>>5828525Izirina shook her head, pursing her lips and beckoning for you to follow her down the hill. You did as she indicated, and as you travel back to Hawksong, she explained herself, and her intentions:
“I’ve been researching travel between planes,” she said. “Specifically, the elemental planes. The Heavenly Realms and the Hells are all… Well, full of gods, and demons, and that sort of thing, and souls. But the elemental planes… Well, there aren’t any gods there, or spirits, or mortals, or any sort of authority!”
“How do we know for sure?” you wondered aloud. “Nobody’s every been there because, well…”
“We’d die,” Izirina finishes, eyes flashing. “But that really depends. The Elemental Plane of Earth and Water are quite close to ours, aren’t they? I mean, at least in that they have solid or liquid matter, respectively. Not matter EXACTLY like our native earth and water, but analogous enough! And the planes… They touch, or intersect, and at those places—especially where Water and Earth touch, it might even be something akin to our world!”
“But without any heat, or air to breathe, so we'd freeze and suffocate,” you pointed out, only to suddenly come to a halt as Izirina whirled on you, eyes alight with excitement.
“That’s where your magic comes in so useful!” she exclaimed. “<Elemental Infusion> can attune a physical being to any of the elements, or even a combination! When you infused me with lightning, I tried electrocuting myself with <Lightning Bolt>--”
“You WHAT?!”
“—and I was completely fine! When you infused me with flame, I could step into a fireplace and be unharmed! When you attuned me to water… I couldn’t drown.”
You stared at her, realizing the full scope of what she was planning.
“You mean for us to literally leave this world,” you said. “You want to… What, create a new one, out in the elemental planes?”
Izirina looked at you hopefully, and you felt your own frustration growing. It was an astonishing idea, but Izirina… Izirina was SMART. Didn’t she see the obvious flaw?
“Izzy, I can’t maintain the spell FOREVER,” you reminded her. “I only have so much mana! YOU only have so much mana! Even with potions, or some other means to store or replenish it, running out or any interruption in concentration could result in us losing that attunement and DYING INSTANTLY.”
“That’s where <Clone> enters the equation.”
You stared.
“Think about it,” she continued, beginning to walk again as nervous energy suffused her and drove her forward. “You can create an organism… A duplicate of us. Modify the body with chimericism and elemental attunement, in a more permanent way…”
“…And it will still have no soul,” you pointed out, hurrying to keep pace.
“But we know how to get past that now,” she said.
