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<span class="mu-i"> ''Desperation humbles even the most arrogant of men. Allies of convenience, yes, but make no mistake, there is a long way to go before our state would officially ally itself with a state on the mainland. And there are these at court who believe you and your fellows are unwelcome still.'' </span>
<span class="mu-i"> ''I am in need of a teacher in Mithradian. And a good one at that. Could you help me?'' </span>
<span class="mu-i"> ''I could, but what is in it for me?'' </span>
<span class="mu-i"> '''Payment, and it is only for a week.'' </span>
<span class="mu-i"> ''Payment, pah! He who has the most is content with the least.'' </span> He looks at you expectingly, like a schoolmaster might with a pupil.
<span class="mu-i"> ''You aren't familiar with the classics, are you?'' </span> He asked, to which you nodded in affirmation.
<span class="mu-i"> ''Keep your money; I shall teach you from the ground up. Everything, from how to spell your name in our alphabet to reciting the great philosophers of the olden days.'' </span>
<span class="mu-i"> ''Don't you have other students to teach as well?'' </span> It's odd that a learned man has so much free time.
<span class="mu-i"> ''Ive been unofficially expelled; the patriarch and the other teachers didn't like me introducing new techniques and didactics. They haven't stopped my salary, and I have plenty of free time, so why not? Come, we'll start right away. Don't think it will be easy; I am a demanding man.'' </span>
To say you were afraid of learning is an understatement; however, Eleftherios proved to be a harsh master to study under; you would get up early in the morning before the sun rose, and the study would last until late in the evening. It began simple: spell your own name in Mithradian, first in the Auruncian alphabet, and then in the Mithradian one. Thus, Albrecht became Alvertos, and then Αλβερτος. It then became intenser and intenser, with the old man hitting you on the back of the head until you got it right. You led it slide. The man was merely doing his job. Yet his lectures and methods proved effective enough that he took you on tour throughout Elisonikon later in the week. Where he made you read random signs and read them aloud, whenever he felt that you had advanced enough, he would talk to you about the finer subjects, the humanities. While you were walking near one of Elisonikon's biggest squares.
<span class="mu-i"> ''Tis’ said of the cynic Diafanis that he once wandered through his city with a lantern, looking for true wise men, while challenging any mage to use their spells to find one. He was a bit of an eccentric and-.'' </span> The sound of trumpets cuts short his talk. Right away, he took you somewhere you couldn't see. <span class="mu-i"> ''This should prove interesting, though it is best for you to remain somewhere unseen.'' </span> He tells you as a troop of riders in shining armour make their way across the square, two men ride in the front, chatting casually with each other.
