Cob, the Wandering Dwarf
[@Dealdric] - Deruga
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The dwarf paused for a moment, "I suggest turning around, and going back home. Nothing good comes from even getting close to magic." he said, poking the rock he was tending to. After a few moment, "But no, I haven't seen nobody. And I won't be dumb enough to stick around here if I saw a magician." 
 
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[color=DAA520][b]Ferron[/b][/color]
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Ferron had rallied the dwarves, and begun the preparations for the formation of a militia. However, the fear spiral still posed a lingering threat. It had reached deep enough in the earth to influence ore, however he was not sure how deep that the aura descended. This situation required further investigation, however he was still required at the village and a dwarf was ill-suited for the task at hand. 

Using his power, he pulled mercury from the earth, and with a name, gave it purpose, [color=DAA520]"Bishop."[/color] It was an amorphous blob of quicksilver, designed to easily traverse even the deepest depths of the earth. He gave its instruction, and it went out achieving them. 

It sank into the ground, and began to move towards the fear spiral, guided by divine purpose. Once it reached the divine spiral, it purposefully avoided entering the aura, and begun to descend. It went deeper, and deeper until finally it had reached the core of the earth. 

Bishop then reached a part of its formless body into the aura, and began to reach its senses into the aura, and imprinting it on the liquid metal. The afflicted area of its body then broke off from the main mass, and turned black, and began to rush away from the aura. As it did, the main mass engulfed the smaller mass and then brought it back to its creator. 

Once it had returned to the colony, it handed Ferron the fear-touched mercury. It then proceeded to form into a ball, and began to expel whatever afflicted material it had accumulated from its journey that was otherwise unaccounted for, until it was once again pure metal-aligned mercury. 

Ferron examined the corrupted mercury, and begun to see what the construct sensed. He pushed his way passed the fear essence, and began to form a mental picture. At first, he believed that the spiral had reached down to the core itself, which was a major concern, however then he realized something even more troublesome, that the spiral was growing from the core itself. The material of the spiral was the same as that of the core, and they seem perfectly fused together. After realizing this, he then desperately searched through the material to see if there was any trace of another divine signature, but found none. However, that could be as a result of the fear auras capacity to alter the nature of those within its aura. 

Ferron took all of the afflicted pieces of Bishop, and gathered them together and placed them in a lead pot that he had created for this purpose. He would need to see if the process of corruption was reversible.