01 - Dawn of Destiny

Ages - Age of Magic - A New Dawn

Another kind of magic represented in this age and area - that of control and power, and what the "good people", the mystics, did about it.

Introductory Review

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Julianne has returned from her battles in Arcadia (freeing the city from Adrien, with Hannah and Zeke), to find that tensions were high at the Mystics’ Temple. None of them had ever participated in politically motivated activities before, and they were investigating, through storied illusions, what might happen to them if they took various paths in the future. Some stories foretold the extinction of the mystics, some told of their survival and expansion, all IF…

Jonsen advocated being prepared for an attack, instituting self-defense training, passage of battle magic to all mystics. (Only a few had any battle-magic knowledge at that time).

Melanie advocated peace and non-involvement. Her theory was that to prepare for any war would be to invite it to their door. Her story told og Julianne’s activities in Arcadia, but she had not been properly informed, and her illusions were all incorrect. Julianne stopped her stores, and put her own truth in their minds, showing the reality of the Boulevard, the starvation and hungers of the people, Adrien’s cruelties to his subjects, and asked, “Was it not their responsibility to themselves and to the world to prepare to take action?” She won the vote, and plans for training were initiated. A meeting with the Senior staff would be held the next morning.