~We are almost there. A small village, that has likely not heard yet of your escape. There, you will do as I have instructed, but feel free to move your hand on the brush as your dreams take you. Remember, that I cannot aid you until the deed is done. I must concentrate fully on preparing the energy for the spell that your paint will give form to.~

"Yes, Laozi, it will be done." Taote nodded, as the village came into view, and he entered.

Strange looks he was given, a rag tag wanderer coming to a small isolated village. Few would enter such a village as though it were a destination.

Taote unrolled the scroll of his ancestors. He had already committed the contents to his mind, to his dreams. The record of the past would be the birth of the future.

Ink was mixed with water, scooped from a tiny hand sized pool caught in a pockmarked rock. The brush was lightly dipped. The painting begun.

It was simple. Caligraphy. Handwriting in language the world did not remember.

A girl stopped, and looked. It was pretty! That gave her an idea. Something like that would make a fun design for dolly's dress. She had to go get her needle!

It began.

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1st Creature- Vibrant Dreamer, the first insidious virus introduced to Cyprus to counter the control of King Reginaldus the Fifth. Spread by sight of various sigils, artifacts, and other paraphanelia, this causes the subject to have vibrant dreams that King Reginaldus cannot read or affect, so frenzied and tumultuous they are. On the outside, the afflicted simply appear to have a spring in their step, they are inspired, they feel a little artistic idea coming on, maybe with this and that. Yes, that sounds like a good idea. And so, the affliction is spread further. And affliction it is, for if Laozi has need of them, they will be overtaken by a mindless frenzy, throwing themselves into battle without fear of death.

Pros- Subtle, Crafter, Fearless, Infectious
Cons- No battle skills, no equipment

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