The Lore of Artificer Fabio of the Sands

Caspar, an elderly widower, wished for a child, but life had not blessed him with one. However, as a master artificer, he decided to create his own son. Fabio was born in a workshop after many months of blood, sweat, and forbidden incantations.

Fabio and Caspar had a few happy years together, and Fabio learned what he could of his father’s craft. However, the Artificer’s Guild learned that Caspar had broken one of their core rules - never create something with a will of its own.

Before his father was arrested and executed, Fabio was sent off into hiding in the Sands, a wasteland frequented by smugglers, thieves, and nomadic herders. A good place to make oneself scarce.

Caspar also gifted his wooden son with his other prized masterwork - the Quill of Truth. A phoenix feather imbued with creative energy, it can manifest into the physical realm anything it writes, with one condition - it must be a true thing.

Fabio quickly learned that this limitation was a bit difficult to get around - wishing to manifest something he imagined just made his nose grow longer! So, he developed a system. By creating secret caches of useful objects throughout the Sands, he could have reasonable assurances of those objects being there later on, and could summon them at will through his quill. This made survival in the Sands much easier, since he could remain mobile and summon food, drink, and other items as needed.

Unfortunately, the Artificer’s Guild had not forgotten about poor Fabio, and a sizable bounty had been placed on his capture, dead or alive. In the run up to the Great Wizard Burning, a member of the mercenary group “Miyo’s Boys” ambushed Fabio and captured him before he could escape or use his Quill. Now under the custody of Chaos Mage Miyo’s faction, Fabio’s future hangs in the balance…

(to be continued)

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