Relvinian – Hedge Maze
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Relvinian: Daemons can do our work
The eccentric mage
known only as Relvinian
has announced that his
current project will free
mankind forever from
menial labor. From the
steps of his laboratory,
he described to a
good-sized gathering what
daemons can do for the
human race. "With
daemons doing the manial
labor that takes up so
much of everyone's day,
people will be free to
follow more cerebral
paths," Relvinian said. "We
will be able to better
educate our society. Who
knows what new heights
we might attain!"
Daemons are usually associated with dark magic and other evil intentions. This would be the first attempt on record to bring them into a more positive light.
Some experts are concerned about the implications of a creaure borne of evil working daily with the citizens of Britannia. "I'm worried about our children. Our family values. What kind of a role model will these things be to our kids?" asked brother Andrew of Empath Abbey. "I mean kids will suddenly want to summon their own daemon to get out of making their beds, or going to the market. Children won't learn responsibility because here's this guardian of evil at their command. The next thing you know, they'll be hexing each other, or sending their daemon out to exact revenge on Little Willian for pulling a dog's tail."
Relvinian says that the fears brother Andrew and the others like him are completely unfounded.
"I've created a spell that will summon and totally control a daemon and all its actions, but it can only be cast by a Grandmaster Mage such as myself. We will then assign the daemon to a household and place a schedule in its mind. The creature will have no choice but to perform the assigned tasks." In response to questions about no-so-wellintentioned mages who get possession of the spell, Relvinian replied, "The spell drains the caster a great deal.
If one were to summon a daemon and charger it with malevolent tasks, it owuld be a simpe thing to discover who the offending mage was and bring him or her to answer for the deed."
Other concerns were brought to light by a group calling themselves Britannia Species United.
"Why must one group, in the case the humans, control the minds or actions of another? We already have enough warring between the species of Britannia, must we have slavery, too?" asked a BSU spokeperson.
"No creature should be able to control the minds of another, be they men, gargoyles or daemones. It just isn't right."
Relvinian goes Monday to further explain and demonstrate his theories to Lord British, who seems cautiously optimistic about the idea.
"I think the potential is immense," The Ruler of Britannia said in a conversation with Your Correspondent. "As you know, I have been actively promoting eight Virtues throughout Britannia, and freedom from menial labor would be a great step toward the education of the populace as a whole, both in the Virtues and in more standard curriculum of reading, writing and mathematics.
I think Relvinian's ideas could possibly benefit the citizens of Britannia as much as the consolidation of the city-states, and this the ending of their petty wars, did at the beginning of our current Enlightened Age. Sure there are a few bumps to smooth out, and I won't allow the plan to be adopted until the time that those problems are addressed, but I see promising things ahead."
Relvinian thought responsible for maze
The guild of Arcane
Arts has focused oa
considerable amount of
attention on the
mysterious maze that
appeared south of Britain
two days ago, and they
are finding more and
more evidence pointing to
Relvinian as the one
responsible for its
creation. "Relvinian is the
only one who is both
capable of the power
needed to make this thing
and whose whereabouts
are currently unkown,"
said Turnius, guildmaster
for the Guild. "And as it
sprang up whitin a week
of the disaster in Castle
Britannia, I suspect that
he's sequestered himself
in the middle of it and
doesn't want to come
out."
The maze appeared three days ago, replacing valuable farmland hand hunting habitat with what appears to be bits and pieces taken from all parts of Britannia.
Creatures from all over the land seem attracted to the maze and wander about aimlessly inside it, according to sources who have briefly entered the place. "There were all kinds of monsters, and a bunch of brigands seem to have taken to it pretty quickly too. I guess they're counting on being safe from the law."
Relvinian was the mage responsible for the daemon attack inside Castle Britannia, and is, therefore, ultimately to blame for the fourteen deaths that occured that night. Virgil Hassenm the lone survivor of the kitchen staff, who was crippled and seriously burned in the attack, said, "An army needs to storm that maze and hang that mage on a short rope from a tall tree." When asked if he thought Relvinian had planned the attack inside the castle, Virgil replied, "I don't know. Sure. And don't say that name in my presence again."
An official scouring party is being formed by Lord British to try and map the maze, and to find out if Relvinian is, literally, at the center of it.