Name: Gilraen
Race: Elf
Class: Water Mage
Gilraen, an elven mage of noble birth in their society had the perfect life, she was beautiful, she had a loving family, she was a student of the arts of magic at the Elven Magic University where she was the apprentice of the headmaster, he was amazed by her born talent for magic that he decided to take her as his apprentice in order to help her understand and control this raw power of hers. For her, just being near water relaxed her, empowered her, it was as if she was part of the element in perfect harmony.
Time passed while she studied magic and learned to control abilities, she was now in the point of improving her powers.
One day there came a mysterious man at the university, a handsome man, that's what Gilraen thought when she saw him. The man was looking for the headmaster, he sought to lend his services as a professor at the university, the grandmaster tested him and decided that he is indeed worthy enough to teach his students.
To Gilraen's joy he was also a water mage, so she decided to practice her magic with him as well. As they practiced together, she grew more fond of him, eventually falling in love with her teacher (the headmaster was unaware of this). They started to meet in secret, her love for him growing stronger with each passing day, at times she thought that this attraction for him was uncontrollable, she felt as if she was being drawn to him.
More time passed and the headmaster started noticing changes in her behaviour and more important he noticed something peculiar about the new professor's magic, at a demonstration he noticed a slight darkness in his water elementals, at first he thought it was something related to the fatigue of summoning five water elementals at once, but with time the headmaster noticed that odd darkness more and more. He started to research this matter in the university's library and after a while he found out something disturbing, he looked for Gilraen to let her know of his discovery, but when he reached her room he saw a terrifying scene.
While the headmaster was conducting his research, the professor came to Gilraen in order to teach her a summoning ritual, she agreed and they started the ritual. This was no ordinary ritual, this one demanded blood, and she did not understand why it was so, he explained that it was a very powerful ritual that mana alone cannot support it. She agreed to continue, but she felt as if she didn't agree on her own, like something was forcing her to do that; when the professor was reading the enchantment for the ritual she fainted only to wake up in the middle of their summoning ritual, that's when she realized that his ritual was not made for summoning, she tried to move, but she couldn't, she was lying down on her back paralyzed. While she was struggling the fake professor revealed himself to be a corrupted mage (corrupted mages were fallen archmages, an archmage is a mage that can control all the elements and corrupted mages are the ones that sought to gain more power and instead fell under its control becoming chaotic beings that seek to corrupt others and bring about chaos, but their numbers are few and therefore they are forced into hiding) and he intended to corrupt her in order to increase their ranks, his choice was peculiar since she was only a water mage, but he wanted to use her natural attunement to the element of water in order to improve her powers and increase their ranks. While she lay there on the ground, she felt as if her sanity was slipping away and how that dark power was starting to take over her mind and body, struggling was all she could do to avoid the corruption, there was no way she would succumb to this without a fight, but fighting an invisible opponent that can reach into the very depths of your mind and soul is hard if not impossible to fight. The moment the headmaster entered her room was when she almost gave up her hope, his arrival was most fortuitous for he interrupted the ritual in its most critical period.
While she lay down powerless and exhausted from trying to remain herself, a fierce battle started between her master and the corrupted mage, the headmaster was old but proud, he knew he would not win a battle that would last too long against a young and experienced opponent so he decided to attack him all out, as the battle continued she watched from the ground as her master was being slowly defeated, but he showed no such signs, not in front of her so he continued his struggle (a battle between two powerful and experienced mages is truly a sight, the amount of power and destruction they have at their disposal is limitless, especially if both are archmages such as this particular situation). After a long fought battle, the headmaster gravely injured fell on his knees and his opponent injured as well was about to end this fight and kill the headmaster, but that's when something happened, Gilraen regained a part of herself and despite being weakened she stood up and a massive overflow of power came from her direction, she lost control of her powers and was destroying everything around. She concentrated all her might and attacked with the last of her strength the corrupted mage that did not have time to react and was obliterated in the wake of her rage.
After that she fell to the ground unconscious only to take up in the infirmary next to her headmaster, he smiled to her while holding his kind gentle hand on her face and said to her: "You are safe now my child!" She was never to be the same again, even though the ritual was not finished and she did not succumb to the corruption, she was forever marked by it both body and soul, her eyes had changed their colors from a beautiful shade of ocean blue to dark purple, her once golden blonde hair was now red as blood and there were other bodily changes that took place, her skin was now darker and her right had looked as if it was made of stony scales this appearance was on her right shoulder as well, she now had scars all over her body due to the premature end of the ritual.
She was now a lost soul, she lost the purity of her element and in the same time not a fallen mage, she was the first and probably last of her kind.
Edited by Gilraen, 02 February 2015 - 17:25.