| An ancient prophecy foretold of a child born in the city of Llewllamarall with a necktie-shaped birthmark, who would grow up to be the greatest Wizard ever known. You have a birthmark like that, but at first you were only a sort of okay Wizard. Everyone has to start somewhere, I guess. As luck would have it, as you were passing through the land of Fandanzia, you stopped at the inn in the quiet hamlet of Cabbagetown, and heard the local squire talking about the ancient strip mall that the town had (perhaps ill-advisedly) been built next to, and the fantastic Azure Idol of Diablolo that was purported to be hidden there. Without bothering to ask why nobody had managed to recover it already, you set out on your very first quest. You were doing a swell job until you had to fend off half a dozen desperados with your foot trapped in a swinging razor-sharp pendulum. Fortunately, most of them ran away when the rakshasa showed up, and you played dead until it left. That's not very heroic, but hey, it worked. You holed up in a small storeroom with a lockable door, and spent several weeks resting until your hitpoints were back to full. Then, keeping a careful eye out for kobolds, you made your way to the lair of Shadow Overlord Mephistor and the object of your quest. You thought he nearly had you when he summoned a foul lich to his aid, but you put paid to the beast with your pike and knocked the villain screaming into a meat grinder with a well-placed kick to the lower back. At last, the treasure was yours!
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