Today I talked Azrezel into participating in my sparring matches. So far he is pretty good at it, which makes sense because he has had years to practice manipulating undead puppets. His skills might not be perfectly compatible, but they are relevant.

We both made a puppet, him with flesh manipulation and me with plant manipulation, that had approximately the same amount of mana and then used them in a fight to the death. He has a lot more experience controlling puppets like this, while I have a lot more experience designing them. Ultimately I won about two-thirds of the matches we had, with both of us only taking a little bit of time between each match to do some tweaks to the design. I feel like Azrezel is going to improve a lot faster than me for a little bit as he gets used to actually building puppets like this.

The puppets he’s using to fight with, much like my own, do not have a soul and as such are completely controlled by Azrezel. Though it might be interesting to create a massive army of puppets to fight his undead hordes, maybe someday.

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Other than that I spent my downtime hanging out with Par. I got him to tell me all about his fancy fire. He has no idea how it works, just that one day he started using it in a fight. He isn’t really sure what it does intentionally, in that he has no idea what it isn’t capable of and he doesn’t want to think too hard about it in case he accidentally makes something impossible with it. Apparently, that is an actual thing that can happen when using powers that are driven entirely by instinct and emotion, like his fire is. Though some things he has noticed that it is capable of so far seem to follow a couple common themes, like healing and preventing healing, or nourish and nurturing plants, or destroying them. It seems to be some twisted form of my own powers guided through emotion and zeal instead of thought and understanding.

Unfortunately, it isn’t exactly the type of thing he can teach other people, I would really like to see more of what it is capable of but I don’t want to hold Par back from his own goals. I am certain he would gladly let me take the time to study him, but I would feel bad about it.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.