Journal of a trainee mage - by Chabat

9th August

Well, despite the icky start, I think things went a bit better tonight. We didn’t have as many with us …but I’ll get to that in a moment.

Me and Dionisia were the 1st to arrive again but after waiting for the others while Master Sunbloom spoke with the Blood Elf lady that had followed us at the end of last night’s trip, we finally set out for Brill.

The Lady (I don’t think I ever caught her name ) wanted us to gather dust from the bones of the people buried in the graveyard. I’m not sure why but Andellion seemed to think this was educational. I was reminded of what Inethven had said to me in Silvermoon…but this was more than just dangerous ( and disgusting…I mean… rats and diseases and slimy mould…Yuk! ), it went against everything I’ve always been taught. I didn’t want to risk being cursed by the Loa for desecrating the graves so I refused to do it. Dio seemed more than happy to get some for me though so I guess the Lady didn’t end up with less than she wanted but don't even want to think about what Leahman said Dio was doing while she got the samples...being sick once was enough!

After the Lady was satisfied, we went to the Inn. I didn't know why at first but it turned out that Master Dawnshade was running a lecture in the town hall next door and Andellion wanted to check it out. He was really upset when he came back, going on about people stealing his students...apparently that was why Katheryn hadn't come with us tonight ( can't say that i was -too- bothered about that though).

Magister Avior finally managed to calm things down and we took a portal to Silvermoon again before making our way to the Blasted Lands to see the Dark Portal. It's the only fixed portal in existence and was formed by Medivh himself to let the original Horde come to Azeroth from Dreanor (well, everybody calls it Outland now).

Next we went to see the great Tower of Karazahn where Medivh lived. The place was Huge! I wish we could have got a little closer...maybe even gone inside...but it was too dangerous. The passes were full of great big birds that kept attacking us and i really didn't fancy falling and Master Sunbloom hurried us on into Elwynn.

The Tower of Azora was realy intresting, though the mages got a little annoyed by us just marching in and looking at their stuff. I hoped we'd be able to talk to them about the scrying orbs and how they made them but we just ended up getting into a fight with them and Andellion had to cast a spell to erase their memories so they wouldn't come after us. I guess the Kirin Tor haven't been able to persuade the rest of the Alliance mages to accept us Horde spell casters after all.

After that we stopped at a waterfall. I didn't notice at first, but Master Sunbloom told us the waters were magical and could be used for scrying. Master Avior showed us how to make a fire stay burning on the surface and make the water freeze...that looked like a complicated bit of magic...but i think i understood the principle once he explained it.

Finally, Avior created a portal so we could return to Dalaran and we used the last of those magic coins to get some prizes (Dio got some magic snowballs and i got the little paper zepplin kit that i'm going to try putting it together in the morning). It was a lot of stuff that we had to take in and i'm glad Andellion gave us some course notes to study or i'm sure i'd forget half of what we learned but i did have a good time in the end (Mindrathu and Dio weren't too bad despite being forsaken) ...i hope we all get together for another trip sometime.