The Gathered Lore of the Transmuter Aldus of the Valley and his (sometimes) drunken hummingbird Galban

"Transmuter" Aldus, the unfortunate prophet, is once again seen outside the confines of his self imposed exile. Years have passed in the time he remained hidden away in his valley tinkering with his ancient rune. Local lore recounts that before fading from society Prophet Aldus had found fragments of a new rune and was desperate to discover their mystery. To somehow find a way to bring enough good to bring equilibrium to the darkness his magics have done within the world. It is known Aldus has the gift for prophecy, however, the curse of the prophet is to one day misread one's own future and it is in this great misunderstanding that Aldus found disaster.

What exactly happened in the Valley that day has been pieced together by a scattering of memories from the survivors sane enough to relate the tale as Aldus has never been heard to speak of the day. It can not be disputed the landscape was badly scarred, what was once a small hill became a pockmark on the field and the town was caught in a powerful landslide. Was it one of those remnants of technology erupting with power as it was filled with magic or something more mystical that reaped the destruction as the townsfolk claim that magic ripped through the earth itself.

Aldus lost himself after the spectacular failure of transmutation attempting to shift some stone to grain resulted in a hillside becoming liquid and a town being left in ruin. It is told to children at night in hushed voices that following the explosion of magic Aldus went quite out of his mind and that reality shifted dangerously for hours in the area. What was solid became soft, the streams hardened and the sky itself fell as water. For 3 days the very fabric of reality seemed to stretch and pull with small ripples of spent power. On the 3rd day everything jerked back to normal and a nervous town found an unconscious Aldus propped against a wall in his workshop. The Goblet of Immortality firmly in his grip and a rune shaped as an ascending arrow smoldering white and hovering above the workbench beside the slumbering magi.

It is known Aldus was unable to deal with the horrific reality of his actions and his mind was lost for some time to mania and wine. In a twist of fate while attempting to drink himself to death in a manic episode brought on by his enormous surge of magic Aldus mistakenly utilized the goblet of immortality as his wine vessel. During a blurred night of drinking to forget while his fingers still sparked with latent magics Aldus granted himself years seemingly without end draining several bottles of a dry Riveria Red out of the mystic goblet.

Over the years he had faded from society becoming more and more reclusive, until even his home deep within the valley became legend. To the great relief of the valley Aldus has again been seen out in the fields and around the township. He is accompanied always by a humminbird familiar he calls Galban and has not been seen without his rune at hand since his reappearance. It is suspected another breakthrough has been made as strange sounds and flashes of light have been seen recently outside the valley. What could it mean for the town and for Aldus' understanding of this strange symbol. What powers are held within?

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