| Seraphim | Created on Friday, 24 October 2008 03:51 |
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When I was a boy, growing up in the West side of Onyang was difficult. A lot of wealthy couples had begun to settle in there and as most couples do, they started producing healthy, fat, pampered, obnoxious babies. Well perhaps the babies themselves weren't pampered or obnoxious just yet... but they certainly grew into annoying and stuck up snobs. My mother and father, the Baron Endsong, owned a modest incense shop in town and while they carried some of the most exotic incenses anyone could find, incense wasn't a booming business. However, the my mother loved them and the shop and my father kept it in our family as more of a favor to her than anything else. The well-to-do children though often came in to see me and my mother working their in the shop and poke fun at how lowly we looked as shopkeeps and how the Endsong family was worth next to nothing anymore. Their constant nagging began to build great anger in me. When my anger grew beyond my control, I would constantly get into fights. My father before me was of magical prowess and he taught me some of the fundamentals at a very early age. These tools I found very useful in my schoolyard fights, as I had the ability to hold a person still as I unleashed my rage upon them. After being kicked out of every school in the West side, my mother decided to home school me and my father kept up with my magical teachings, though he told me if I ever used them the way I was using them he'd cut me off and teach me nothing more he knew. My mother needed help though with me. I was wild and still ready to fight at the drop of a mean name. She reached out to the Monks, the calmest and most peaceful of all beings among us, and pleaded my case to them. She asked what could be done to calm my tortured soul. Most of the Monks weren't too keen on attempting to take me under their wing when since they knew I was going to be a problem child. One Monk though, an elderly man with a white beard and a mop of white hair, said he would accept such a challenge. Under his endlessly patient tutelage, I learned the values of meditation and understanding that resolution to such conflict stems from one's self, not from trying to beat resolution out with my fists. Upon learning of inner peace, a landmark I still strive for today, I began to truly focus myself on learning. I loved learning. The world has so many fascinating things to know about and we constantly find new things everyday that we didn't know before. The most fascinating thing I've learned so far though is a process called Libanomancy. It is the ability to predict the future through the smoke that comes from burning incense. My mother taught me this, to be honest, only a few Hyuls ago, but I've become very adept at it rather quickly I'd say. I'm still on that endless quest for knowledge. I love learning just as a hobby and the great thing about my hobby is that there's no way I could ever be at the end of that road. I've become very enamored with Divination though and would love to begin learning different methods beyond what I know now. - Seraphim Endsong |
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