[table][row][sub][h2][color=181818][b]▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅[right]▅▅▅▅▅▅[/right][/b][/color][/h2][/sub][/row][/table][table][row][color=181818][sup][h1][center][img]https://imgur.com/Ye3golA.png[/img][/center][b] ▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅▅ [right]▅▅▅▅▅▅[/right][center][color=black]𝅗𝅥... 𝅘𝅥... 𝅘𝅥𝅮... 𝅘𝅥𝅯...[/color] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtQiVkoGu1w][color=FFDAB9]𝅗𝅥...[/color][/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGS4G93Q0GI][color=FFFACD]𝅘𝅥...[/color][/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppFJ0eJHjlw][color=FFFFE0]𝅘𝅥𝅮...[/color][/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTf_VYDqPuE][color=E0FFFF]𝅘𝅥𝅯...[/color][/url][/center] [/b][/h1][/sup][/color][/row][row][cell] [center][img]https://imgur.com/tqHqsaG.png[/img] [h3][color=fff79a]🙠 Magic lives within 🙢 🙡 the margins. 🙣[/color][/h3] [img]https://i.imgur.com/muZBav4.png[/img][/center] [color=2e2c2c].................................................................[/color][/cell][cell][center][color=181818][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][sup][h3][sup]█[/sup] [sub]█[/sub][/h3][/sup][/color][/center][/cell][cell] [sub][color=808080][i]In days of yore, long before you or I entered this world, it is said that magic flowed freely and naturally through all things. These stories persist in dusty old tomes, folktales, and increasingly fanciful recountings. They speak of wise and terrible wizards, known as Zenos, who stretched their power across continents, grasping nobility who basked in the light and life of powers ancient and arcane, and great and fiendish demons who sought to bathe the lands of men in eternal darkness. That was, those voices from the past insist, before the Death of Magic. The year is Dami 64, and the scholarship of any civilized nation rightly regards these primitive claims with rigorous skepticism. Even if we are to accept that once it was an invisible and fantastical application of magic that bound the brotherhood of man together, bands of steam, steel, and signal have superseded it now, and with growing efficacy. The engines of industry thunder forward in their tireless churn, producing the conveniences and opportunities of modernity. Towering smokestacks and stunning new edifices of iron, glass, and marble rise into the skies of grand old-world cities and their burgeoning new brethren across the Asperic Ocean. Where once travel was difficult, dangerous, and time-consuming, one can now move between Michaugo and Relouse in under a week, and this figure decreases with each passing year. Key to this dynamic growth has been the Mephisto Company, headquartered in Blackthistle Manor, a sprawling industrial park on the outskirts of Harrowend, capital of the United Kingdom of Greater Enth and Hendland. It has been sixty years since the discovery of the symbiotic protists known as manas by founder and genius inventor Thaddeus Lowell. Where the ancients put their workings down to something as vague and arcane as 'magic', the vast majority struggling to harness this immense boon, modern science has isolated their ability to make use of energies both manmade and naturally occurring. Thermal, mechanical, electromagnetic, chemical, and atomic, the Mephisto Company's tools and machines have allowed people to harness each by interfacing with their bloodstream-dwelling symbiotes. To say that this has revolutionized life the world across would be an understatement, and the rising tide has lifted all, lord and labourer alike. Now, one may take his fate into his own hands and purchase the ability to wield this great Gift of the most Holy Pentad. Yet, there are always outliers, ingrates, and rascals. There are those who decry the great work of the Mephisto Company and advocate for a return to the savage and unenlightened old ways of 'natural magic', where a privileged few ran roughshod over the rest, who subsisted in fear, darkness, and ignorance. It was against this backdrop that, early this morning, Thaddeus, the greatest mind of his age, was found dead in his sleep at the age of eighty-seven. May he rest in Eshiran's peace and Shune's light. No word has yet reached the public, and his five heirs have gathered at his country estate in Briarthorn Weald to read his will. They have also invited you. To what purpose remains unspoken. Already there are whisperings that foul play and grasping ambition bubble just beneath a placid surface, threatening to boil over.[/i][/color][/sub] [/cell][/row][/table][center][h1][sup][i][color=808080]A Legend of Sipenta[/color][/i][/sup][/h1][/center]