There were various chapters on different types of runes one could implent, how to collect souls or soul shards from the beyond using Forest and Death magic, and types of wards he could erect with the right application of knowledge. Looking over his shoulder, he found that literally everyone else had fallen asleep—obviously exhausted from recent events after having traversed from one world to the next. Even Athela had fallen asleep and was—to Riven’s surprise—curled up next to Julie with the woman’s arm draped over the spider while she wore the blanket he’d given her.
Just how long had Riven’s head been in the books to not notice that one?
But this was good. It was a good thing that they got so ti to relax… He was sure the small family especially needed it.
Turning back to his book, he began to read so more. Ti passed like a blur as page after page flipped over in his hands, and soon the daylight hours overhead turned to night and starlight through the holes in the cave roof—leaving only the burning and crackling torches to light the pages in his hands.
He dread of his long-gone dog that night. She’d been a half basset hound, half terrier mix with stubby paws and floppy ears and a bark that was far too deep for a dog her size. He rembered how she’d been just a puppy and they’d taken her from a family friend of his father’s who owned a farm, and how that family friend’s dog had gotten frisky with a stray to produce the litter of puppies Riven got to pick from.
He’d known she’d be called Shadow even before he’d t her. Back then, as a kid, he’d thought the na was cool, and that’d been the sole reason for naming the dog that. Funny, because she wasn’t even a black dog…she’d been brown, a deep chestnut-brown color. But he hadn’t cared, he’d liked the na. He rembered how she’d whimper and cry at night in the kitchen while being [Riven Thane’s Status Page:
• Level 4
• Pillar Orientations: Unholy Foundation, Blood
• Traits: Race: Human, Class: Novice Warlock, Breath of Malignancy (???), Adrenaline Junkie (Blood) ( 15% to Agility)
• Abilities: Blessing of the Crow (Unholy), Wretched Snare (Unholy), Bloody Razors (Blood)
• Stats: 8 Strength, 9 Sturdiness, 39 Intelligence, 10 Agility, 1 Luck, -4 Charisma, 3 Perception, 25 Willpower, 9 Faith
• Minions: Athela, Level 3 Blood Weaver [14 Willpower Requirent]
• Equipped Items: Crude Cultist’s Robes (1 def), Basic Casting Staff (4 dmg, 12% mana regen, 3 magic dmg), Chalgathi Cultist Amulet (???), Leather Boots (1 def), Backpack of Supplies]
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