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Tinasha:  The key to the puzzle ended up coming from Aurelia, a member of the royal family of Gandona, one of Farsas’s neighbors. Confidentially, Tinasha had asked Aurelia to relay anything she knew about mysterious cases of entire villages being destroyed. Aurelia, with her natural perceptiveness, intuited what Tinasha was after. In addition to details on cases in Gandona, Aurelia passed along a description of an incident from eight years earlier in a small country to the east.
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Tinasha:  "It’s a nation called Cathlys. Eight years ago, every single person in a small settlement abruptly died." Tinasha explained.
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Oscar:  "Eight years ago? That’s the oldest one yet." Oscar remarked. Every night, he had a drink with Tinasha, listening to how her investigation was proceeding. He was slowly drinking his way through the bottles of liqueur she kept on a shelf in her room as decoration. No matter how much Oscar consumed, his behavior didn’t change at all; Tinasha wondered if he might not actually have been human.
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Tinasha:  Her own glass of chilled water in hand, Tinasha passed Oscar the documents she’d been reading. "They know who attacked the place in Cathrys, however. A mage named Bardalos used magic and hexes to raze a village of nearly one hundred to the ground overnight."
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Oscar:  Oscar nodded. "Sounds almost exactly like all the others. What was his motive?"
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Tinasha:  "A town-wide attack experiment. A long time ago, Tuldarr also had mages who devised large-scale forbidden curses that would target cities. In reality, it’s completely impractical for one person’s curse to destroy an entire city. But this mage supplemented his hex with regular attack magic and psychological spells, thereby making it possible to lay waste to a town. He brought his proposal to the Cathlys royal castle."
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Oscar:  "That’s…one weird court mage." Oscar commented.
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Tinasha:  "No, he wasn’t a court mage. While he possessed plenty of talent, he was refused because of issues with his personality. In response, he presented his town-wide attack idea, but naturally, his designs were ignored."
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Oscar:  "Of course. He was only making it worse for himself at that point." Oscar remarked, shaking his head in dismay.
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Tinasha:  Tinasha agreed with him. Bardalos fell into disgrace because he didn’t understand the social implications of his proposition. Or perhaps he did and brought it before the court for the hell of it. Cathlys ignored his proposal, so Bardalos set out to prove just how viable his theory was. Tinasha perched on the armrest of Oscar’s chair. "He had numerous other offenses, too, and likely more that haven’t yet come to light. It’s no wonder he was barred from becoming a court mage. Apparently, he ran about, completely uncontrolled in the smaller countries on the border."
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Oscar:  "And they couldn’t stop him after all that?" Oscar asked.
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Tinasha:  "When he wiped out that village, they were going to execute him. But Bardalos annihilated the squadron sent to capture him. Only one man survived. Based on his testimony, those in charge verified that Bardalos was indeed responsible."