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Magic War

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The Shifter

Mahasiva is a shifter. Shifters can channel energy and transfer it to somewhere else. This means they are not creating anything, they take what is there. The warmer therefore an environment is, the easier it is for a shifter to collect and transfer energy. They work with heat and cold, by either adding or taking away the energy. They can also cause things to move by adding energy.

Shifter need a lot of training before they can handle the different forms of energy and mostly specialise in one or two different types.

Mahasiva is a powerful shifter but he is hot tempered and impatient. He often stands in his own way and fails because of his impulsiveness. Here he is duelling with his arch enemy Ka'raina. By the looks of it he's not taking things too seriously – which annoys Ka'raina terribly. Far less powerful, but technically a lot better, she might just be about to teach Mahasiva a lesson. If she does not fall into the same trap and loses her temper.

Mahasiva's story is similar to many of the shifters. Untrained, his temper caused havoc whenever he got upset, which happened a lot. His village ordered his family to either leave or get rid of the boy. His father wanted to sell him to a passing trader, who recognised the power within the boy but his mother refused and left her husband at night, taking only her son with her. She knew that the boy needed tuition as quickly as possible or he would become a serious threat to his environment and to himself.

Mahadevy tried to join a group of travellers about to enter the Black Forest, but Mahasiva betrayed his powers and the group refused to accept them in their midst. Mahadevy and her son had to brave the forest on their own.

A single woman with child was like an invitation for the outlaws. Mahasiva, then only three years old, did not know what was happening to his mother but he reacted to her terrified screams. He was mercifully too young to understand what he did to the outlaws and his mother alike.

A hermit found him sleeping among the ashes of a fire that had incinerated everything within a stone's throw. Although he knew what he was taking with him, he picked up the sleeping child and carried him back to his cave, where he began to educate the boy.

Mahasiva learned to tame his powers under the guidance of the hermit, but when he reached the age of the change the hermit knew that his charge needed expert guidance. So Mahasiva was sent to the School of Chafeed, on the Hidden Island. On the way he saved a purrawk from the claws of a drake and nursed the wounded animal back to health. Once healed he set it free but the purrawk chose to remain with him.

He doesn't know it yet, but his companion will help him to come into his full potential.

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BusinessMonkey's avatar
Cool stuff. I like how one of the people in the back ground has her staff out like "What do I do?! What do I do?!"