The Heart of a dungeon. ♥You are the very heart of a dungeon, a nexus of magical energies fused onto some chance substrate and cycled until, by chance recursion, a form of sentience arose within you. Deep within the earth, you are a being of immense potential and unique outlook, but you know none of this. In fact, you know nothing at all. Perhaps you should change that.
You look deep into your past, and find the nature of your existence.
A. You are a natural dungeon. A coincidence of crossing ley lines that did alight upon some speck of gemstone or conducive ore. Your ley lines will bring you a passive income of raw mana, but you are a wild thing, and must learn the nuance of this world for yourself.
B. You are a seeded dungeon. Countless millennia ago some great power sought to make you, perhaps in their service, or perhaps not. They have passed on long ago, but you have not. That great ritual of power that thrust you into the earth has finally born fruit, and you have come about in your own free will. There is knowledge seeded within you that will provide a passive research as you untangle it's complexities, but with your benefactors missing, you will need to manifest such machinations on your own.
You are what you are, and you take solace in this fact, but there is more to life than the past. In the countless years as your mind has began to flicker to life you have learned to sense your surroundings in all number of ways.
One thing has become clear to you, in order to advance in this world, you must embrace physicality. You must project beyond the ethereal vortex that is your own mind. Your first creation will be your greatest, borne from the sole physical core of your body, soaked in your power for a thousand thousand years. You must form a mind for it, and a body. Take care, they will be your greatest ally, and your sole phylactery.
A. A humanoid creature of brilliant light, borne of a glistening gemstone at its core. While more than capable in a fight, its true power lies in its mind. In time, it will be capable of magics of its own, and excels in research and forethought. It's features now are shrouded and indistinct, but will settle with time and experience.
B. A massive animalistic form of power, grown from a purified bit of metal at its heart. While sharp of mind and wit, its true power lies in its physical strength. In time, it may forge artifacts themselves from raw earth, and it has a talent to extract resources from even the most barren plot. It's form is shifting and indistinct, but it will settle with time and experience.
C. A roaring cloud of rainbow glass and color, projected from raw crystalized magics. It is smart and strong, but not overpowering in either respect. It is a living paradox, sustained by will. In time, it may learn to project this will and pull the otherwise unobtainable into your grasp. It's presence is chaotic and indistinct, but it will settle with time and experience, hopefully.
And so you must begin. Your first servant is not you. It is the first other existence you have known from yourself. It is linked to you, as you are linked to it, but it is but a baby to you, and looks to you for guidance.
What will you have it do?
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