SPARE THE ROD

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Inviktor: Saraxis likes to claim she discovered your world, but there were many of us who took an interest.
Inviktor: She saw you merely as new toys. Kortifex, I have never fully fathomed. But I assume he saw new lands to plunder.
Inviktor: He ordered Norticus to study you for conquest. Norticus ordered me to learn your ways of war. And Bellekar? Curiosity is her lifeblood.
Inviktor: We each had our favorite mortals to visit. For me, the Greeks. For Kortifex, the Egyptians. We were seen as patron spirits... angels... demons... gods...
Inviktor: Saraxis did have the idea to make artifacts that could bond us to mortals. But it took Bellekar’s cunning to actually make it work.
Inviktor: Even then, we each had to craft our own. We tried to make them fit the cultures we wanted to visit. Heh. None of us got it quite right.
Inviktor: I was probably closest with my sword, but swords I understand.
Inviktor: Kortifex... Kortifex just didn’t care. Hrrr.... Two pyramids on a stick. How long did that take him?
Inviktor: We cast our artifacts through the veil, our friends picked them up, and suddenly we were truly with them.
Inviktor: We had such adventures in those days. But those are tales for another time.
Inviktor: If only we had realized sooner that in creating the artifacts, we had made a rod for our own backs...