Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5583506-20150722184854/@comment-5583506-20150811220013

Bernarde Montinette shot her a stare, as if to ask her put her irritation somewhere else otherwise he would not continue the story.

"Now, my ancestor Aluc Montinette was... let's just say very devoted to his art. It would take up a majority of his time and life, leaving him with very little else safe for his vast knowledge on the alchemical matter. After founding the Crimson Academy he formed an order of associates with some of the best alchemists he knew. Cordius was one of them, and I don't think I need to explain how it comes that he lived back then, do I? No? Perfect. For years he and his comrades worked in the lower levels of the Academy, far away from the prying eyes of the students living there, in order to finally complete what many had believed to be nothing but a myth. For years they tried, even as they grew older, they never gave up hope of ever achieving it. Until one day when Aluc Montinette was close to discovering the secret. He walked past one of the secret studies located below the Academy and overheard a very disturbing conversation between several members of the Order. The conversation was supposedly that of plans on what they would do with their immortality once they had gained it. Some of them talked about becoming world leaders, dominating the world with an iron fist, how they would gain power beyond human recognition and how they would lay those who had defied them beneath their feet."

Montinette smacked with his lips. "This sickened Aluc to the bone. The Great Work was not something to be used as a tool for world domination and corruption. It was meant to act as a threshold to come one step closer to divinity, yet upon hearing his own former trusted companions discussing unspeakable cruelties once they had gained their eternal life, he decided to complete the elixir without their knowledge. And so he did. He only shared the secret with those few whom he completely trusted; Theomyr Cordius, Selebrand and  Antonin Sirius. These men were the first to join him in the completion of the Great Work. They all drank of the Elixir of Life and gained eternal life, untouched by sickness and further aging."

He sighed. "But as you know, there is no such thing as living forever. The Elixir of Life can bring you eternal life, but it doesn't protect you from death. And death came for Cordius."

He looked into the firepit. "There is a darker chapter to this story. But I fear that if I tell you, there will be no holding you back from marching into your own grave..."