Wisdom Tasks

*splash* *splash* *splash* A merchant looked to the sky as the first raindrops began to fall. "Ah, darn" she hissed. She needed customers, because customers meant money and money meant she was able to buy food to eat and feed her kids. But tourists always disappeared at the first sign of rain. Soon, the flea market will be empty except for a few other merchants, beggars and the occasional desperate individual, who really, really needs something that nobody seems to sell. She could hear...

Ever since Aster discovered his word focus, everything seemed to click in place. His old caretaker was wrong - he wasn’t lazy, he really did feel more energized outside in the sunlight. Instead of being scolded and punished with more chores, his new caretaker embraced Aster’s natural affinities and encouraged his magical and intellectual progress. She didn’t make him take ...

Aster spent a lot of time looking at the sky. He loved to observe the movement of the clouds and the colors that splashed the world above him, as if someone took an enormous paintbrush and used the heavens as their canvas. He especially loved sunny days, gazing longingly at how the intense light from Lingua’s own star shone through cloud droplets and tempered glass. He always felt the most energized when directly un...

Theia doesn’t remember how or when she came to be. Her memory was rather fuzzy as a tabula rasa, and all she knew was wandering the streets of Sermos, searching for… “something”. She wasn’t sure what she sought, exactly, but she’d seen other Paralogos around town. Larger dinosaurs, with more distinct colors and features. Some flitting about on an errand, others accompanying their caretakers, all of them expressing an air of purpose. Surely they found...