10-13-2017, 06:36 PM
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A haunting song drifts to him on the autumn wind. Levi finds himself drawn by the melody and he tracks it like a scent trail. The seasons orange and red leave flurry around him as he takes great long strides through the forest, hoping to find the singer before her enchanting song is over. It leads him to a mysterious cottage which he finds simultaneously spooky and cozy.
But before he can continue his investigation he feels himself being transformed by what he can only assume is powerful magic. He feels no pain, but his hide cracks and his skull split behind each ear. The fire within him suddenly ignites ten-fold and jets out from the cracks in his skin. The heat causes his flesh to harden and blacken into tempered armor and ram's horn spiral out from the broken places in his skull. His vertebra each sprout an obsidian horn and he finds his weight sifting back, back onto his haunches until his front half lifts up to hover poised on his two rear hooves. Alarmed, he glances down just in time to watch his hoves split and split again until he has five onyx fingers where each hoof has been.
The fairy suddenly seems to realize that something has happened and she turns to face him, the would-be peeping tom, helplessly caught in the sway of her magic. But as her eyes find him, what she sees is not a stallion of Tephra, but a hulking Balrog.
She smiles.
She has remade him, and she seems to find him adorable - judging by the glimmer in her eye. He takes a moment to look himself over, flexing his fingers and toes stretching his wings. He was a powerful stallion, like his father, but the strength which he can feel coiled in his... muscles? magma? is beyond anything he had experienced as a horse. He feels powerful enough to rip the side off of a mountain. He wears a shadow like a cloak and as he takes a step, a little wobbly because of the spell he is under, the earth trembles. The Volcano of Tephra personified -
he smiles back at her.
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Balrogs (from Lord of the Rings) can manipulate fire and shadows. They are powerful creatures roughly the shape of a man but much larger. They have horns, streaming fire manes, and wings . They wield a fire whip or sword and are very difficult to kill but several died by falling off the tops of mountains.
A haunting song drifts to him on the autumn wind. Levi finds himself drawn by the melody and he tracks it like a scent trail. The seasons orange and red leave flurry around him as he takes great long strides through the forest, hoping to find the singer before her enchanting song is over. It leads him to a mysterious cottage which he finds simultaneously spooky and cozy.
But before he can continue his investigation he feels himself being transformed by what he can only assume is powerful magic. He feels no pain, but his hide cracks and his skull split behind each ear. The fire within him suddenly ignites ten-fold and jets out from the cracks in his skin. The heat causes his flesh to harden and blacken into tempered armor and ram's horn spiral out from the broken places in his skull. His vertebra each sprout an obsidian horn and he finds his weight sifting back, back onto his haunches until his front half lifts up to hover poised on his two rear hooves. Alarmed, he glances down just in time to watch his hoves split and split again until he has five onyx fingers where each hoof has been.
The fairy suddenly seems to realize that something has happened and she turns to face him, the would-be peeping tom, helplessly caught in the sway of her magic. But as her eyes find him, what she sees is not a stallion of Tephra, but a hulking Balrog.
She smiles.
She has remade him, and she seems to find him adorable - judging by the glimmer in her eye. He takes a moment to look himself over, flexing his fingers and toes stretching his wings. He was a powerful stallion, like his father, but the strength which he can feel coiled in his... muscles? magma? is beyond anything he had experienced as a horse. He feels powerful enough to rip the side off of a mountain. He wears a shadow like a cloak and as he takes a step, a little wobbly because of the spell he is under, the earth trembles. The Volcano of Tephra personified -
he smiles back at her.
</div><div style="font-family: 'Cinzel', serif; font-size: 60px; color: #d7d6d4; line-height: 30pt; padding-top: 20px; align:center; text-shadow: 1px 1px 20px #373431; text-transform: uppercase;">Levi</div><div style="font-family: Times; color: #767678; font-size: 9.5pt; text-align: center; padding-top: 5px; padding-bottom:15px; line-height: 15pt; letter-spacing: .5px;"><i>so scream you, out from behind the bitter ache.</i></div></div></center></div>
Balrogs (from Lord of the Rings) can manipulate fire and shadows. They are powerful creatures roughly the shape of a man but much larger. They have horns, streaming fire manes, and wings . They wield a fire whip or sword and are very difficult to kill but several died by falling off the tops of mountains.