Will you be my Teacher? (Cathran's Short Stories)

Date: 13th of Erastus

Vidya knew she was getting close to becoming god-like with her efforts using both her persona. She had down the seeds for her followers of Cathran to follow her deific form and then had them spread their name once they had converted. Using that as a base she worked hard to get her faith to start spreading, she used her Cathran persona as her main follower trying to spread the religion more. She has a few low-level clerics that follow her and have started the ripples that will just grow in time until she can have her name spread far and wide. "It's all coming together," she says to herself. She hears a particular prayer from a follower and is frustrated by it seeing as she can do nothing to help them currently. She has to be idle until she can grow in power more.

She is pulled out of her thoughts as she hears a knock on her door, to which she gets up to answer it. She is at her door and opens it "Hello is this where Cathran Lorekeeper lives?" The young man says. Cathran nods "Yes, I live here" the young man looks confused for a moment, then surprised "Your Cathran Lorekeeper!?" Cathran nods, feeling nothing at this seeming slight. "I am Cathran like I said, what is it that you want?" The young man nods several times before answering "I have heard you are an expert on many things" Cathran then replies "Yes I am, I assume you would like to know something?"

The young man then replies "Yes I was asking if you could teach me about magic and planar entities". Cathran looks at him and appraises him before asking "What are the 7 schools of magic" The young man says back to her "There are eight and they are Necromancy, Divination, Evocation, Conjuration, Transmutation, Abjuration, Enchantment, and finally Illusion. Although I'm sure you already knew that and you were just testing me." Cathran nods to his musing "And what entities do you wanna learn about and what info would you like to learn?"

The young man says eagerly "I am most interested in Celestials and Angels in particular. I want to learn what I can do with my magic. Ya see my Granpappy's Granpappy's Granpappy's mother was an Angel. Now because of that, I can cast magic because of my bloodline. If possible could you teach me how to harness my magic and how to cast spells better, as I don't have great control over my spells right now" Cathran looks at him again now seeing that the young man was in actuality an Aasimar that looks very human and then nods in response.

"I will do my best to teach you how to cast spells and teach you the fundamentals. Although I won't be teaching you from experience as the spells I know how to cast are prepared through careful study. I know many techniques that other Sorcerers use to cast their spells from reading books about them. Yes if you can cast spells based on your inherently magical bloodline then you would be a Sorcerer."

The Young Aasimar looks at her "Would you like me to show you what I have learned to do so far?" Cathran shakes her head "Not here, we should be in a wide-open space with targets if you're gonna practice magic when just starting. But yes Xander, I will do my best to teach you."

Xander looks at her in astonishment as he realizes that she knew his name despite never being told it before. "I never told you my name, how did you know it?" as he says that her Mythic power hits him like a wave and he realizes that she is even more powerful than he could have imagined before meeting her in the flesh.

Xander then says to Cathran "You are much more powerful than people say you are, also how.. what.. why do I get the impression that you're able to grant spells to others? That isn't possible for a…" Vidya looks him in the eyes and says "You finish that thought and there will be ramifications happening" Xander's eyes widen as she says that to him losing focus on what he was thinking and just looking at her with astonishment.

Cathran's face softens "If you are to be under my tutelage then you will need to curb your curiosity while I am teaching you, afterward do what you want with your time and learn what you want but there are things that are dangerous to you if you learn them too early." She makes a mental note to make sure that he won't speak about the connection between her persona afterward.

"So Xander, come here on the 19th of this month at mid-day and we shall begin your training" she continues. Xander nods enthusiastically "Thank you for agreeing to teach me about magic and Angels so I can better understand my bloodline, what I am, and what I can do" Cathran responds to that with a small nod "Have a good day, and don't be late for your first day of training".