Prologue: The Green Magi

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There is a tower, an impossibly high tower filled with at least five hundred floors. The tower is of an ancient design not seen in the world for at least an age, and it appears to be constructed of a luminescent blue crystal. This tower is in the center of a clearing surrounded by trees; to the west the trees are an even mix of cherries and dogwoods flowering at the peak of their springtime beauty. To the east the trees are a mix of ash, cherry and oak, their leaves are a collage of autumn golds, reds and greens. If one were to look at the clearing from a bird's eye view it forms a perfect circle, like a clock-face with the impossibly high tower of a luminescent blue crystal at its center and the trees meeting at the 6 and 12 hand.

In a room within this tower sits a figure. At first one would mistake him for a statue. A statue of a muscular bald man crafted from a green metallic stone. However, who would dress a statue in crimson and ebon robes? And how can a statue have solid glowing blue orbs for eyes? Suddenly the statue moves, dispelling all doubt that the figure is indeed alive.

The figure had once been a man, but that was nearly eleven millennia ago. The man was once a high-mage of mythical Azlant and a scion of one of its great noble houses. He had served as a battlemage in the wars against the serpent folk. He had lead the Azlanti forces against the githyanki invasion of the red world of Akiton. He had debated with - and befriended - the radical Xin who had left Azlant and founded the kingdom of Thassilon, and he had once battled the madness and deviancy of a Fallen Angel's children at Xin's side. And the figure was a friend and ally of the then mortal Aroden, who would become a God by his own hand. The figure was also a planar traveler and he was away during Earthfall and much of the Age of Darkness exploring this universe and other more outre dimensions. In fact, it was during these travels and adventures that he had learned the arcane formula to gain immortality by infusing his body with the green star-metal from a Prince of demonkind, and it was from that infusion that the figure had earned the name "The Green Magi".

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