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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9737462" data-attributes="member: 52734">Iggy, the Goblin Warlock.Iggy was always destined to be great, and that's what always got him into trouble - or that's what he liked to think.  He was scrawny growing up, and often bullied by his mates for his unnaturally yellow eyes.  But these "hawk eyes" of his could see farther than any other goblin in his enclave, and sometimes even into the future.It was this foresight that led him to leave his enclave a mere day before humans befell his home and sacked it.  Some made it out, but most didn't.   Iggy though, thanks to his foresight was already far enough ahead that he did not need to fear pursuit.  Instead, he felt drawn to a cave system at the edge of a rocky cliff side.  Inside, he sensed something powerful - something waiting for him.So it was that Iggy found himself before the Silver Sorcerer, who had made his home in the cave years before.   At first, the Silver Sorcerer attempted to drive Iggy away most harshly, but the goblin proved resourceful and glib of tongue.  The Silver Sorcerer relented, and took Iggy in to care for those tasks the Silver Sorcerer had no time for himself.For a year, Iggy cleaned, cooked and performed whatever chores the Silver Sorcerer assigned to him - often having the foresight to preempt the Sorcerer's requests.  Iggy made no secret in trying to read the great tomes the Silver Sorcerer pored over, and even taught himself to read the human tongue to catch snippets wherever he could.   However, the Silver Sorcerer would always clap his tome shut before Iggy could read far over the Sorcerer's shoulder, or was shooed out of the room before he open a tome to spy the contents within.After a year though, the Silver Sorcerer brought Iggy to his lab, where he point-blank asked Iggy why he was so interested in the Sorcerer's tomes, even wagging one such book before the bright-eyed goblin."I wish to learn magic," Iggy told him, "to be like you."   When the Sorcerer demanded Iggy explain what it meant to be like him, Iggy replied, "Wise.  Careful.  And well-learned."  The Sorcerer must have been impressed, for he placed a lab apron on the goblin and led him to a wooden desk.  Tapping the book, it opened and the Sorcerer bade him to start his studies with that book.Iggy devoured the knowledge and basics of magic within it in a single night.   But actually casting magic took much longer.  Neither he nor the Silver Sorcerer gave up though, and within another year Iggy was well enough learned and practiced that he had mastered his first few cantrips and a handful of true spells.The Silver Sorcerer then brought him to the secret summoning lab he had kept hidden even from the goblin.   There, he taught Iggy the basics of summoning creatures from beyond the world.   Iggy's eventual first success landed him a pseudodragon, Bill.  Then as the Silver Sorcerer looked on and encouraged him, Iggy used a secret summons the Sorcerer had taught him, and brought a shadowy figure into the summoning hall. Keros, the Silver Sorcerer called it - a powerful dark fey that the Silver Sorcerer knew well.  As he was expected, Iggy created a pact with Keros, service in return for more powerful magic and knowledge.When Keros faded, the Silver Sorcerer turned to the goblin.   "I have taught you all I can from here.   Now, you must journey out into the world to learn any more and discover what you will do with the magic you have obtained."  The Silver Sorcerer knelt, placing his hand on Iggy's shoulder and passed him a golden walking staff.  "I know you will make me proud," the Silver Sorcerer proclaimed before the two parted and Iggy stepped out in the wider world beyond the caves where his life had changed forever.</blockquote>

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