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It strikes me that mental and physical are not quite—but almost—mirroring the paths taken by Aenureir's more famous cousins. To imitate Tyrion through strength of arms, or to imitate Teclis through rapacious intellect, and in doing so attempt to control the curse.

Life and death, meanwhile, are a rejection of the curse and its destiny—life, to find meaning, solace, and simple joy through companionship and friends, or death, to subvert the laws of fate through mastery of Shyish.

Four paths to defy one destiny—warrior, scholar, socialite, mystic.

Honestly, I like all of them, so I'm going to vote for the ones that are not winning.

[x] Life
[x] Physical
 
H2F2 said:
I remember the idea of mixing Azyr and Dhara for magic that resists fate appeared in the discussion. I think this is the best chance to explore this given the attitude towards the fate of the Aenureir.
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I like the way you think friend. Aenureir can be the unique hero to Aelsabrim's unique lord. Although we'd have to change the lore name... Lore of Denial works, I think it was a contender anyway.
 
Voting for the two I want to see most, while I like Life, I am quite interested in seeing how an elven mind adapts the principles of death and maybe eventually necromancy when they seemingly don't have any connections to traditional elven thought on magic.

(Let me correct this slightly - while they're clearly knowledgeable on it I don't think they're in a state where they believe it in totality / have entirely internalized that line of thought on it. They're aware that it's the wind of endings but their primary focus in relation to that knowledge is seemingly interest in how that differs for humans and elves, in a way that indicates they don't seem to believe that the human interpretation is necessarily lesser)

[x] Death
[x] Mental
 
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[X] Death
"And lo, he shall rule with a dark hand and his shadow shall touch upon every land. Steel will be his skin and fire will be his blood, in hatred will he conquer all before him. No blade forged of Man, Dwarf or Elf shall endure him fear. Though will it come to pass that the firstborn son of noble blood shall rise to power. The child will be learned in the darkest arts and he will raise an army of terrible beasts. Thus will the Dark King fall, slain by neither blade nor arrow but by a sorcerous power of darkest magic and so shall his body be consumed in the flames and for all eternity burn." - The Prophecy of Demise

"Let's teach you necromancy my boy!" - Uncle Phat to Aenureirm, a firstborn son of the line of Line of Aenarion
 
[X] Death

The Elves need to get with the times!

Necromancy fuelled disasters have been all the rage amongst the Humans lately. Even the Orcs (well, one Orc at least) have gotten into it. Can't afford to be shown up by a Greenskin of all things, it just wouldn't do!
 
[X] Life
[X] Mental

I really love the Death option but Aenureir's many times great uncle already has grudge against them just because of their blood. Teaching them magic may cause alarm bells in Naggaroth due to Prophecy of Demise. I don't want to risk making Aenureir's life harder than it is.

Edit: Sorry for the pronouns, my bad.
 
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The prophecy of demise bit is really fun, but I've seen this more than a few times now so I want to reiterate that Aenureir uses They/Them pronouns. I'm not sure if the prophecy would apply to them, or any gendered terms would- I know of nonbinary people that are comfortable referring to themselves under some gendered terms and nonbinary people that aren't, but at least in the case of pronouns we definitely shouldn't be using He/Him when talking about them.
 
[ ] Mental
[X] Death

I could go either way here.

EDIT: Discussion of Malekith and related prophecies has convinced me that Death is the more interesting choice.
 
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