Zachary’s Journal
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Title: Zachary's Journal
Author: Zachary
Hiding isn't all that skillful. What I need to do is learn how to project sounds properly, so I can make people hear me "speak" through illusion.
Azunda began teaching me necromancy, but I question his methods. Most of the time he was just drugged up.
What I do involves the faith, it isn't actual necromancy. I suppose that makes me more of a cleric than a necromancer, I realized this after Azunda and Izrem pointed out the specifics of both. It would be possible for me to enslave something to speak for me, but that would be impractical. Or at least more impractical than using my mind to project an illusion of sound.
Ever since I left the desert I've been growing stronger, especially after I finished slavehood.
Although I've been passed from one failure master to another, I've grown on my own quite a bit. Even if he doesn't have a purpose for me and simply intends to kill me, I will be satisfied. This is a path I have chosen, I do not feel bound to fate or prophecy at all.
One thing that strikes me is how he said he would smash anything of Norture's if he felt it would amount to anything. If he decides I need to die, I can die proud.
I don't know what you mean by a good quality to have. Being satisfied with dying? Being free from fate?
I'm actually not satisfied with what I have achieved, Master is correct. I have accomplished very little, I want to become more than what I am now. But, should he kill me, the satisfaction will come from knowing he believes I could achieve, even if my path is cut short.
What do I have to fear? I feel I have far more to gain than lose. And if I lose, what am I losing? My life? Since leaving home and trying to find my own path, Kaelthir has been watching me and has been trying to figure out prophecies based on my life. She only said it once, but I could tell by her behavior that she was observing what I did.
She believes I have some sort of connection to Norture, and that a lot of things I am doing overlap with him. I'm sick of it, but I'm now free from it.
She doesn't like me, I'm barely part of the family. She would always use me for experiments too. What she wants is the arm Master removed, and my blood.
One of her experiments on me was using magic to etch the bone on my right humerus with runes of Norture's design, she wanted to see how it would effect a living thing. Even though it's not Norture's real bone, the runes are obviously active and work properly.
The process of etching the bone was also very, very painful. More painful than having my tongue cut out.
The runes were incomplete, they were part of a string that was meant to continue down my lower arm. Because of that, casting would cause energy to not flow properly and get trapped in my arm, it was hard for me to cast anything. The runes also started to kill me when I was in between worlds for my last slave task. I received a vision from it, the runes connected me to Oblivion enough to both kill me and to allow me to draw the memories of an ancestor.
That's where I learned how to finish the rune string, I had it tattooed onto my lower arm. As well, I got to see possibly the only thing more painful than Kaelthir etching my bone with magic. Norture's memory manifested somewhat, I was able to experience how he died. It took three days, full of horrific nightmares and searing pain. I only saw it because I was near death. It won't happen again.
Plus it is a learning experience.