David

Since he was a young apprentice, David has been looking to use his magical abilities to unite humans and non-humans alike. Magic, however, can be a tricky craft, corruptable due to its vast power. Shady episodes of his life led David onto paths, he would not want to revisit anymore. At least age has brought him calming wisdom and prevents him from experimenting with the dark side of the arcane. Always at his side is a white rodent called Andrew. Centuries of companionship allowed the two to have some emotional attachment. Therefore, Andrew can act as some sort of out-of-body sensor for David.

In recent years, David focused on brokering peace between rival villages and tribes. Not far from Goblin Town, he almost found his end doing so. While staying in a rural township, working on a peace agreement between two tribes fighting for the honour of the tribe leaders' sons, who both fell in love with the same woman, he suddenly noticed the presence of a powerful arcane object. "This cannot be", he told himself. He has not felt this energy for decades, maybe centuries.

During the night, while the tribes were asleep, he ventured off into the desert that stretched from the township to the Quantum Shadow. "Aye, I need to be careful, the Quantum Shadow is close", he thought. The last time he visited this inexplicable vastness he went on to fight Wizard #2297. He only nearly escaped the powers of this particularly evil wizard, since he was just an apprentice back then. But this is a story for another day. "Today, the odds would be different", he conjectured.

The further he strolled into the desert, the more he could feel the presence of familiar energy. Wizard #0, the Wizard before Wizards, of which he is a direct progeny, left one of his artefacts in this vast nothingness. David has been looking on the side for those, he heard stories about their existence. But no lead ever proved successful, every hunt ended in disappointment. This time it must be different. He could feel the strength and the familiarity of the power.

Suddenly, he realised that he might have reached the location. He saw a small port on the ground of the desert. He could see the sign of the Heavens. David felt reassured. All those years of wanderings and diplomatic missions might come to personal fruition.

David opened the port with a spell only known to a few wizards. He descended into the cave, using his magical abilities to make him float. He commanded his albino rat to observe the entry from above. "If anyone follows me through the port, Andrew will see it and in turn I will be able to feel it", he reassured himself.

The cave was pretty small and the artefact was in the middle, there was neither a riddle nor a challenge present to reach it. Something was off, David could feel it. That's not how the Wizard before Wizards was operating. And indeed he was right. The artefact vanished and instead a dark, grim wizard took its place. He looked at David and said: "Finally, we meet again". The wizard came forward, wielding his sickle in a dangerous fashion. "So be it", said David and prepared for a revenge he thought he might never get...

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