Consequences

"I was informed that it was for my own protection," the young duke muttered. "Just another line of Loki crap, really. But the dragoness was kind enough to give me an hour to meditate or pray or whatever to prepare. I was able to escape the guards and reach a slipgate outside of town....."

"And you ended up at our meeting and interrupted us," Zerm interrupted. "All on the hopes that you couild appeal to us to avenge your hurt ego, and in return for?......"

"I have connections I could pick up in this worlds Syndicate....." Zular began.

"Don't think so," Zerm laughed, changing his voice and appearance to a middle aged, balding man known only as the Crimson King (leader of the Black Market Cult/Syndicate). "I have everything I need from them....even now. I don't need a pretender to take over a minor flunkies position, boy!"

Zerm returned to his original form, and smiled at his audience. Zular had been allowed to come out of his spell haze and remember the entirety of the interview....and what one of Zerm's many aliases were. With a sinking feeling, the duke saw he had nothing to offer. Nothing at all.

The ghosts of the mages looked at Zerm goggle eyed for they hadn't even seen Zerm make a magical gesture or word in his transformations.

"Comes from centuries of practice," Zerm smiles. "But first there is YOU, Zular. Consequences..."

"I wish I had that tool that Uncle Tesla used to have," Zerm mutters as he traces arcane sigils in the air. Zular screams as similar sigils appear on his body, and burn into his skin (and soul). The world blurs and fades as Zular's Matrix begins to mutate....

It remembers being human. It remembers it's life before awaking (and being reborn) in this glen.

Dextrous claws/hands (the part that fade to bird on what would be forepaws of a loin) as it feels the beak and face of the black eagle head he now wears.

Zular eventually find that he can even speak, but he sound nothing like a human, and has a tendency to give off bird like squakes at odd times (mixed with hissing the 's' and rolling the 'r' in every word he speaks).

Right at the momment, Zular now has two enemies to get revenge upon. The magic users who did this to him is one group. The other is the family and friends of the family who's family crest bears a striking resemblance to the form he now will wear for the rest of his life!

1. While the new griffin looks himself over, Zerm explains his actions to his curious friends....

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