Mike's Back story
My twin brother I have always been always been interested in magic. My brother in particular was interested in the Mage Wars and black magic; what it was and why it was outlawed. I was always interested in white magic and often wondered if there was a way to unlink the souls of the departed making black magic less of an anathema. My brother an I drifted apart more and more. We were still friends it's true but we spent less and less time together. I still hung onto the wish of opening up all schools of magic again including black, but my brother with the help of some dubious "friends" acted on a more active level. Before he knew it he was involved with a most despicable cult. He was captured and put in jail. Meanwhile I had applied again and again to attend the College of Mava Elone but was denied entrance because of my expressed desire to study all the schools of magic, including black. Eventually Afton, a Dwarf from the Iron Mountains, agreed to take me as an apprentice. He bade me to speak aloud no more of my desire to learn about black magic but that we might speak about it privately. Afton as it turns out was as much a lover of knowledge as I was. He and he talked long into the nights sometimes about magic theory, the methods of dividing the schools of magic. I learned that not every civilization divided magic they way we did in the Northen City States. I began to wonder about combining colors of magic. I was just beginning this exploration of thought, if not deed when it was discovered by someone at the college (I suspect Afton's long time Rival Baird) that Afton owned a banned book. The Deep Dwarves of the Iron mountains were a most evil and corrupt civilization, but many years ago they appeared to just disappear leaving vast cities just abandoned. Afton was of many dwarves who helped explore and destroy these vast underground cities and he, at least was saddened at the loss of information that these destructive projects just burned away. He secreted away one of the books of magic studies from this ancient and despicable race. He brought that book with him and had it hiddenin his office. Once the book was found he, like my brother was arrested leaving me at a bit of a loss on how to proceed.
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