Adept Hadrien of The Rock
Adept Hadrien is usually an elusive wizard.
Never interested in the formal promotion beyond an "adept", he enjoys the luxury of being a student wherever he goes.
Travelling across the world, often by foot or hitchhiking, Hadrien visits all the major and minor scholarly towns, reading and writing all the way.
Particularly fond of the world's more obscure and difficult to find forbidden and forgotten libraries, his travels have brought about an interesting story or two, which he has occasionally told late around a campfire when most have already dozed off to sleep.
A true student of the arts, his readings span across the magical, alchemical, mythical and natural literature, making him a gentleman of most interesting nature.
He is not easily sought but is often around just when you need him.
Whether it's to identify the crushed herb at the bottom of your grandfather's ancient pipe, to recite the correct incantation for a beach house morple moralem rite, or to reverse your nephew's mis-spell that has made Aunt Hera an angrily animated teapot - Adept Hadrien always appears to be in the right place at the right time.
Many years on the road have brought him to be accustomed to solo travel, however, for short spans of time he can find himself helping an old friend for a week or two.
Consulting on matters such as great beast egg retrieval, cursed temple exploration, and expeditions that are destined for distant lands, he'll often accompany the traveling party with his trusty companion, a white hare.
Seemingly unnamed, he usually refers to this hare as 'old chap', 'mate', or 'cheeky b-stard'.
Old Hadrien looked around.
"Where are you now you cheeky b-stard?!"
Appearing in the doorway, the hare looked at him as if to say;
"I'm the one who's been waiting for you, you old fart."
Shaking his head, Hadrien collected his belongings and followed the hare, who was now bouncing towards the hill and into the night...
Over the years, Hadrien has studied many tongues and faced many dangers.
Street-wise as well as book-smart, Hadrien is no stranger to the oddities and eccentricities of the world. His ability to understand many languages opens doors that others sometimes struggle to find.
Bartering at the thieves market of the Alchemists Archepelago he speaks in slang terms that command respect from the rogue and defected alchemists who are often shunned by the more esteemed for their unsavoury practices.
On another day, he can be found enjoying the fine cuisine of a Great Old One's Land Palace - exquisitely designed cliff caves that can face the brunt of brutal storms and are seldom visited by most land-dwellers.
Always on the move and never settled, one thing Hadrien can't do is stay in one place for very long. His friends can go for years without seeing him, receiving only the occasional letter to let them know that he'll need some ingredients sent out for an experimental concoction or for burning at an ancient ritual site.
An eccentric wizard to say the least, everybody loves Hadrien, but nobody really knows who he is...
To most, Hadrien is that old eccentric wizard with the white hare, who almost always has a book in hand.
As helpful and cheerful as he appears, one gets the sense that Hadrien might also be lonely and it seems that he looks to avoid confrontation at all costs.
There is rumour that when he was a young boy, after one of his first forays into the forbidden libraries of the seventh realm, he brought back with him knowledge of a spell that killed his childhood best friend in a manner that few dare to describe.
They say it was in a childhood fit of rage that any adult would be embarrassed of, and so thats why he spends much of his time alone, and that's why he spends so much of his time learning the forgotten ways.
Some say he's trying to bring his friend back from the dead, others say he's searching for a way to destroy The Gate to the Seventh Realm.
Yet, some think that these rumours began with jealous wizards that were unable to match Hadrien's ability to travel with such grace and luck, absorbing knowledge that many are entirely unaware of.
Add to that the fact that conversation with Hadrien is rarely centred on him, if at all, and it becomes hard to know what of those rumours might really be true...
Popping in and out of your life at the most serendipitous times, you don't ask Adept Hadrien of The Rock about his past, because what he brings to the present is a gift to all.
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