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| Author: | Saaron |
| Summary: | Sandy answers Nunuzac's letter, explaining why he became a warlock in a two pages letter. |
| Rating: | T for Teen |
Hi Nunuzac,
I don’t know if you’ll read this with the druid helping you, but tell them you’re both doing great with writing in Common. And yeah, that language is the worst, nothing makes sense! I still have no idea why I should write “cough” the same way I write “dough” and not “cof” and “dow”! So many unnecessary letters! I like this idea of an empty “o”. We don’t need an empty “o” in words! Remove them and make it easier for everyone, people in charge of the Common language!
Oh no, poor little whelps… I hope you’ll save as many of them as possible (and if you need to find new homes for these baby dragons you can bring me one. I’ll take good care of it)! Good luck with your mission, it’s an important one for sure.
Yeah, I get why you’d think that of warlocks. A lot of us aren’t very nice, I know that!
So, why did I choose to become a warlock… There are two answers! Both are true but one might sound a little bad and the other a little better, so I’ll start with the worst one!
I thought it would be easy. My mom’s a mage at the Kirin Tor, so I was studying Arcane magic with her. It’s so much to learn and remember, though! It was always very difficult for me, even the basic spells. Plus, one of my big brothers is really good at it, I grew a little tired of him being condescending about his skills and the lack of mine. And then I thought about becoming a warlock, which sounded easier. There is still a lot of stuff to study of course, but the deals you make with demons make you stronger a lot faster than any teaching method from the Kirin Tor! I know it sounds bad because it just looks like I chose the easy way out, but that’s not the only reason!
The other reason is… okay, it’s going to sound like I’m writing an autobiography but I swear this stuff is important! My mom isn’t my birth mom, and before she found me as a baby, a dwarf from the Wildhammer Clan found me first. He’s a shaman, so he speaks and works with the elements and everything! He often came by to visit growing up, so I consider him one of my brothers as well, and we were super, super close! Some time before I got completely discouraged with Arcane magic, he went missing… Honestly, it’s probably one of the reasons why I lost any interest in learning in the first place! It made me a little sad.
Anyway, I kind of wanted to be like him but no one was willing to teach me how to be a shaman, of course. They were either all with the Horde or neutral but kind of secretive about their stuff, like the Wildhammers. So, when I started considering being a warlock, I thought about the similarities between the two. Working with powerful beings, using their power, making deals with them… And shamans, they work to bring peace to the elements, to calm them down when they’re angry, or stop them when they’re dangerous. I saw the elements when they get mad, and my brother told me all about it, so I know how bad it can get. That made me think “To the first who came to be on Azeroth and who didn’t have shamans, the elements must have been terrifying! It must have taken someone who tried to understand them. That person must have found a way to appease them to create a better, safer world for everyone”.
So… I guess I kind of want to be that for demons! I want to find a way to find peace. We’ll never kill or trap them all, which means we have to find another way if we want to stop them from destroying all the worlds! I want to find a way to free them of corruption so they can make their own choices, and, hopefully, they’ll choose to do good, then. For the sake of everyone!
Oh, there’s also a third reason… kind of. My birth mom is a warlock and she was even before my birth. She says I’ve got being a warlock in my blood. That’s maybe why it’s coming to me more easily! But I don’t know, I’m still not sure about anything she’s told me.
As for how I protect myself… Uh. I'm surrounded by great people, who will be able to stop me if I get all mean or something! You can't manipulate someone into being mean if they're happy with the people around them!
And my demons couldn’t hurt me even if they took all my Fel magic from me! Mom always said that a mage who can’t fight without magic is a bad one. You just need to silence them and they can’t do anything anymore. She always trained us to fight with our fists, too! You know Dane Atley? I fistfought him, once, just for fun, and I came really close to winning! And that guy eats demons for breakfast, so if I could almost defeat him, I can defeat my demons!
Also, I don’t think I’ll be attracting more demons than I want to with my rituals, and even if do, it won't be a problem, don’t worry! I have to follow strict rules with the Company. For example, I can’t summon demons in good people’s settlements, so even if I were to do an oopsie, it’d be in the middle of nowhere with other adventurers around. Nothing to fear there!
Honestly, if you want to learn about how warlocks work in the Alliance, I might not be the right person for that! The Company wants me to take lessons with a professor again because I did do an oopsie recently. I’d say I’m not a, uh… typical warlock! I’d really love to be friends, though!
If you still want to ask me about more stuff, feel free! We can also meet after you’re done with your mission, (and maybe with a baby dragon)!
Good luck with that quest, I'll see you soon,
Gausanders Spellbond
PS: I realize that I don't even know what your role is in the Company! Are you a priestess? A vindicator?