01-22-2020, 10:11 AM
She greets him with a laugh, something cold and unamused. ”To have my power is to give up living. We are not like you, we are simply magic made flesh to better serve. To say you are our puppets is to misunderstand the nature of this world. Beqanna is magic, the land is alive, and we protect that land. Mortals tend to believe they are the only things affected by their actions.”
She lets that sit between them for a moment as she shifts, becoming a dragon so large the top of her disappears into the cloud. “You cannot be both what you are and what I am,” her voice rumbles from above somewhere. “You have to give up all you are for the sake of magic.” She shrinks again, forming into her small fairy self. She need not exist in any form, not really, for she does not exist by the limits of what they understand.
That is always the problem though, they do not understand.
“I had hoped you would learn what you are without magic. It is greater than you think. But perhaps you need to understand that lesson in a different way.” She forces his shift, turning him into the dragon he loves. “So become what you most revere, a predator. Go and live as a predator only, and learn what it is like to be nothing but magic, nothing but this power you think defines you. Come back when you have learned the lesson. The longer it takes you, the less you will remember your horse self and the more the predator will overtake you.”
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Castile has been granted a quest. He is stuck in his dragon form until the quest is complete, and as time passes he will become more predator than horse, so these tasks should get more difficult as you complete them. You must participate in three threads where Castile attempts to live as a dragon rather than as a horse (with other characters in the game or NPC account), and come back to report what he learns. He will have the instincts of a predator, not a horse, during this time. Only threads started before this post may be completed in horse form, but no new threads in horse form may be started until this quest is complete.
She lets that sit between them for a moment as she shifts, becoming a dragon so large the top of her disappears into the cloud. “You cannot be both what you are and what I am,” her voice rumbles from above somewhere. “You have to give up all you are for the sake of magic.” She shrinks again, forming into her small fairy self. She need not exist in any form, not really, for she does not exist by the limits of what they understand.
That is always the problem though, they do not understand.
“I had hoped you would learn what you are without magic. It is greater than you think. But perhaps you need to understand that lesson in a different way.” She forces his shift, turning him into the dragon he loves. “So become what you most revere, a predator. Go and live as a predator only, and learn what it is like to be nothing but magic, nothing but this power you think defines you. Come back when you have learned the lesson. The longer it takes you, the less you will remember your horse self and the more the predator will overtake you.”
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Castile has been granted a quest. He is stuck in his dragon form until the quest is complete, and as time passes he will become more predator than horse, so these tasks should get more difficult as you complete them. You must participate in three threads where Castile attempts to live as a dragon rather than as a horse (with other characters in the game or NPC account), and come back to report what he learns. He will have the instincts of a predator, not a horse, during this time. Only threads started before this post may be completed in horse form, but no new threads in horse form may be started until this quest is complete.