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Narratio Veneficus

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Narratio Veneficus
**46 years ago**
Grenaridorph’s beard was only beginning to grey, and he was still spry enough to wander the land, he did just that. He wandered everywhere his feet could take him, and some places that they could not.
Grenaridorph was young, and, like most royalty, forced to study what other men had learned about the world; to the end that he would be a wise and just leader. But to his parents’ dismay, he revoked the throne that was his by right; and instead set out to cogitate all the things and people he came across.
Of all the things he discovered (including many magical creatures, people, and items) by far the most interesting was an inconspicuously enchanted easel. He was researching a myth, concerning an entire population of a …show more content…

“Go back upstairs.”
“What? do you not want me to see how messy it is down here? Becau-”
“Now.”
In a powerful voice that commanded attention, Grenaridorph exclaimed, “Pyrgladios!”
A blade made of fire immediately sprung from his palm, it had the shape of a katana, and the heat waves radiating from it were visible. “Come and face your doom foul monster.”
From behind a bookcase stepped a hideous monster. It was nearly seven feet tall, it’s arms were corded with unseen muscle and it’s fur was black and matted. It was shaped like a very strong man, with hands not unlike a wolf’s but with the thumbs of a person. Lastly, where a face should have been there was the skull of a wolf, fleshless and abominable. The eyes were much too large for is face and sightless; pure white like the skull, without pupils.
With inhuman speed it lept over a table, knocking awry the scrolls that were setting there.
“Ventus!”
A blast of wind threw the beast back against a heap of wooden boxes, splinters flying everywhere. “Saliet!”shouted

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