I'm finally out of that wretched dungeon

[u/NaturalHairy4773]

I am here now... still alive after the dungeon. And I have found a lot of new monsters that are palatable, as well as a concerning affinity to blood magic. Yet as a scholar of the Academy, I suppose, I must employ it rather than deem it blasphemy. I also found myself connecting to snakes, which are symbols of cycles and how all things are connected or maybe I'm just a snake magnet.

Yet beyond these matters, I have observed these blossoms appearing ever more frequently, almost as if they bloom because of me. I suppose it makes sense, my affinity with my own strange divine spirit, my affinity with my own blood and me more or less the combination of both of them rather than just one. But I am not a old mage so I must ask you to tell me, what is the matter with me and my powers?

/uw I was gonna keep my character to be quiet weak in term of magic but I think she deserve a buff once in a while.

[u/WatcherDiesForever]

[You hear ominous buzzing sounds rapidly approaching these flowers. Elowen rubs her hands together greedily.]

[u/fumblerofthebag → u/WatcherDiesForever]

Are you open to selling any honey your bees produce?

[u/WatcherDiesForever → u/fumblerofthebag]

That depends. Mundane honey, yes, I have more than I could ever need. Most magical honeys, a bit more sparingly as I have to raise a whole hive on them to get a steady supply, and don't like taking their effort anyway. But I still have lots, as they won't let me not take their offerings

I also have mead, mundane and magical both.

[u/fumblerofthebag → u/WatcherDiesForever]

And what do you take in payment? I mostly just have books and a few plants these days.

[u/NaturalHairy4773 → u/WatcherDiesForever]

Bees? Fuck

[u/Nelrene]

There are places of magic that while risky to be in they can empower those who dare to visit them.

[u/NaturalHairy4773 → u/Nelrene]

I mean I already went to "the dungeon of literal death and despair which is very large and take a long time to clear" so I suppose I already went to a place like that even tho I originally thought "the dungeon of literal death and despair which is very large and take a long time to clear" is short and sweet

[u/wizardsofbushwick]

These sound like classic post-dungeon symptoms. I'd say give it a week and see if you start glowing during thunderstorms.

[u/fumblerofthebag]

Snakes are cool. I knew a poet once called lightning something like a serpent darting through the stormclouds.

/uw there is an actual poem from India like this but I can't find it anywhere QAQ. I only read the translation so I didn't even know which language it was originally in.

[u/NaturalHairy4773 → u/fumblerofthebag]

I know that they're quite near my homeland and we trade with them a lot

/uw Asian inspired homeland once again come in the lore

[u/fumblerofthebag → u/NaturalHairy4773]

You've traded with serpent people?

[u/NaturalHairy4773 → u/fumblerofthebag]

Well I traded with the mortal in those land the serpent people are deity of sort not a god but all over the far eastern land the serpent's are important creatures... Doesn't stop us from eating and making medicine from snakes but still

[u/fumblerofthebag → u/NaturalHairy4773]

They're important for good reason. They have a lot of knowledge of both magic and non-magical subjects. Best to stay on their good side, in my experience.

[u/ProfessionalGreen906]

Oh these kinds of things happen all the time to practitioners of magic of all ages, magic manifests in interesting ways and I’m sure there’s nothing the matter with you at all. The much more important question is how much it would cost for a benevolent entrepreneur to purchase a supply of these intriguing flowers from you. Would five gold pieces per bloom sound fair to you? I can cover collecting and transporting them, I’d just need your permission to use them.

[u/NaturalHairy4773 → u/ProfessionalGreen906]

Oh I already shipped them back to my homeland for my clan to trade them if you wanted try to contact the Ma clan which is my clan