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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 5719217" data-attributes="member: 360">Almost certainly she wouldn't have initially thought her artificer talent was a power. I'm picturing her stumbling on to Eldritch's research on the subject. * * * *SPELLSLINGER: You knew! ELDRICH: I knew someone like you could exist, if the right lines crossed. It has happened at least once before. Did I know that [shadowy mystic group with unclear goals] was actively working to create someone with your power? Not until too late. SPELLSLINGER: But how? ELDRICH: Arranging for children to be adopted by the right families. Arranging for the right pople to meet. SPELLSLINGER: You're making my family seem like someone's genetic engineering project run in slow motion.  ELDRICH: I'm sorry, but it was. And [the sorceress] knew much of this before I did, though she did not know how close to completion that project was.* * * * It's easy enough to kill the unrequitted romance angle, if Raven otherwise works better. I don't have any of the Freedom City background books, so I was just kind of assuming a male crimefighter mentor and a female magical mentor but it would be easy to flip that. What I was kind of figuring was that she spent a little over a decade going from vengeatnce-seeking young woman with a bit of power and a lot of determination (PL 6-7, in her late teens / early 20s) to skilled sidekick (PL 8-9, in her mid/late 20s) to setting out on her own (shortly before the series starts; PL 10, in her early 30s). I'd think a decade or so in the field might be enough time for a student to match or exceed her mentor (and in fact, recognizing that was the case might have been the impetus to encourage her to move on).  Well, when he took an interest in her, she didn't. More like a +15-ish -- which from natural talent, teaching herself, and instructions from people he probably would have regarded as little more than dabblers, he would have thought nearly as impressive.</blockquote>

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