Garion grabbed his form and followed others into the next section, coming across three paths that had many small alcoves on each side. He somehow just knew that there would be enough alcoves for everyone in his group.
Going along the path to his right he eventually came to an alcove with the curtains open. Once he entered it, the curtains closed behind him.
A light appeared and illuminated a strange fellow sitting in a meditative pose, floating so his closed eyes were on level with Garion’s open ones, and the third eye above and between them apparently had long eyelashes.
Somehow it had managed to take the form from his hand without him even realizing it.
A voice spoke into Garion’s mind “I am your evaluator. Shall I just do my job, describe it to you, or have you constantly interrupt me?”
Garion was stunned for a second, but decided to just go with the flow “I’m curious as to what you are doing, but you are probably bored explaining it over and over.”
The being sent an amused thought back to him “You are the first I got who actually wanted to know in a proper manner. At least you are not freaking out.”
Garion smiled sadly. “I’ll do that when I am no longer too stunned, and I have time to think about things like this.”
“I shall be examining you to see what you have and what potential you have. If you don’t want me to assign a Power based on what you have, we can assign one at random. And if someone annoys us, we pick a very bad one for them.”
Er, that sounded worrying. “Bad? How do you mean?”
“Change the color of their bathwater, make their own clothing vanish, Draw agro without control, being able to turn themselves but not their clothes invisible as long as they don’t have air in their lungs, and others.”
OK, do not annoy the staff! That thought ran through Garion’s mind!
The being smiled “Remember that.”
Getting back on track, it told Garion “First I will be seeing if you have any traces of Ascended linage. When people change from one form to another, it not only changes them, but can leave traces on their descendants. This is partly to check for Divine ancestry among other things.
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“If you do have some, we can try to use that as a basis for a Power for you, and a potential Domain. This also picks up any current Ascension of yours or former Ascensions if you regressed.”
It scanned him a bit and wrote down the results.
“Next I am scanning for drawing power from other planes of exist. That will be followed by an aura reading to pick up on any connections your aura has to different things. A part Nymph would have an aura react to nature and be the basis for a Nature Domain and power. A Dhampire would have an affinity for Undeath, Darkness and Necromancy.”
More notes were jotted down.
“Now a scan for Magic affinities and traces. Sometimes magic gifts and affinities can be passed down via generations, expressly when mixed breeding is involved. Even worlds without magic may have traces from past world travelers.”
Some more notes were done.
“Now, I need you to try to mentally relax and I will examine your mind. If I told you what I was after you would try to help or hinder my work, so I’ll tell you afterwards.”
Garion felt the being looking through his memories, emotions and examining him there.
Eventually the intruding thoughts retracted and the being told him “That was to see if you had any skills or interests to be used as part of a Domain or power. I have finished my examination. Do you want to know the results?”
Garion frowned. “Of course I do!”
The being actual laughed and had to take a minute to recover.
“You, lad, have no gifts to be used as the basis of a Domain or Power. You also have no focus of interests to help you go there either. You have been coasting through life and apart from standing up for yourself and others when you were all going to die otherwise, have done nothing of any worth in your life! You don’t even know why you helped the others escape. But I do. You saved the others because you were too stubborn to let someone get away with killing you.
“You have not even thought much about life in general, even what you want out of it. Love for family? Nah, you and they don’t actually care for each other. You lack all motivation.
“In fact, the only thing you currently have that I could use as the basis of a Power for you is your stubbornness. You are just so stubborn you won’t give up even if it hurts you.
“I am giving you the power of Limit Breaker. It is quite simple: When most people come to the limit of what is safe for them, their body forces them to stop so they can recover. You can override that now by sheer will power, but you will be harmed by it as your body gets pushed beyond its limits.”
The curtain opened and the being handed his form back “It is time for you to leave. I have many to see after you. Look on the bright side, your power is better than some other have and is suitable for you. You can also try to find a Domain that suites you, but you will need to think deeply on things.”
Garion felt himself pushed out by an invisible force and left the alcove.
Following the path he soon came to what was the actual exit.