<strong>Haelen Del'Armgo</strong><br/><br/><em>Waste of a charge on the wand,</em>Haelen thought to himself after the surprise of Jevan using a fireball from a wand wore off. His eyes stung, and he rubbed them a little bit, deliberately blinking a few times to try and get the pain to settle down. Rather than say anything though, Haelen simply settle back into his seat, sighing and not bothering to even look at Jevan. Haelen didn't bother with Evocation. It was too easy to kill yourself with a fireball, or to destroy something of value that your targets may have. An infantile show of force didn't impress him. Especially since Jevan hadn't even cast the spell himself. He had used a wand. Haelen could probably take a wand of fireball to Melee-Magthere and find at least four or five dozen students capable of using it to the exact same effect as Jevan had. He wasn't impressed. His eyes stung, and certainly the fireball could have killed someone had Jevan not placed it away from the students, but Haelen still wasn't impressed. Sure, if all you wanted to do was blindly destroy everything in an area, then evocation was perfectly adequate. But what would an evoker with a wand of fireballs do if he were being attacked by a summoned fire elemental, or a pack of scorpions the size of the goblin slaves? When they were upon you, fireball was worse that useless. It would kill you as well.<br/><br/>The temptation to speak up that the use of a wand of fireballs wasn't limited to an evoker was great, but Haelen held his tongue. Jevan hardly seemed sensible enough to accept observation that didn't make him look smarter. Not that Haelen cared about the<em>Master's</em>feelings, but he did rather prefer not being set of fire. What a primitive, mundane way to die.<br/><br/>With that in mind, Haelen looked around the room at the other students, wondering if any of them actually were impressed by the use of a wand. If so, they were probably incompetent. Grinning a little bit, Haelen finally returned his attention to<em>Master</em>Jevan, ready to go back to not caring at all what the man had to say. For his own purposes, Haelen had no use for evocation. He could summon creatures to fight and to be struck by enemies for him, and he was quite practiced at it. His own summons would be stronger than most of his fellow students. Of course, if that didn't work, he could just use an invisibility spell to retreat and plan a better method of dealing with his enemies another time. Haelen preferred well crafted plans and strategies over sheer force. If your enemies get close to you, and the only spell you have left is a fireball, you're in trouble. If you have invisibility, or teleportation, or a powerful summon, then you can still get away. You wont burn yourself into ashes. It was better that way.<br/><br/>So Haelen sat, ready to 'learn' from<em>Master</em>Jevan. But Haelen wasn't learning how to cast evocation spells, though that may have been Jevan's intended teachings. No, Haelen was learning how to deal with an evoker, should he ever find himself in a duel with one. He was learning how to avoid the spells they used, and how to, eventually, get passed those spells to kill them. It was just as good a lesson, if not better.