>>5846486Your name is Ezreal Van Houtzmann, born Ezreal Mious, and better known to your dearest friends as ‘Tips’. You had come from your mother’s country in the Sylvan lands of the elven race to Hawksong, birthplace of your father, to study magic in the prestigious Mages’ Tower of Hawksong. In your years here—almost half your thirty-five years, now—you had achieved truly tremendous things.
You had found friends, and become more comfortable with the stigma of your mixed blood.
You had met your father, Rudolfo Van Houtzmann, and adventured with him into the Goblin Wastes.
You had studied the traditions of the True Fey and of the Neme-Ashurati, and learned some of their sacred secrets.
You had mastered The Alchemy of Life, becoming a truly great manipulator of flesh and blood, to heal and to transform, and even developed applications never before seen.
You had uncovered conspiracies of Hawksong’s dark and troubled past, including that of the Tower’s own Archmage and her enigmatic adoptive daughter. You had become Mage Apprentice to the one, and lover to the other…
And then, eager to hide your holy mysteries from the Archmage and to mend your lover, to heal all Hawksong and its people of the plague and restore normalcy to this troubled world, you had allowed Izirina Henzler to trick you, to lead you into the beyond and into her fantasy of abandoning her afflicted body, transfiguring her tainted soul, and leaving her history, her biology, and this whole world behind.
