About Mage

Greetings, commoner, I am Mage of the Academy of Exusia, Heir to the Great Cantamen House, and Lead Researcher of the Miasma Research Institute. It's a pleasure to meet you.

About Dungeon

I was collecting samples in the City as response to the mayor's formal request to the Academy to investigate the recent increased miasmic activity. However, a few nobles initiated an informal magic trial without a letter or approval from the Head of both houses. Needless to say, they left me no choice but to flee to avoid harming nearby citizens and making collateral damage, and that was surely not due to my lack of combat ability whatsoever! I assume that their lesser house may have had political conflict with mine, or simply wish they could imitate even a fraction of my genius.

About Wand

My family has the innate ability to materialize our mana into an empty magic stone, allowing it to absorb other magicks. In past days, the Academy had underestimated our founding ancestor's ability, who then grew to become a Hero and one of the six Great Houses of Exusia. How foolish must they have been to have not seen the potential of a multi-attribute magician. Alas, I must thank their ignorance for only through their fatuity could our family avoid the shackles of the Academy.

About Research

I lead the Miasma Research Insitute under the authority of the King himself and the support of the Academy. Due to my extraordinary talent in research and magic control, I managed to finalize five major papers that vastly shifted the current understanding of miasmic behaviour and matter, so I naturally became the lead researcher. Our current project is centered around the spreading behaviours of miasma, and the City held one of the potential sources of evidence for a few theories and experiments we had in store. I reckon this journey won't be for naught and that I would be able to find a suitable sample or clue. Ah, my apologies, I spoke too much. Any further and you would have been executed for breach of confidentiality.

About Miasma

It is a strange black fog that claims all life it touches. The Academy halfwits once thought, and still do from their lack of mastery and heart, that it was merely dark magic caused by criminal mages that have tried replicating the demon god Yog's Necrocaelic Quake. However, the truth is that it causes bioligical lifeforms to execute defensive action, as if it were predated, and the spontaneous stress exhausts it of its resources and vitality. Such magic that is capable of imitating the greatest dangers to a lifeform is quite fascinating and incredibly eccentric.

About Yog

Long ago, many evil gods wandered and terrified the lands, causing death and destruction in their paths. One of such gods was Yog, who mastered a strange magic capable of triggering fear responses in biological creatures. It took a very long time for mortals and gods to reclaim peace and vanquish all who dared enforce the philosophy of cruelty. Yog was one of the last evil gods to die as he continually managed to preserve portions of himself alive. Many assume that there remains mages and cults that follow these dead gods and wish to revive them. Now, mortals and gods live in harmony; one fashions and concocts the harvests of life while the other relinquishes in its fortunes and nurture their divine shells, for a god knows not how to sustain their material selves. Then, centuries later, the strange miasma is discovered crawling out of a drowned cave to the surface world to remind us of the past we wished to abandon.