Veldar the Illusionist's Stats
During my adventures in Master of Magic, the Klackon village of Hadaloo revolted! I was really upset because Hadaloo was originally an outpost that I founded with extra care, hoping that it would grow and prosper. But for some reasons the citizens of Hadaloo decided to rebel and they even convinced the Stag Beetle that was on patrol to join in their revolt. The village of Hadaloo was very far away from Tygo city so sending an attack force had to be carefully planned. I decided to send a huge invasion force of six, highly trained stag beetles to retake Hadaloo. But by the time my army got to the perimeter of Hadaloo, the rebels had already recruited four units of Klackon Halberdiers. With the aid of my wizard’s magic, his name is Sackloth, I was able to destroy the rebel units, and kill the traitor Stag Beetle. The citizens must have been unhappy to be under the rule of Sackloth again and forced to give their excess food and money to my government, but I negotiated with them and decided to lower taxes to a low rate of only one gold per 1,000 citizens. As a result of our newfound understanding, the people of Hadaloo decided to militarize and eventually build a Fighter’s and Armorer’s Guild along with a new stables. This enabled Hadaloo to raise and train Stag Beetle units of their own to aid in the fight against the enemy wizards.
Near the capital of Tygo, our scouts detected a huge tower. After leading a large expeditionary force into the tower, Chogles the Dwarf battled with dangerous enemies. They were successful and we found out that the tower lead to another plane of existence called Myrror. This new realm was very different from what we knew back on Arcanus, and the mountains and grasslands were dark and dangerous. Chogles eventually lead his force of stag beetles onward to attack a Draconian hamlet and small Dark Elf town. The natives fought hard against Chogles, but they were no real match for the fire breathing stag beetles. Chogles then guarded the towns against invasion by raiders.
Years later a powerful young Illusionist named Veldar approached Sackloth, looking for work. He wanted 500 gold pieces up front and 10 gold pieces per day for his services. I was weary about hiring the Illusionist, he seemed like he knew how to use magic well, but he was poor in hand to hand combat. But after talking with the young man and going over his abilities, I found out that he was adept in Arcane Power as well as being a Prayermaster. These abilities showed signs of great potential as a warrior. What I didn’t realize at first, was that as an Illusionist, his magical ranged attack was considered an illusion, so his attacks could bypass the armor of any unit. I witnessed this first hand when Veldar attacked a shaman unit. They got annihilated in a single hit. And his attack looked impressive, it was a glowing white ball of energy with blue colors emanating from it. The sound it made as it whirred through the air inflicted fear as well as awe in his enemies.
Stag Beetle
I decided that Veldar needed to train before sending him into further combat, so I let him station at Tygo for several months. There he slowly gained experience and I was able to craft him some special items. I gave him a wand of stoning that increased his damage, and had a chance to instantly turn any enemy into stone. This wand also had improved chances to hit the target. And I made him the Amulet of Naxos which was a very special creation that added four points of increased power to his ranged and hand to hand attacks as well as giving Veldar the abilities of Water Walking and most importantly Regeneration. With Regeneration, Veldar was able to heal during combat, but if he died while fighting and his allies were victorious with combat. Then Veldar would come back to life with full vitality and fervor for life. With these items in his possession, I felt that Veldar was ready to lead a force of his own into Myrror and search for treasure and go on adventures.
Myrror was a very dangerous place and Veldar fought against dangerous enemies. On one occasion Veldar brought Sackloth great fame by single handedly wiping out an entire army of Ghouls and Zombies with his magical attacks. His Stag Beetle companions barely had to do any fighting at all. But on one occasion Veldar tried to conquer a tightly defended Night Elf town. He had the help of a noble hero, Lord Kumdar. And Lord Kumdar was physically strong, yet he was inexperienced and he got ripped to shreds by the spells of the Dark Elf swordsmen and halberdiers. Veldar was killed as well, but fortunately the valiant Stag Beetle units fought onward and were able to kill the Dark Elves. After the battle one Stag Beetle started to cry when he saw Veldar’s broken and torn body. But then the Amulet of Naxos glowed with bright light and made Veldar’s remains levitate. A vortex of energy was visible pulling energy from the stars and spiraling it down into Veldar’s body. Suddenly Veldar’s limbs pulled together and recombined and repaired. And the stag beetles bowed their heads at Veldar’s regeneration. He said to his Stag Beetle warriors, “Friends, your honor and tenacity in battle has brought us victory and has given me the chance to regain my life. I am forever in your debt. And let it be known, that never again shall we attack a dangerous town like this again, unless we have proper reinforcements. From now on, I shall ask our wizard, Sackloth, to cast the spell of regeneration upon you during battle, if you ever become weak from injury. Now, let us oversee the reconstruction of these towns so that they prosper and bring great energy and production for our Government!”
Unfortunately, Sackloth didn’t cast regeneration upon Lord Kumdar, so he was very dead.
-Tyler
