Becoming a Sorcerer
Becoming a sorcerer in Ofadin is a long and arduous process, often taking anywhere from a decade to five years of research, training both the physical and mental form, partaking in specific diets of mystical and off-putting nature, and securing mercenary companies. The sheer amount of time it takes for this is the reason a lot of sorcerers are descendants of earlier sorcerers; it is much easier to dedicate a child to study and training than a withered, old soul.
One might be asking: why mercenaries? The underground of Ofadin, where Mucena is found, is a very dangerous place. It is where ancient dungeons rot away as time passes by - the creatures inside procreating and growing bigger and more hateful. It is where all manner of burrowing and blind creatures stalk the damp and tight tunnels, with tentacle-like antennae prodding and grazing the smallest bits of mass to swallow whole. In the more magical places dwell dragons, sorcerous beings themselves, with their own legions and dungeons. These vicious and spiteful beings guard immense treasures and knowledge, their hearts forever ablaze with hatred for all things that bathe in the sunshine and frolic among the fields on the surface world. It is because of these and many more dangers that up-and-coming sorcerers hire companies of soldiers, excavators and historians to take up a major expedition to search for Mucena, and no two expeditions are the same. Some collapse into unseen ravines hidden below paper thin stone, others are clawed and bitten apart by evil things, while even more simply never find what they searched for despite all these hardships. Mucena is a rare enough thing, and sorcerers whose expeditions fail are often left broke, hopeless and weak.
Once Mucena is found however, three assistants (usually veterans of these Mucena expeditions, taught in the ways of magic though not sorcerers themselves) usually step forward with honey dipper like rods. The aspiring sorcerer undresses and gets on their knees, arching backward with their arms behind their back. This is where the process begins and must be entirely uninterrupted. The honey dipper like rods, henceforth referred to as "mucipilla", are gently lowered into the pool of Mucena and scooped upwards, held above the pool until it stops dripping. The mucipilla are then brought to the aspiring sorcerer's mouth and pushed up to their throat, where they are spun until all Mucena is off the mucipilla, depositing all the Mucena directly into the recipient's digestive track.
The process is repeated ad nauseam until the very last bit of Mucena is scooped from the pool. If a drop is left or spilled outside of the pool or person's body is described in the document "Magic System".
The journey back is usually all well and good, simply retracing the steps of the company, though there have been cases of companies losing their way due to some unknown horrors devouring entire tunnel systems or jumbling paths, making the previous caverns into mazes of misdirection and misfortune.
One might be asking: why mercenaries? The underground of Ofadin, where Mucena is found, is a very dangerous place. It is where ancient dungeons rot away as time passes by - the creatures inside procreating and growing bigger and more hateful. It is where all manner of burrowing and blind creatures stalk the damp and tight tunnels, with tentacle-like antennae prodding and grazing the smallest bits of mass to swallow whole. In the more magical places dwell dragons, sorcerous beings themselves, with their own legions and dungeons. These vicious and spiteful beings guard immense treasures and knowledge, their hearts forever ablaze with hatred for all things that bathe in the sunshine and frolic among the fields on the surface world. It is because of these and many more dangers that up-and-coming sorcerers hire companies of soldiers, excavators and historians to take up a major expedition to search for Mucena, and no two expeditions are the same. Some collapse into unseen ravines hidden below paper thin stone, others are clawed and bitten apart by evil things, while even more simply never find what they searched for despite all these hardships. Mucena is a rare enough thing, and sorcerers whose expeditions fail are often left broke, hopeless and weak.
Once Mucena is found however, three assistants (usually veterans of these Mucena expeditions, taught in the ways of magic though not sorcerers themselves) usually step forward with honey dipper like rods. The aspiring sorcerer undresses and gets on their knees, arching backward with their arms behind their back. This is where the process begins and must be entirely uninterrupted. The honey dipper like rods, henceforth referred to as "mucipilla", are gently lowered into the pool of Mucena and scooped upwards, held above the pool until it stops dripping. The mucipilla are then brought to the aspiring sorcerer's mouth and pushed up to their throat, where they are spun until all Mucena is off the mucipilla, depositing all the Mucena directly into the recipient's digestive track.
The process is repeated ad nauseam until the very last bit of Mucena is scooped from the pool. If a drop is left or spilled outside of the pool or person's body is described in the document "Magic System".
The journey back is usually all well and good, simply retracing the steps of the company, though there have been cases of companies losing their way due to some unknown horrors devouring entire tunnel systems or jumbling paths, making the previous caverns into mazes of misdirection and misfortune.
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