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.

At the Senior Staff meeting, Julianne discusses her impending pilgrimage to find Artemis (a mystic who had gone off on his own over five years ago), and to find out “what’s out there”. Danil discusses talks about self-defense training and security precautions, etc. Margit summed up the meeting with “Julianne will led them into a fight they were too scared to start and one they needed to start to be able to live with themselves.”

At a meeting after the dismissal of Donna and her group Charles, Melanie, Jonsen, Danil, and Gunther), all voice their concerns for group while she is gone.

Julianne tells them of her warped mind, and of Rogan. Danil worries about the strength of her shields, Melanie and all agree that they would need to hunker down, close the doors, and lay low until she came back. Danil proposed that all who knew any battle magic would pass it along, Self-defense training to be started (half of mystics ready in a month), that they needed more recruits, and that a message should be sent to Arcadia about donna (Julianne to send).

Julianne would be leaving the next day – she NEEDS solitude after rescue of Arcadias, death of Selah, and Donna’a appearance. Would try to find out more about Rogan, find Artemis who had been an expert in battle magic when he left.

If Donna returned while she was gone, lock the doors and retreat to the safety of the Temple.