๐๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ, ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ป๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฏ๐น๐ ๐ถ๐บ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ, ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฒ๐
๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ถ๐ฒ๐ ๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ. After ridding himself of the orb at last, in fact, the wizard becomes a force that's once more unstoppable. He can cast spells without a word, capable of summoning infernos with a wave, and the ease in which he harnesses storms is frightening, but only as frightening as it is an art. Of course, Gale, however, had proved long ago his more prodigious talent. Still, to see him in action beats just listening to this talk. Gale is powerful, relearning all that he'd lost with alarming speed, and that's all a testament to his blinding brilliance--and, of course, his ingrained ambition. With the orb, the wizard had to limit all manner of casting. He had to sate his hunger, was forced to draw back as to not tempt fate, and with the orb in place snuffing his most powerful spells, was something of a tempest in a thick glass cage. However, with the orb finally gone, those limits have at last been lifted. He had became a level 12 wizard with a hell of a handicap, and with that handicap absent beyond its lingering scar, it's like all his previous mastery finally returned--and with force, mind you, like a strike of lightning. In a way, one could compare him to a runner stripped of their weights. He'd learned unparalleled control with an arcane bomb strapped, but now no longer fearing his imminent explosion, is free, as goes the metaphor, to cast a god damned marathon. And Gale is learned. Rather, he's disgustingly learned. He knows all schools of magic, is qualified to teach every field in Blackstaff, and he doesn't serve his city or own his own floating realm, but he'll once again become archwizard in those ways that matter--in his ability to cast and his hellish ferocity. Maybe he won't become as great as he had been with Mystra, but as a former chosen, it's a helluvan accomplishment. In time, Gale Dekarios becomes Gale, professor at Blackstaff, but as a testament to his ability, the city again warms to the idea of Gale of Waterdeep--because she's really only one Gale one could possibly need.
Of course, he doesn't advocate for the title... But it still delights him.
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