( true to linhardt's assessment, laenor does know how to use a sword, and he wields it well. magic, to him, isn't anything more than rumor ands bedtime tale. there are tales are red women and men who channel the lord of light without being burned, but they're far and few between. )

Nonsense.

Molten rivers, beings composed of lightning... Foolishness, all of it. I was promised adventure, not whatever manner of disorder we find ourselves in.

( a monkey's paw of adventure, then. )

I should have known better. This is little more than a trick. We've been played.