paladinlost | 20th moon [video/action]

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20th moon [video/action]

Everyone, good evening. I hope this day finds you in good health.

However, this is not a social call but an inquiry. Does anyone intend to leave Cherrygrove for Violet soon? I have offered to escort a few people there, and I was wondering if anyone would like to join us. Having access to a Pokémon large enough to ride would be optimal, but we can share if it comes down to it. We would depart tomorrow morning. If you are interested, please contact me on the Pokégear or in person. I am currently at the inn, and would be more than happy to answer any questions.

[He can indeed be found around the inn, brushing his Arcanine's fur. If you have any questions, ask away!]

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I can think of worse names than one taken after a weapon. Though I always preferred swords and axes, myself.

Most people do. But at the right distance, a lance could be more lethal than both of them.

I know that well. My best friend can be rather dangerous with them, especially in the air.

If you ask me, there's nothing more dangerous than a spear thrown by the right person. Particularly from midair.

Especially a spear with the right type of elemental power, against a monster that dislikes that particular element. That one blessed spear we once found was particularly efficient.

My own wasn't exactly blessed. Kind of the exact opposite.

What do you mean, 'elemental power'?

He had a cursed spear, too, but it worked terribly against the undead. He soon replaced it.

My world has eight elements: water, fire, lightning, ice, earth, wind, light and darkness. They mostly concern spells, but weapons can also be enchanted with their power. Blessed weapons are light-elemental.

I could never replace mine. It's the best weapon in the world as far as I'm concerned.

Makes sense. I'd guess cursed ones would be darkness-elemental, following that logic?

It must be quite resistant, to never need to be replaced.

That particular one wasn't, surprisingly. It merely happened to drain the life of the people it hit. But cursed weapons generally are, yes.

Of course. I would never let it get broken.

...huh. Must have been a tough curse on that one. Mine prevents the wounds it inflicts from being healed.

That sounds like the sort of weapon you'd not want to cut yourself with. Even healing magic would not work?

Certainly no magic I've ever heard of.

...I wonder if it would still work here? Not that they'd let us access our weapons, but nothing even remotely magical works here. Would that apply to cursed spears, too?

I hadn't really thought about it. I can't imagine it would be just a normal weapon,though.

A particularly sharp and painful one, perhaps? Or perhaps it would inflict wounds that merely take much longer to heal. Or it might not even be affected, which could be why our weapons were taken away in the first place.

I don't really know. It must have taken a powerful magic to bring us all here and give human forms to those of us without them. That kind of magecraft must be powerful enough to affect a cursed lance.

It had to be within the power of whatever brought us here to let us keep our weapons. So why take them?

And in such varied ways, too. Some merely lost abilities, others found themselves with changed body parts, but a few ended up with completely different bodies. Those would need different kinds of spells, probably multiple ones.

To force us to depend on our Pokémon? To help us 'fit' with the natives? They have no weapons either.

For me, having a body like this should be beyond impossible. Only sorcery on the level of a miracle could do things like this.

Could be either one. It's hard to say.

Were you a ghost, then? Or merely incorporeal?

And of course, whoever brought us here refuses to talk or even show themselves.

Neither, if you want to be specific. I was summoned by a magic-user after my death; not quite dead, but not exactly alive either. Either way, I'm not what you'd call human.

Figures. Whoever it is must have some really screwed up reasoning.

...That sounds like His Majesty's fate. After his death, he became an Eidolon, able to be summoned by those he finds worthy. But Eidolons can have physical bodies, if they wish it.

Or a plan that does not includes sharing their knowledge with us.

Never heard of an Eidolon. I'm a Servant; there's seven of us total. Eight, counting an extra idiot that stuck around too long after he was summoned.

Whoever they are, they have to be an incredibly powerful magus of some kind. All this stuff about parallel worlds...that's part of a kind of magic on par with a miracle. That's...the Second Magic, if I remember right.

Magic that deals with others worlds is far beyond anything the people of my world can do, but... Seventeen years ago, I found myself in a world that was made of fragments from other lands. But back then, people were'nt the only ones dragged there.

Fragments...? What do you mean, exactly?

Parts of a castle, the ruins of a temple, a section of the moon, a few rocks from beneath the planet... Imcomplete places, bound together through an unknown power. You couldn't find something like a whole city there.

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