Cel

- tldr; team arcanist's token shadetouched, runs a semi-quarantined lab that studies the shade's rules and how to prevent it from hurting dragonkind while it does what it's supposed to

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There's a first for everything, right?

There's a first breath of another world's atmosphere.

There's the first drops of impossible darkness, melted from the dome at the top of the world.

It begun well before they did. But when exactly? Nobody is sure. Someone's taken a piece of history with them. Joined the big hunting party in the sky sometime long ago, most likely.

Cel grew up toying with that idea, the beginnings of this world. Running their claws over the gap in its history, imagining just what might dwell there.



Where did it first touch the outer boundaries of the heavens? Hard to tell. There's all sorts of warps and tears and melted bits of starstuff eating into the canopy, and though the pattern is regular enough, there's no way of determining its point of origin.

...Yet.

There's a first for everything.

There's a first step into the Arcanist's gilded observatories.

There's a first glimpse at yourself in the observatory glass, all done up in your ill-fitting acolyte's robes.




There's a first glimpse through the lenses of a God at the fabric of the heavens.

There's a first rush of sensation from a limb that wasn't there mere seconds ago.







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