Chapter One
Chapter One
Greetings, my name is Daniel Palaiologos, and I am a self-insert/reincarnate from an Earth much like your own and sent to the setting known as the Nasuverse. I was born, or rather, reborn into a Magus Family, the Palaiologoi, which claims descent from the last 'Byzantine' Emperors. This Family has jealously held on to its independence from the Magus' Association, an organization that has had friction with them over the magical secrets of Greece. Oh, and did I mention I remember my past life, which definitely isn't from this universe?
Originally David Garcia Martinez from Lalin's Curse, a Webcomic by Isaky on Webtoons, now used for Daniel Palaiologos with her consent.
My past life loved Urban Fantasy, but focused more on World of Darkness (great lore, bad mechanics) and Chronicles of Darkness (meh lore, good mechanics) than it did Fate/Stay Night. I did watch Fate/Apocrypha and the DEEN Studio version of Fate/Stay Night, though, as well as the first eleven episodes of Fate/Zero and parts of a Let's Play of the original F/SN Visual Novel until I got bored. No, I do not touch gacha games, including FGO - That's a waste of money. Anyway, although I was reborn into a Magus Family, my father was the seventh son of the family, and thus only had training in basic Magecraft plus was allowed a lot of freedom, enough that he was allowed to marry an ordinary person - A scientist, to boot!
I was raised happily in my parents' Taverna (small restaurant) in Athens, and for a time, I thought I was born to an ordinary life, an ordinary life where I was going to live happily. I had friends, school wasn't so bad, and I got to help cook with parents who loved me. I was also taught basic Magecraft for self-defense, and it was then that I found out that this was not the world I used to live in, but the flipping' Nasuverse.
Then everything changedwhen the Fire Nation attacked when I turned sixteen and I was walking home from School. I was thinking about how The Root was similar to the Supernal Realms in Mage the Awakening (2nd Edition), in that both were representations of a higher truth about the world, a higher truth which transcended what we know as reality. The difference, of course, was that the Supernal Realms were greater, stronger, and the Magic based on them was not rendered impotent and powerless by large numbers of people understanding it. In fact, Magic was only made a secret because of the fact that the Exarchs, the people who took control of Reality in that universe, created 'The Abyss', which causes an effect called Paradox where Nonmagi witnessing Supernal Magic cause the latter to go awry and 'Abyssal Beings' to suddenly manifest and rampage.
Why is this relevant? Because my sixteen-year-old brain was theorizing about how, if we had the Supernal Realms instead of The Root, Magecraft would not be a limited resource, or even relevant at all, especially as the Abyss won't exist here. That said, wouldn't the Counter Force take umbrage if people start manifesting Supernal Magic en masse, and thus threaten Humanity, even indirectly? For that matter, what would happen to the Root itself - If it was truly inferior to the Supernal Realms, or even a shard of the Supernal Realms which fell into another universe/multiverse/setting...
It isn't, a voice whispered to him as he continued walking back home, although he should have arrived at his parents' Taverna by now. But it is similar enough that you'd benefit from it, Daniel Palaiologos.
What was that?! I thought, looking around to see if one of my family's enemies in the world of Magecraft had found me. But it wasn't - Rather, I found myself walking a golden road, in a plane of bright, burning energies which would have seared my eyes in any other world. And up ahead was a Watchtower (capitalization deliberate) composed of clockwork parts, which in turn were made up of gold, silver, and glass. The Watchtower of the Golden Key, where all I need to do is to engrave my name into it to gain the ability to use Prime, which was Power over Mana, and Forces, which would enable me to control Heat, Light, Kinetic Force, and Electricity, as well as a myriad of other 'natural forces'.
I raced towards it, drew a marker from my backpack, and moved to sign.
Was I foolish? Of course, I was! But overwhelming power and a connection to deeper cosmic truths was a craving I had, a craving that would allow me to achieve what dreams I had. And that dream was to save the world...
Greetings, my name is Daniel Palaiologos, and I am a self-insert/reincarnate from an Earth much like your own and sent to the setting known as the Nasuverse. I was born, or rather, reborn into a Magus Family, the Palaiologoi, which claims descent from the last 'Byzantine' Emperors. This Family has jealously held on to its independence from the Magus' Association, an organization that has had friction with them over the magical secrets of Greece. Oh, and did I mention I remember my past life, which definitely isn't from this universe?
Originally David Garcia Martinez from Lalin's Curse, a Webcomic by Isaky on Webtoons, now used for Daniel Palaiologos with her consent.
My past life loved Urban Fantasy, but focused more on World of Darkness (great lore, bad mechanics) and Chronicles of Darkness (meh lore, good mechanics) than it did Fate/Stay Night. I did watch Fate/Apocrypha and the DEEN Studio version of Fate/Stay Night, though, as well as the first eleven episodes of Fate/Zero and parts of a Let's Play of the original F/SN Visual Novel until I got bored. No, I do not touch gacha games, including FGO - That's a waste of money. Anyway, although I was reborn into a Magus Family, my father was the seventh son of the family, and thus only had training in basic Magecraft plus was allowed a lot of freedom, enough that he was allowed to marry an ordinary person - A scientist, to boot!
I was raised happily in my parents' Taverna (small restaurant) in Athens, and for a time, I thought I was born to an ordinary life, an ordinary life where I was going to live happily. I had friends, school wasn't so bad, and I got to help cook with parents who loved me. I was also taught basic Magecraft for self-defense, and it was then that I found out that this was not the world I used to live in, but the flipping' Nasuverse.
Then everything changed
Why is this relevant? Because my sixteen-year-old brain was theorizing about how, if we had the Supernal Realms instead of The Root, Magecraft would not be a limited resource, or even relevant at all, especially as the Abyss won't exist here. That said, wouldn't the Counter Force take umbrage if people start manifesting Supernal Magic en masse, and thus threaten Humanity, even indirectly? For that matter, what would happen to the Root itself - If it was truly inferior to the Supernal Realms, or even a shard of the Supernal Realms which fell into another universe/multiverse/setting...
It isn't, a voice whispered to him as he continued walking back home, although he should have arrived at his parents' Taverna by now. But it is similar enough that you'd benefit from it, Daniel Palaiologos.
What was that?! I thought, looking around to see if one of my family's enemies in the world of Magecraft had found me. But it wasn't - Rather, I found myself walking a golden road, in a plane of bright, burning energies which would have seared my eyes in any other world. And up ahead was a Watchtower (capitalization deliberate) composed of clockwork parts, which in turn were made up of gold, silver, and glass. The Watchtower of the Golden Key, where all I need to do is to engrave my name into it to gain the ability to use Prime, which was Power over Mana, and Forces, which would enable me to control Heat, Light, Kinetic Force, and Electricity, as well as a myriad of other 'natural forces'.
I raced towards it, drew a marker from my backpack, and moved to sign.
Was I foolish? Of course, I was! But overwhelming power and a connection to deeper cosmic truths was a craving I had, a craving that would allow me to achieve what dreams I had. And that dream was to save the world...
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