Farenhale awakens after sensing that his brother had another vision he can guess what one but it still perplexes' him, he doesn't know why these visions started or even if they are true but what he does know is that he has to help in some way. He has tried in the past to help but to no avail but now that it's been many years he may be able to do something now. He gets up teleporting his clothing and armour on.
"Starting with a scan may help but when hes starting to have a vision may be best once this current vision is over I'll speak to him and hopefully I can help him" Farenhale says
A short while later he teleports to Reinlas.
"Hello brother" Farenhale says
"Hello brother" Reinlas says his eyes returning to their normal colour
"I know we tried it years ago but I want to try and help you understand these visions more and hopefully control them" Farenhale says
"Ill be glad to have that happen but how do you suppose we start trying that?" Reinlas asks
"Well first start with a scan when you start to have a vision and also during its coarse hopefully we'll go on from there" Farenhale says
"I'll telepathically tell you when one is starting if I can tell you in time" Reinlas says
"Just try brother an hopefully we'll have answers soon" Farenhale says
Farenhale walks out of the room and walks to the Reinholm castle library to read up on magic to see if there might be something else out there already discovered that may help a bit with this situation. To his surprise there had apparently been rumors of people who's magic was more powerful than it should be But alas they were only rumors. After a few hours pass Reinlas contacts Farenhale telepathically to tell him he feels the vision is starting and Farenhale teleports to him and starts scanning Reinlas.
"Interesting there's some kind of energy here I don't recognize and it seems to be very notable among your energies as its increasing in what it does whatever that may be" Farenhale says very intrigued
Reinlas's eyes turn red.
"Your eyes turned red and the energy along with your other ones is getting stronger but this one in particular is increasing exponentially in a way I did not see coming, likely its causing the vision to become stronger and show more likely making it worse" Farenhale says
"I can fucking tell!" Reinlas shouts seeing the normal vision of the valley city
"I'll find out what this energy is and why its causing these horrific visions" Farenhale says as he teleports to the valley city castle with the books from earlier
He conjures a physical representation of this energy and looks it over.
"Fascinating even though this is a conjuration and not the real thing its still got that weird allure and there's something weirdly strange about it that feels familiar but I cant place it" Farenhale says
He picks up the books from earlier remembering the rumors of people with magic stronger than they should have finding that there's some kind of pattern with it being people out near the borders away from others.
"If these rumors are to be believed then maybe these peoples magic could hold a small bit of aid in finding out more about these visions" Farenhale says
He find out the nearest village to the place these people have been reported and finds the name is Ineir, he gets up and de-conjures the representation of that energy and flies to the village of Ineir after a short flight he lands down in the village center the villages leader is surprised to see him an walks over.
"Lord Farenhale it is a surprise to have you come to our village, may I ask why?" The village leader says with confusion on is face
"I had recently heard of the rumors of people with magic stronger than they should be around the area, I'm looking into magical anomalies and was seeing if these rumor are true and if so what I can find out from these people" Farenhale says
"Well I've certainly heard these rumors myself and have believed them at points after witnessing someones eyes burst into flames as they let out quite a lot of magic, but I wrote that off as just a powerful individual at some point" The village leader says but with a small shake in his voice at the end as if trying to hide something
"Hes hiding something, he clearly doesn't want to speak of it directly and he would have fooled me were it not for that shakiness in his voice" Farenhale thinks to himself
"Can I help you in anyway lord Farenhale?" The village leader asks
"You can start by giving me your name I'd rather know who I'm speaking to" Farenhale says
"Of coarse, my name is Gragnior" The village leader says
"Well good to meet you Gragnior" Farenhale says
"Likewise lord farenhale" Gragnior says
"Anyway back to why I'm here, that person you saw before where did you see them?" Farenhale asks
"I'll bring you there" Gragnior says
Farenhale nods and they fly towards where this person was apparently seen and there is a few burned to death poison claws and farenhale can definitely sense the strong magic used here.
"Definitely an interesting sight and sense" Farenhale says to himself
"The man stood about here" Gragnior says as he walks over to a spot where the poison claws would be in a very vulnerable position as they couldnt see him
"So this person seems to have a strategic or at least more stealthy mind it seems" Farenhale says
"Indee-" Gragnior is cut off when lightning suddenly shoots off him into a nearby bush setting it ablaze and he quickly puts out the fire with hsi own fire magic
"What the hell was that for!?" Farenhale says very confused
"I sensed another poison claw maybe one waiting for whoever killed these two and mistook me for it" Gragnior says but theres a little more shakiness in his voice indicating hes lying again
"Second lie, what is he trying to hide? Hmm" Farenhale thinks to himself and then uses magic to scan Gragnior
The scan reveals something to farenhale, regarding Gragniors soul.
"What the fuck?" Farenhale says after seeing the scans results of Gragniors soul
"Excuse me my lord?" Gragnior says slightly taken aback by the sudden swear from farenhale
Farenhale looks at him and conjures a representation of Gragniors soul and it loosk cracked like anything in it could spill out in some way.
"Oh.... fuck" Gragnior says
"Alright I want an explanation and as to why you were lying I can now feel its because of your soul but I want to know why you lied in the first place" Farenhale says sounding both intrigued but quite serious as he hasnt seen this before
"Right, I lied because that person who killed these poison claws was me, the rumours here are about me" Gragnior says
"Alright that much could be pieced together after a while but if you can, explain why your magic is apparently more powerful" Farenhale says
"As far as I and the others have found out-" Gragnior is cut off
"What others?" Farenhale asks
"I'm not the only one, some other second generation immortalai appeared with this strain of magic, some are in this kingdom while others went to the others makes me fear what the wars look like with that knowledge" Gragnior says
"Alright, anyway continue" Farenhale says
"As I was saying we know it has something to do with the cracks in our soul but we havent been able to completely decipher what it is but while our magic is stronger than it should be, we do have a major drawback" Gragnior says
"And what would that be?" Farenhale says with major intrigue
"It may be easier to show you but I cant show the full drawback at risk of my own life" Gragnior says
"Alright" Farenhale says with a bit of confusion but is still finding this interesting
Gragniors eyes light on fire as he starts to seemingly let loose of some control that he has and the ground cracks open a little and trees start to move and lightnign strikes down around them both.
"Fasinating" Farenhale says as he looks around knowing this is not jsut a powerful magic user using some impressive control over magic its magic itself
After a few minutes Gragnior seems to look a bit unwell.
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"Are you alright Gragnior?" Farenhale asks looking at him with concern
Gragnior stops his magic and the fire in his eyes extinguishes as he falls to hsi knees and holds his head clearly in pain and Farenhale immediately reacts by using healing magic on him.
"So the drawback is a bad headache?" Farenhale asks
"No thats what it starts as eventually your whole bodies in pain feeling as if your being tortured then your eyes bleed and you start bleeding at other places on your body and if you still havent stopped your magic by taking back what control you've let go of, you WILL die, its not a good sight" Gragnior says
"Well damn, I can imagine so" Farenhale says
"There is another drawback thats harder to hide" Gragnior says
"What is that?" Farenhale asks
"Our magic will some times do things on its own like the lightning from a little bit ago, I did not shoot that lightning that was done on its own, for this reason we have named this strain of magic erratic magic" Gragnior says
"Interesting and definitely dangerous" Farenhale says
"Indeed but if I may ask, why did you coem to investigate the rumours?" Gragnior asks
"A secret royal reason I nor do the others liek hiding the secret but only those in the castle know, anyway I'm going to need you to come to the Valley city castle, I want to find our mroe about your magic, thats if you dont mind anyway" Farenhale says
"I'm fine with it, just let me tell my wife" Gragnior says and his eyes flash as he telepathcally tell hsi wife where hes going
"Alright lets go" Farenhale says as they fly to the valley city castle
Soon enough they are back and land at the castle and walk in heading to the library and potion room connected to the small library there.
"Just let loose of a little bit of control when it gets too much stop alright?" Farenhale says as he starts to scan Gragnior
"Alright" Gragnior says as fire lights in hsi eyes and the ground under him cracks a little
"I'm mainly scanning your soul during this and I'm already getting some interesting results" Farenhale says
After a few minutes Gragnior stops his magic and the fire extinguishes as the ground uncracks.
"What did you get?" Gragnior asks
"Well to explain it would be easier if you know the ins and outs of your magic so do you?" Farenhale asks
"I only know what I need to know such as how to control it and other such things not things like how it is made stored and other such things" Gragnior says
"Alright I'll explain it all and then hwo it factors into your situation" Farenhale says
"Alright" Gragnior says
"Think of your soul as what generates, moderates and contains your magic so as you get older your body gets stronger as does your soul so it can store more and generate that much more" Farenhale says
"Alright that seems easy to understand" Gragnior says
"Theres much more in depth ways to put it but that's just the easy way to put it, anyway in you and the other erratic magic users case your soul is cracked meaning it cannot contain or moderate all the magic your soul is making, which is why it can sometimes just shoot out lightning or fire and why your body rejects the full amount of magic you don't contain yourself" Farenhale says
"That makes sense" Gragnior says
"Now from what it seems, there's no way to fix your soul? I don't think anyone's really experimented with them to even have the knowledge to do that but your souls cracks might be a hereditary thing? I could be wrong but remember that just in case" Farenhale says
"Alright, good to know if that is true" Gragnior says with a small bit of fear in his voice
"That fear is understandable uncontrollable magic and a baby would not end well" Farenhale says
"Yeah, that's not a fun thought" Gragnior says
"Now can I ask you a question?" Farenhale asks
"Sure go ahead my lord" Gragnior says
"Well have you ever seen or felt energy that looks like this?" Farenhale asks as he re-conjures the representation of the energy Reinlas had coming from him
"I don't believe so, I could be wrong though as some times things get fuzzy during the time I let loose of some control" Gragnior says
"Alright fair enou-" Farenhale is cut off by Gragniors eyes igniting in flames
"Check should you need to but please quickly" Gragnior says
Farenhale nods and scans him and does find the energy coming from him.
"Fascinating" Farenhale says as Gragnior takes back control extinguishing the fire in hsi eyes
Farenhale conjures a representation of the energy from Gragnior and its identical to what Reinlas had.
"The same energy came from you" Farenhale says
"I hope this somehow helps, lord Farenhale" Gragnior says
"As do I Gragnior" Farenhale says as Gragnior leaves
Farenhale goes over to a table with the conjured representations and sighs.
"Well at least I know its not just Reinlas that has it, that's a step" Farenhale says
Farenhale begins to get curious as to who else may have this energy and due to being Reinlas's twin he starts to think maybe he would have it.
"Maybe if I can cause whatever makes Reinlas's eyes turn to another colour to happen to me then maybe I can start experimenting with it easier" Farenhale thinks to himself as he
He starts thinking over all the times Reinlas' eyes turned red but sees similar patterns with stress, anger and abject horror or things to do with combat and death looming over the situation.
"Ok maybe I wont be able to trigger it that way without putting myself or someone else in danger" Farenhale says to himself
"Maybe... I can use some of my magic to capture some of that energy to experiment on it, might even help with making my own eyes change" Farenhale says again
Farenhale sends out small bits off magical energy around the room and starts to try and find the fastest and most capable method of holding energy failing a couple of times in a rather explosive way.
"Ow... I wish I could foresee these sorts of things" Farenhale says as he gets up after one explosive result sends him through a wall
Guards come over.
"Are you alright lord Farenhale?" One guard asks
"I'm perfectly fine just an experiment gone wrong" Farenhale says looking at them
"Oh, good?" The guard says partially confused and walks away with the others
"Rather small interaction makes me realize how little they all talk" Farenhale remarks as he walks back into the room
He starts trying to capture some energies and at some point he successfully gets it.
"Alright phase two" Farenhale says looking at the captured energy with some pride and gets all his energies back and teleports to Reinholm castle
Farenhale walks to the garden and sees Reinlas at the Royal training area just a bit into the garden and walks to him.
"Hello brother" Farenhale says
"Hello brother, heard you've been a bit all over" Reinlas says turning to look at him
"Yeah, I've been trying to find out more about whats going on with you and I've found some interesting things but right now I have a good lead to your visions though sadly I just need to wait for you to have one or go with our other option but at least with your energy I know its a guarantee to have results of you" Farenhale says
"Right" Reinlas says with a slight sigh
"This will get us closer brother, I can feel it and then hopefully you'll live in peace without having to see the horrific visions again" Farenhale says with a hopeful smile
"Alright I'll trust your judgment on this we just need to wait" Reinlas says
They continue talking about some things for a while before Reinlas feels it.
"Dammit I can feel a vision coming on" Reinlas says
"Alright, I guess its a good thing you can feel that coming on rather than it being spontaneous" Farenhale says
"Farenhale shut up and get on with the energy captu-" Reinlas is cut off by a searing pain in the head as his vision starts
Farenhale scans for the energy an uses his own magic to capture it into his soul but not absorb it.
"Got you" Farenhale says and he telepathically informs Linra that Reinlas is having a vision so that she can help him as he teleports to the potion room at the Valley city castle
Theres a couple of potions in the room that hes working on with their ingredients surrounding them including a dead poison claw is there for its venom. He then uses magic to make his potion room keep the energy here instead of disappearing and brings the energy out of his soul. He starts looking it over.
"Alright the real thing this time lets see what makes you what you are" Farenhale says as he starts channeling magic into the energy expanding it and then duplicating
"Fascinating, I guess this would explain why there's so much coming from Reinlas at a time if it duplicates like this, his first blood gives him enough magic to have it duplicate though it does seem to get worse when his eyes change, hmm a topic for another time" Farenhale says to himself
Farenhale gives the energy more magic to have it duplicate some more so that if something destroys one he has backups to test on.
"Alright what to start with? Maybe if I channel my magic through my hands and holds onto the energy I might find out more if not ill touch magical energy thats new so whatever" Farenhale says with a small laugh
He starts to channel his magic into hsi hands and touches one of the energies and immediately hes hit with flashes of the valley city vision and he immediately stops touching it.
"By the rest of the first, THIS is what Reinlas has been seeing? How the fuck has he not gone crazy!?" Farenhale says
After a couple of minutes he composes himself and looks back at the energies.
"At least its progress, I guess" Farenhale says
Farenhale walks over to the energies and channels his magic again and touches the energy seeing it all again but just like Reinlas hes unable to see the person whos killed at the door of the very castle hes standing in and he starts pulling this energy apart slowly to see if it will reveal anything but when he does it explodes and sends him through a wall.
"Ow fuck that hurt" Farenhale says getting up and walks back into the room
Farenhale walks over to his potions to see if anything got knocked over when he went through the wall or just by the explosion.
"Wait somethings missing" Farenhale says when hes suddenly attacked by a poison claw the oen that was previously dead
Farenhale stops its claws from hittign him and pushes it back into a wall and it gets up lunging at him but he quickly sidesteps it and conjures a blade so as the poison claw moves past him it gets slashed by making the poison claw start bleeding and lands on its side as farenhale quickly lights hsi blade on fire and throws it into the poison claws face.
"What the fuck!?" Farenhale shouts and goes out to the guards
"Check aroudn for anythign that shouldnt be here now!" Farenhale shout at them
"Yes lord farenhale!" They all shout and immediately draw their blades and patrol around the castle searching
Farenhale walks back into the room and looks at the poison claw and takes his blade back and looks at it and checks something.
"Definitely the same one as before, it had a defect from when it was born according to my scans making its right front paw not as big as the rest, this thing was dead though did that energy bring it back to life?" Farenhale whispers to himself and looks at the remaining energies
Farenhale then walk over to the energies and looks at them.
"Just what the hell are you?" Farenhale says very confused, slightly terrified and very intrigued
He begins to grab the different energies and put them together channelling magic into them and they weirdly start to form together this time creating some kind of line.
"This.... is not what I expected" Farenhale says
He takes one of the energies away from the rest and channels magic into it making it duplicate and puts the new ones together and its creates mroe of the line and as he goes to touch it the line duplicates but shows a new point and shows the year.
"What the hell..." Farenhale says and he goes to touch the point and it shows the events of today before he suddenly gets a vision of far into the future where a woman is reading a book and it tells the events of today in the book in farenhales hand writing before ending with.
"I discovered time magic" The book reads
"What the fuck!" Farenhale exclaims as the vision ends
Suddenly the two lines go to his hands and form into what looks like a clock face in them with green energy flowing around it as they enter his hands and he feels the burst of magic.
"This cant be true" Farenhale says to himself and he gets up and accidentally opens a window to the past showing the day the first generation appeared
He looks at it.
"By the rest of the first it is true" Farenhale says
He puts his hand out to it and closes it.
"I need to go tell Reinlas this, if he had this energy then I should be able to teach him how to access it and maybe stop his visions all together" Farenhale says and teleports to Reinholm castle
He goes to where Linra and Reinlas are.
"Reinlas! Linra! I bring amazing news" Farenhale says
"And what would that be?" Reinlas says
"An answer to your visions" Farenhale says stepping back and opens the same time window from before
Reinlas gets up and walks over.
"What the hell?" Reinlas says putting his hand on the window feeling a strange sense of familiarity from the window in time
"I discovered time magic and if I'm right it can stop your visions" Farenhale says
"Truly? Then lets get started" Reinlas says as farenhale starts walkign reinlas through what happened and only time will tell how well its worked
Reinlas takes one peer into the future with his visions and sees a dark armoured gauntlet with a bloody sword standing over some armour he feel is familiar but cant get a good enough look to see what the armour is...