Online:The Final Lesson, Part 2

Much time passed. In the 480th year of the First Era, the great Aiden Direnni won many battles against the Alessian horde. Many passages and routes that had once been closed were open again. Loreth, now no longer young, was able to return to Dalak.

When at last he found his way to his Master's old hovel, he saw candles of mourning lit in all the trees surrounding. Even before he knocked on the door and met his old fellow student Uthrac, Loreth knew that Dalak had died.

“It was only a few months ago,” said Uthrac, after embracing his friend. “He talked of you every day of every year you were away. Somehow he knew that you had not preceded him to the world beyond. He told me that you would come back.”

The gray-haired men sat before the fire and reminisced of the old days. The sad truth was that they both discovered how different they had become. Uthrac spoke of carrying on the Master's work, while Loreth described his new discoveries. They left one another that day, each shaking his head, destined to never see one another again.

In the years ahead, before they left the mortal world to join their great teacher Dalak, they both achieved their desires. Uthrac went on to become a respected if minor enchanter in the service of Clan Direnni. Loreth took the skills he had learned on his own and used them to fashion the Balac-Thurm, the Staff of Chaos.

My boys, the lesson is that you have to learn from a teacher to avoid those small but essential errors that claimed the life of such self-taught enchanters as Peothil. And yet, the only way to become truly great is to try all the possibilities on your own.

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Acima: The Final Lesson

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