Time to do it. Thoth the Atlantean Beast. Not 5 though... what number should he be?
I stood before Doreal, whose back faced me. He chanted his incantations, paying me no mind like a fool. I remember this moment well. It is... my defining failure. The moment my endless chase began. I called upon all the powers my existence could offer. Doreal was protected by a threefold barrier. Normally, such a thing would be a problem for a magus... I was no magus.
I was a living
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