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The Dales are a respected family of Druids, alchemists, and traders among the Clans. The traders and alchemists bring supplies and medicine from clan to clan, while the Druids protect their own clan from the beasts that call the woodlands home. Though Olo Dale was born to a trader father and a woodcarver mother, he always took more interest in the Druids of his family, especially his grandfather Perrin Dale. As a child would spend as much time as he could at his grandfather’s small hut, watching in awe as he used his ancient magics to perform all manner of miracle. In his early teens, Olo pleaded with Perrin to take him on as his apprentice many times, wishing to harness the powerful arts of the Druid to smite evil and explore the world, only for his grandfather to repeatedly refuse to teach him even basic spells. This lasted for many years until, on Olo’s 18th birthday, Perrin agreed to teach his grandson in the ways of the Druid, admitting that he had come to admire the boy’s determination and perseverance in the face of repeated rejection. And so, despite his parent’s initial protests, Olo began to train in the Druidic arts. | The Dales are a respected family of Druids, alchemists, and traders among the Clans. The traders and alchemists bring supplies and medicine from clan to clan, while the Druids protect their own clan from the beasts that call the woodlands home. Though Olo Dale was born to a trader father and a woodcarver mother, he always took more interest in the Druids of his family, especially his grandfather Perrin Dale. As a child would spend as much time as he could at his grandfather’s small hut, watching in awe as he used his ancient magics to perform all manner of miracle. In his early teens, Olo pleaded with Perrin to take him on as his apprentice many times, wishing to harness the powerful arts of the Druid to smite evil and explore the world, only for his grandfather to repeatedly refuse to teach him even basic spells. This lasted for many years until, on Olo’s 18th birthday, Perrin agreed to teach his grandson in the ways of the Druid, admitting that he had come to admire the boy’s determination and perseverance in the face of repeated rejection. And so, despite his parent’s initial protests, Olo began to train in the Druidic arts. | ||
| − | The lessons were hard and seemingly random at first – taking a jug of water to the other side of the village without spilling a single drop, memorising meaningless symbols and drawing them from memory the next day, and keeping a fire burning in the pouring rain, just to name a few – but Olo never gave up, no matter how much he wanted to quit and just become a trader. Eventually, Olo began to excel at his lessons and completed many with relative ease when he realised just what Perrin was trying to teach him with | + | The lessons were hard and seemingly random at first – taking a jug of water to the other side of the village without spilling a single drop, memorising meaningless symbols and drawing them from memory the next day, and keeping a fire burning in the pouring rain, just to name a few – but Olo never gave up, no matter how much he wanted to quit and just become a trader. Eventually, Olo began to excel at his lessons and completed many with relative ease when he realised just what Perrin was trying to teach him with ease – keep calm under extreme pressure or you’ll just make things worse for yourself, use simple memorisation methods to help you remember something that would otherwise never stick in your mind, and look to the world around you in order to find solutions to problems you could never solve on your own. It was then that the real training started. |
Thanks to his earlier lessons, Olo quickly mastered the Druidic language and complex spell incantations, and soon he was a fully-fledged Druid (a novice Druid, but a Druid nonetheless) in the eyes of his family and the rest of the clan. Even his parents admitted that he seemed better suited to the role of a mystic protector than he did as a trader. Olo stayed with his grandfather for several more years, learning much from the old man under that time and becoming a skilled magic-user in his own right, but Perrin knew that the boy still longed to see the world beyond his clan and so decided to teach him one final lesson – the Balance. | Thanks to his earlier lessons, Olo quickly mastered the Druidic language and complex spell incantations, and soon he was a fully-fledged Druid (a novice Druid, but a Druid nonetheless) in the eyes of his family and the rest of the clan. Even his parents admitted that he seemed better suited to the role of a mystic protector than he did as a trader. Olo stayed with his grandfather for several more years, learning much from the old man under that time and becoming a skilled magic-user in his own right, but Perrin knew that the boy still longed to see the world beyond his clan and so decided to teach him one final lesson – the Balance. | ||
