth it.

The wizard finished the last barrier and allowed herself to lean back in her chair, stretching her arms high with a grateful sigh. Her work was not yet finished, but it was certainly looking feeling good to actually be making progress here. The tiresome part was out of the way, now came the decision making. It was either going to have to be bound to one trigger, or to three separate triggers.

Anna thought for a moment, going back over the merits of each one in her mind. Finally after some deliberation the wizard opted for binding them all to one single trigger at the very center of the scroll. Dipping her brush once more, Anna started connecting the sigils to the center were she drew the runes for the trigger.

The wizard opted for a phrase, one she was well acquainted with by this point. "All is the Void." It seemed good enough.

With that done, Anna started on her instructions in common for whoever would be using this scroll. She started it with the same warning she always put on it.

This scroll contains a fair bit a fire reimancy, as such exercise extreme caution in handling it. Tampering with the Glyph could release it, so handle it delicately, in a scrollcase preferable before using it. Aim it at the intended target when in use. NEVER point it at yourself. Only say the trigger word when you are ready to release the magic, the key phrase is 'all is the Void'.

The wizard was pleased that she got that out of the way, finally she could stand on her own petching feet. As Anna stood she stretched high with a long and drawn out groan. Now came the tricky part, getting the firebolts into each focus.

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Anna loosened up her neck a little bit, the next part was indeed going to be a fair bit tricky. Firebolts were not that difficult to cast really, at least not for her. However three in succession was going to be taxing, not dangerous in terms of overgiving but she was definitely going to need to lay down after it. This was assuming the whole thing didn't blow up in her face at the end. If it did not, then this might prove an excellent gift for the Wave Guard, a more advanced scroll for them to play around with.

The wizard brought her hands out before her, starting a low chant in Nader Carnoch. Res pooled in both of her hands, quickly sheathing them in translucent liquid. The urge was just a dull buzz in the back of her skull at this point, nothing to really be overly concerned about. She was not going to break down like she had a month ago, that had been more than a little unsettling but she was more careful now. She knew the risks and was very careful not to accidently fall into that trap now.

Anna will her res to form into a ball of translucent liquid before her, quickly willing the outer layer of it to ignite. The flames licked at her palms slightly as she moved the ball of flame closer to the scroll, transmuting the inner layers slowly. The ball hit the bottom most glyph and was quickly absorbed into it, vanishing completely. The scroll was now primed.

The true test was yet to come, she knew this as she generated another ball of translucent liquid in the air before her. Anna felt in her gut that this would indeed work, everything logical pointed towards that being that case. Still there was still some doubt in her mind as she focused on transmuting the res to flame once more. If she was wrong then this could end very badly.

Anna slowly lowered the next ball of res into the next empty sigil, holding a breath in as she transmuted the inner layers slowly. A sigh of relief escaped her lips as the fire was safely absorbed by the glyph, her face becoming a mask of triumph at the sight. It had accepted the fire and still seemed intact, just one more ant the whole thing would be completely.

Again and for the last time this night, Anna drew upon her res, the drain on he Djed becoming noticeable. The res formed a ball before her and she willed it to ignite before lowering it into the last empty sigil. Then it happened, the flames caught the edges of the scroll. Time seemed to slow down in that moment, the flames caught and her own eyes slowly widened as they processed this information to her brain.

Anna quickly flung herself back onto the floor just as the scroll ignited and released the magic with in it, engulfing her table in an intense blaze.

[Annalisa Marin]

Anna already knew as soon as she looked at the table that the situation was extremely bad. First of all, Anna's house lacked windows of any kind, due to her like of privacy. This meant that the smoke was likely to be chokingly bad and that the air was going to get thin fast. Secondly, if she did not contain the fire fast then the rest of what she owned was going to go as well. Her bed, chair, indeed her whole house. It was a good thing that Zeltivan cottages were of good solid stone.

The wizard was glad that her home was relatively isolated in regards to neighbors, hopefully she could get this under control before anyone took notice of anything odd. She got to her feet and quickly started up coughed out incantations in Nader Carnoch. Res formed in her hands and the urge surged in her mind as this heat of the moment casting took place. Anna formed more and more res, ignoring the waves of fatigue that hit her. She quickly formed five larger balls of res and moved them towards the flames.

The heat was becoming nearly unbearable and she was having trouble retaining control of the res. Still she pressed on, the urgency of the situation outweighing the risk.

Anna attracted the flames from the tables in small bursts, much like she had done with a tree she had ignited in the Wilds a few months back. The flames raged against her willed commands but Anna was not one to be denied. Small flames danced away from the main blaze, flaring brightly in the air for a few moments before fizzling out. This was an extremely difficult process and required her complete and utter concentration throughout.

The wizard gritted her teeth as she attempted to maintain control over the res as the flames slowly began to die out. The process itself was very taxing as the force of attraction, while less costly in terms of res expenditure it still required Djed to both control the floating res and to add attractive forces to them. Needless to say she could feel the drain working away at her, just as the urge surged viciously in her brain and chipped away at her resolve.

However she pressed ever forward, moving her hands much like a conductor directing a symphony. Certainly the flames possessed an odd chaotic beauty in the way they danced and flickered brightly, their very existence fueled by destruction. The flames began to die as she successfully contained them, still choking out verses in the ancient tongue.

Her were tearing up as the smoke continued to envelop her in its sickening embrace. The substance burned at her throat, making her incantations much more difficult. Anna refused to be bested however, she was not going to be remembered as the wizard whose experiments killed her. She was a Chaon, not some overly confident hedge wizard.

The fire became smaller and smaller, eating away at the remains of the table as she sucked away at the flames with her res. The strain was quickly reaching it peak, if this carried on for much longer than she was running the risk of overgiving. She was not going to do that again, one experience had been enough. Anna would succeed here, there was not alternative.

Finally, the last of the flames flickered out just as the devastated table collapsed under its own weight. It was done.

Unable to take the smoke much longer Anna burst out the door and into the street, coughing and sputtering.

She noted a confused looking couple looking at her quizzically as they passed by and Anna searched for a credible excuse.

"Bad *cough* cooking exercise, nothing to *cough* worry about." She croaked, mentally berating herself for such a stupid excuse.

The couple seemed to take that with bewildered looks at each other and were off into the night. Anna slumped down against her house as the smoke aired out of her home, tired and extremely displeased with herself. Not only was her experiment an utter failure but she had undoubtedly lost her table, and her home was likely to smell of burning wood and parchment for weeks. She felt extremely tired due to the unexpected casting of course, but that could be remedied easily enough. Anna quickly looked around to ensure no one was anywhere near her and willed and remaining res to return to her. The wizard let out a relieved sigh as her weariness lessened, it was certainly not a permanent fix but she did indeed feel much better.

The woman stayed out there for a few chimes, letting the smoke escape her house before slowly getting up. Her head was throbbing, sweat poured over her body, and the taste of iron was on her lips but at least it she had not overgiven. A brief glance was all that was necessary to note that her table and anything that had been on it was now completely unsalvageable. Fantastic.

[Annalisa Marin]

Anna closed the door behind her with a disgusted sigh, this was one of the worse days of the summer. She was going to have to shell out some serious money to get everything replaced as well as to ensure this never happened again. Luckily Fall was nearly upon Zeltiva and with it hopefully would come new and better opportunities for her. At least she hoped so.

The air of her house smelled of burnt parchment and wood as she had expected, luckily the damages were only isolated to the table and its contents. Her bed was welcoming her but first she had some business to attend before getting much needed rest for her eyes. Anna knelt before her bed and bowed her head, her hands in her lap.

"Rhysol, lord of chaos and father to all traitors, grant me the insight I need to further your goals. Grant me the power to cause destruction in your name and spread chaos into the realms of all men. I am you servant now and until I draw my last breath. I am your instrument, broken and forged anew by your power." Anna intoned.

It was her nightly prayer of thanks, a renewal of her oath to the God of Lies. Anna owed him much, his agenda was still very much in her mind however, actually furthering it in Zeltiva was proving to be rather difficult. Still, she would not have been marked by his blood if he had not seen something in her that showed promise. So she would continue to use his gift to her best abilities.

The woman finally allowed herself to climb into her bed, wrinkling her nose at the new smell of her home. Gods, she would definitely need to ensure her next batch of furniture was fire proof. Or perhaps if she had enough money she could finally try for that personal lab she had been wanting for some time. Though, her money was going to be lightened a little by this little catastrophe. Such were lessons of life, cruel and hard lessons they were indeed.

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Skills

+ Drawing - 2
+ Glyphing - 1
+ Philosophy - 1
+ Reimancy - 2

Lores

+ Pathway Runes will complicate things
+ Magic is my life
+ Burning a table with scrolls

Other:

Anna will have a bad cough for the next 30 days from the smoke

Notes

Hehe. Poor Anna

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