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For weeks it had been going on. Ules is just talking quietly with some of his friends, and his hands begin to glow. He had been excusing himself every time it happened "I ahve to go for now", or "I will be right back". He always got a strange look, but his friends though nothing of it, Ules was a mage after all, such a thing seemed normal enough to them.

He walks off to the pig pens, they're the nearest easy targets. By the time he gets there, the glow has spread to his arms in most cases, and a faint voice is audible in his head:
"Kill the fools. They know nothing. They insult your magic. They insult you. They criticize your methods"
He strains at it, and immediately looks for a pig. Upon casting, the mana doesnt materialize directly on the target as usual. There is what one mgiht call a flow of the fire between him and the pigs. His magic is weak, and the pigs aren't unjured much. He rests for a second as the voice is gone, and gets up, returning to his friends.

This hasn't been the only thing going he thinks. Just after gannon's fire ritual, he had seemed to see itno gannon's head. He saw the ritual, how it was done, the fire in the cross, everything. As he had set it up, it happened again, he suddenly knew the exact chant, and wouldnt have to improvise.

One other time, as he looked into the well as sylveria had been playign with the water ripples, "She is always so easily amused" he thought. Suddenly his eyes began to glow, and the darkest bottoms of the well seemed perfectly lit, and even in slow motion. He saw the exact ripples in the water, the flow, and even his own reflection, yards below, perfectly.

A few days later, while fishing, as he began to be angered at his bad luck, his eyes started glowing again, he saw the movements of the fish, and could have caught every single one, but there were people near by. As quickly as he could, he covered his eyes, and ran, knowing he had to drain his mana, and sure enough, his hands began glowing.

Ules sits down and begins to think
"What could be wrong with me? It's obviously something to do with my mana, the fact that i am one of the few who's mana flows within them, instead of it being the stamina to control the mana in the outside world. But what? What is inside my head? I can't tell anyone. They wil lthink I am possessed, maybe a servant of the demon who has been leading attacks on the towns. I'll be banned from town, hunted. I haven't the strength to survive in the wild. I can't."
Unnoticed by him, his mana has increased, and his thoughts became tainted.
"The fools would lock me out! They wouldn't listen to me! What am i but a low rank mage?! They thinm me a fool, they dont understand how I taught myself, my hardships, the bloody imbeciles dont care! They would lock me in prison, without letting me have a word of defense! They deserve death!"
At this Ules realized that his mana had risen, his thoughts were becoming more tainted by the second, he tried to head for the pigs, but he couldn't. the force was taking cotnrol of him, if not slowly. His eyes became pure black, and he straine din pain as his mind tried to ward off the force inside him, but what was it? Ules saw sam through the window. As usual he was rearranging shop, and asking people to step away if they weren't buying. Immediately, he drained every bit of mana inside him at the time into sam, in the form of fire. Sam nearly dies, but doesnt seem to notice who did it.

After this, Ules returns to normal, but is frightened. He immediately runs away, trying to hide himself, as to not be caught.

What he didnt know was the cause. The cause was this:

several weeks earier, Korg was showing Ules a ritual towards an orcish fire god, Ules expected it to be a spirit serving the fire god, since the ritual actually did cause a disturbance; only something such as a spirit would actually cause such a thing. What is strange is that Korg then asks Ules to walk through a row of flames he had lit. Ules questions him, but decides to, what could it hurt? As he did so, his eyes became red and a bloodlust ran through him, but only for a brief moment. His mind immediately shut out most of the force, and Ules collapsed, not knowing what had happened. Korg said nothign as Ules awoke, besides "How yub feel?". He said fine, unaware that the essence of the fire was still in his mind, waiting for the mana to come up, so it could feed on it. The mana would be the key to take control. Normally Ules can fend off mind attacks, his essence was abnormally high, and he had a powerful mind, concious and subconcious. But the mana, the strange way it was in him, that was the key. When the mana was high enough, the demon would start trying to take control, Ules' hands would glow, and the contest would begin.

For the last days it had been happening. He noticed every day. It became increasingly more often that somethign of Ules' would begin to glow, but Miraci though nothing except that it msut be one of his friends harmless magic tricks. This did become a bother to him though, as soon as his earlier contact with Garett and Lazien had happened. The glowing seemed to catch his eye, like an error in the weaving of a carpet rug...

The day came when he and Sam were inside the shop, Sam was shooing off the pesky people who kept touching his things. He then seemed to collapse to the ground, unable to breath it seemed. Panicking, Miraci called upon PEN and MES to heal the man, but his magic was weak and not often practiced, so it did not work. He then jumped to the floor and forced a potion down Sam's throught. Sam choughed his way back to a standing position and gasped. Miraci was afraid the commotion and magic had attracted teh town guard by now, and looked out the window. He saw some wanderers on the street, and then he saw Ules running towards the eastern woods... He became extremely worried for his friend.

Ules walks away, having just being banished form varshikar for endangering them. the anger is building up inside him, feeding the spirit.

The spirit's plan worked. It granted Ules access to see form farw ay, his friends being slaughtered, and poisoned by spidrs, and slain by orcs. Ules' mana beign high, he had little resistance to it. He asked donal to accompany him in helpign the town. the two intercepted a few mercenaries heading into the east gate, and with a few blows of the hammer and time in an ice flame, they were dead. Ules' rage was going up. He went inside, helped to kil loff the spiders, healed some poisoned friends, and kileld a couple more mercenaries. He tried to stay hidden from members of varshikar and the skulls, and he though he succeeded when the battle was over. Unfortunately, Athian came up to him, and aske dhwat he was doing, Ules told the truth, not being one to lie to a friend, adn headed north. Athian foillowed, scolde Ules for his actions, and banished him from varshikar. The rage grows. The fire insiude him enjoyed it. It begins bonding with ules mind.


This wasnt the only thing lately. Ules had been having horrible mood swings, from angry, to sad, to even drunklike. He had been having more extrasensory abilities come and go. He spotted mary once or twice, crouched in deep wheat. He saw things far away that he shoudlnt. And overall, his rage builds.


Ules wlaks away from the castle, angrier at Athian than he had ever been at anyone else. "I try to help my friends and this is what it gets me" he thinks, through tainted thoughts of course. "Sooner or later, Athian will die! By my own two hands! One way or another". Ules stomped off, plotting his revenge, all control over himself finally gone.


((OOC note: please, people who have seen evidence of this in game, pelase post your experience, i want this to be interesting))

Cloak pulled about him, his eyes looking across the fire to a beautifull elven female Aristeaus is deep in thought.

Earlier this day a man whom lived within the northern lands aided the defence of the southern town of trollsbane, a noble deed in itself, but one which had cost them dearly.

The evidence of this showed on the ripped garment which Aristeaus wore, a gift from one of the shenoss family for this mans actions, but a gift which the man whom now sits at the fire repayed in kind.

' Arist what are we to do with him ' sighs the elfess in front of him.

' Quin my love, i think that you should deal with him yourself, i have to make contact with the orcs before this esculates. '

Both people look to each other, thier images getting blured by the flame .........

Ules learns later that Athian and Ariust had left all decision to Quinasa, and even after trying to reason with her, his ban stays. While the anger against Athian stil lexists, his rage is now centered on Quinasa. Every minute he seems to be bonding with the intruer in his mind, and he reaps the benefits. Increased sight, little bits of mind reading, and the experimentation of mind control. Ules knew what he had to do. Find someone with little essence inside them, and take their mind. From there, they will murder who Ules says, and no one wil lknow who's fault it was.

"Perfect" he thought to himself, as he leaned by the mill. "Until the time comes, I must act as myself. Should even suspicion arise, I have no chance".

He begins to think to himself "Who will I take control of?", "Who is possibly strong enough but has a weak enough defense in their mind that they will be easy to take control of?"

"There's Gannon, he can slay Athian, he's stronger. Especially if Athian is caught off gaurd, and alone. But what if my attempt to control him fails? He can sense presence in his mind, and would surely make waste of me"

"Perhapds I should practice a bit, on some lesser targets. ones with little ability to resist such a power. Perhaps Miraci, or Lazien. Those two are simple enough, but I cannot be sure. I had best go with someone of a simpler state of mind. Or perhaps i will wait, maybe my abilities will grow..."

Ules walks off, deep in thought, wondering exactly what he will do.

Pendar sat there willingly, and motioned for Ules to start. Ules' eyes began to glow, and turn red, and then pierced into pendar's mind. Upon doing so, pendar seemed to be in a bit of a trance, this showed Ules that he would do the same upon a later attempt of control.

He found himself in a vast array of thoughts, trying to focus on one or two. He ignored resisting areas of the mind, for he was just testing himself. He took one thought first, a simple one, seeming to be old, about how Pendar believed Ules' healing that one day saved his life. He absorbed the thought into his own, his head glowed, and he grabbed one more. This one was a little more vague, being about a dislike of lawlessness and undergaurding of the town of Trollsbane.

He couldnt keep going. He broke concentration, and began breathing heavily, and rest his hand upon his head, currently pounding. Pendar seemed to "wake up" immediately after, and asked of the success of the process. "I doubt I saved your life, and trollsbane isn't THAT lawless", Ules said with a smile, but still holding his head from pain. Pendargave a surprised look, and Ules questioned about further practice.....

Pendar sat there again, and Ules did a similar process, but something was different this time. Ules began sending commands.

"take a step towards me", he sent. Pendar, after a moment, took a step towards him. ules seemed content but decided it best to make sure.

"Run to the cross". His control wasnt much, since it took a minute or so before pendar ran there. Upon arriving however, Ules fell over, and lost his hold on pendar.


Pendar is released from the trance and asks ules of the success, though it being obvious to him sinve he was in a different spot.

"It worked, until you reached the cross", Ules mentioned. "perhaps since mind control would be considered dark magic, which a holy cross would oppose." Pendar nodded and they talked a bit, about trying it against resistance.

An elfess of young age sits near a wall, playing with the sticky pulp of the donf blade between her fingers. Occasionally she watches passersby curiously, and amongst them two men conversing. To her they seemed to be experimenting in magical complications, since glowing red eyes were something Sylveria didn't see often.

The first man did some eye-glowing, and Sylveria glanced to the second one to see if he was surprised as well. On the contrary, he seemed to go numb and dumb, a bit like the zombies past the north river that Sylveria stayed away from. She continued to watch with some interest.

The two did it again after a moment. Red-Eye Human stared at the Like-Zombie-Eye Human and made the little elfess wonder if they were angry or liked each other very much or only thinking about something in a strange manner. The Zombie-Gaze Human took a step, then suddenly turned tail and ran headlong for the cross.

Sylveria feared he would keep running and bash his head straight into the cross as a zombie would to a wall.

Fortunately, the Dumb-Numb Human stopped. Unfortunately, the Cooking-Fire-Eye Human also ran to the cross, and though he didn't bash into it, he toppled over like a sack of flour when he stopped.

Sylveria wouldn't have silently giggled if it didn't look so comical.

Walking from the cross, the rage hit a peak never met before. Ules eyes glowed a shade of red the same as the blood on his robe. He shouted as loud as he could "I will take the idiot's mind, and force him to bloody himself!". Ules knew he'd need practice, just in case, whether the participants he practiced with were willing, or not.....

Miraci was able to hide himself from being mentally sensed because of his strong mind. He could hide himself for sure, he knew, but whether he could defend himself the same way if it was found, he knew not. Ules wanted some person to do the evil upon Gorge, but whom it was he didnt know.
One time when his mind had been found before while he was near the tavern, he had screamed in pain. Not physical pain, but emotional. He knew against such willpower he could not keep himself from doing the things he was told, so he had attempted to at least get his body where it could do nothing. He froze himself half to death so he couldnt move, but he had nearly died afterwards.
He would not risk the same mental takeover in a place where he couldnt prevent himself from doing the commanded things. He would not be seeing Ules again for a very... very long time.

Goodbye Ules...

THe spirit is strengthening. Ules anger increases. His mana flow more clear. exactly what it needs. All it needs now to materialize, is a door out of Ules' mind, and then it will be in complete control, able to take Ules mana and use it for it's own, create it's own demands. But...unlike what planned, the spirit was in a strong mind, the essence of ules fused with it. The spirit wants gorge dead. It wants all magic haters dead.

If one knew what was happening, it would be clear that it would be soon. Ules skin has tinted red, the mana flowing within him visible now. He acts angrily towards anyone. The time will soon come, and the spirit might not be tamable at that point.....at least not if it still has access to Ules...

Ules gets worse. His eyes become blood red, and he seems to glow. The birds and a few other animals seem to know something is wrong and get away. The clouds darken overhead. Ules keels over, blood coming from his mouth, glowing, with an evil smiles.

At that point his eyes go pale and he becomes inatimate. A flickering starts above him, and eventually begins swirling. The glow surrounds him, and forms itself into a ghostlike shape, and turns a bright red color.

"Yes, I am free!", it thought. Ules moved same as the spirit, and constantly muttered small words, "death...kill...hate". A fool attacks the spirit, and it laughs. "Yes, your anger feeds me!". After enjoying it for a few moments it laughs, grabs the human, and sucks the life out of him.

Ules' friends were astonished, and began trying to get though to him. "Remember learning magic with me?", Jeremy said in a hopeful mannery. "You got me my first staves", miraci stated with a scared look for his friend. Ules' eyes became normal for a second; he was still there.

Just as another tried attacking the spirit as well, a few more plees eventually got through to Ules, and the spirit vanished as Ules got control.

As soon as it left Ules went pale and collapsed. Upon awakening he seemed disoriented and scared. From his muttering it was established that Ules had no memory since he was kileld by gorge. He mumbled some more and eventually fell asleep......

-moved-

(flashback at the event with Ules)

He watched this spirit being fultily attacked by men, and observed that it epresented everthing that the Evil One did himself. Hate... it's job description is simple. Kill, steal, and destroy. Miraci knew that just the opposite would have Ules rid of it forever. He then quoted scriptures that he had memorized at childhood.

The fruits of the spirit... Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control... Against such there is NO LAW!!

He didnt know whether it was this, or something else said, but just after, the spirit dissappeared. Miraci watched Ules collapse, then carried him into the shop, where he tended to him. He liked to think of himself by then, an official Healer. Jeremy had said that basically anyone able to heal is a Healer, but how much more dramatic is a straightened hand than a healed heart? Anyways this random event didn't mean that he and the others could't begin thier life with Ules where they had left off. This is just what he needed... Now, where is that Ceigen Miraci was assigned to take care of...?