1 Beginnings

On earth I am a 24 year old helicopter mechanic for the US Navy and will leave my name out for privacy reasons. Married to my amazing wife we have a house a dog and a cat as well as two ferrets. In the magical realms my name is Snow Ardnanthil the white, head of house Ardnathil, high noble over Ardnathil's lands the capital being Snow Hold. As well as the holdings of Stonemoor, the capital bearing the same name with a smaller city of Wheeldrin falling under. The world I am speaking of is Feirune. Yes D&D copied many things from real places. my home is east of Waterdeep. I live here with my family and servants who I consider and treat as my friends. How are you reading this on earth? well I live here too. The benefits of being able to separate ones astral form from his physical one. So you are probably thinking I'm making all this up and it's just me writing from the first person view, and that is where you are wrong. Believe me or not it doesn't matter, what matters is you enjoy reading this story of my life and adventures as a 21st century wizard.

Oh where to start? the point at which I was in the middle of deployment aboard an US naval guided missile destroyer where I met my magic instructor? or maybe farther back with my strange ability to see beyond the physical and into the "astral" or "metaphysical" relams? It's terrifying seeing the avatar of a demon lord and his minions in an abandoned mine shaft that was closed the previous month due to an accident on a tour. and how do you explain that to your parents growing up in a christian family. dreams and visions are accepted but claiming to see an ten foot tall demon lord is somehow written off as flights of fancy. growing up in Alaska I saw the northern lights quite a lot. witnessed a fight between an angel and a demon one night outlined clear as if painted in the sky. my grandfather and brother also saw this as it was not limited to the astral realm.

So at this point I want to make some things clear. God is real, heaven and hell are real. Dragons are real, along with Elves, Dwarves, Mermaids, Leprechauns, Kitsune, closet troles, pocket gnomes, fairies, Atlantis, all real. What happened that we can't interact with them here on earth anymore? The Atlanteans got greedy with magical power aaaand blew themselves completely out of spacetime. magical beings pretty much noped the fuck out after that taking everything with them and put up a barrier to prevent interaction. humans being the freaks we are poses two forms, astral and physical. Physical stuck here astral we can go wherever. Want to go to earthsea? learn to astraly project effectively enough and you can go. Keep on the down low though, magic, not so common there. Feyrune a bit more accepting of magic but not super common ether. Also don't cause problems I have to sort out later please.

So those dreams you have of being somewhere magical? The ones that seem so real? yeah you probably unconsciously projected to a realm. I had to send one guy home because he was running around the mountains behind my home dressed as link cutting down bushes and almost got attacked by a bear. the issue with learning how to do this intentionally is you not only can see elves and dwarves but you can also bump into much nastier things if you don't ward yourself well. I have the benefit of being Moon, Sun, and Earth touched so I can draw on all three energies to keep my warding barriers at full strength.

I guess the best place to start is my actual magical training aboard a DDG in the middle of the Persan Gulf. I was in the middle of writing another book pure work of my imagination but when I showed one older guy who I thought was just a D&D nerd. He kept giving me weird looks as I explained how the mechanics of magic worked in my book along with the types of creatures and their attributes and mentalities. His first question was "where did you study magic?" I looked at him and said I never had and this is just what made sense. His eyebrows shot up and he started asking questions about if I could see certain things. When I told him I had in the past he asked if I would like to officially learn magic. I agreed thinking he was going to try and show me card tricks. But no my first lesson was manipulating my own aura. this took me some time but once I figured it out I was able to project it out and interact with other people's auras with my own. This all happens on the astral plane so no one else can physically see it, as with most of what I will talk about.

I kept practicing and within a month I was able to use the four elemental types of magic. I also had a book on my phone from my instructor. I will not name it as the form of magic I practice has very few relations to what was taught in said book. My quick grasp of magical concepts and practice intrigued and slightly perturbed my instructor. I had a natural knack for magic but my third eye was in a state of partial opening so everything had a blurry appearance until I learned how to open it completely. From there things accelerated faster, my astral form sprouted feathered wings. I learned I was Phoenix kin meaning I had a natural affinity for the magic type and if paired with one I could use the unique abilities that the mythical bird possessed. my instructor is dragon kin but through a chance encounter he had saved a phoenix queen by the name of Euphemia and they were friends, though friends between dragons and phoenixes is rare it does happen. Now I won't bore you with every detail but Euphemia decided to test me and asked my instructor to entrust me with a very young chick who had yet to learn speech. phoenixes grow rapidly and within a week she had gone through her first reincarnation. This entails bursting into flames burning to ash and re emerging as a chick again and over night growing to the size they were when the reincarnation happened then they continue to grow normally.

While I spent nearly every minute with Seraphina I practiced everything I had learned and then beyond. I was laughed at constantly by most of the people I told about my magic lessons and my "familiar" man was I naive. My instructor had periodically allowed me to borrow some of his extensive magical energy well I am adept at adapting to new things. this became evident one day as I suddenly grew a second pair of wings and a tail as I rolled my shoulders. Seraphina came unglued "DRAGON DRAGON DRAGON" and then poof she left. Saraphina is a triple attribute Phoenix meaning she is a mutant equivalent to an albino and unable to reproduce. she is a fire, frost fire, and arclight combination. After this incident I had to speak with my instructor who talked to Euphemia and I was able to convince Seraphina to come back after which she was formally bonded as my partner which was a deviation of the original plan for her to just be a trial run for me to adopt a different chick. But we got along so well we didn't want to separate.

One day the seas were getting rough and we were told there was a storm coming but we had to clean the aircraft. much like a big charity car wash every one grabs a sponge and we scrub off all the exhaust soot, salt spray, and dirty hand prints. well I didn't feel like getting any wetter than I had to on this particular day so I performed some "cloudbusting". I was unaware how potent my barriers and cloudbusting would be. w sailed directly through the storm front which tundered, raind a spat lightning out a few miles around us on all sides though there was a prominent V shape to the clouds ahead of the ship that plowed through the storm as we went. after twelve hours my magic was still active and I had to dispel it before too much suspicion arose. when I met my instructor a few hours later he looked at me over his glasses and sighed. "You have no concept of the word subtle do you?" he asked and I apologized saying it was not my intention to cause a disruption in the physical plane that could be seen on radar and from space. "I just didn't want to get rained on while we washed the helicopter. I didn't realize I was going to cause a twelve hour disturbance in the flow of nature." his next question was how I pulled it off which I explained was simply combining wind magic, hard barriers, and condensing light energy to push the clouds aside and burn off new ones from forming over the ship.

A few days later Seraphina was sitting on my shoulder as I waited for the helicopter to spin up and fly off. As an aircraft mechanic I have to stand by incase the pilots need anything while they start the aircraft and run though their pre flight checks. It was hot in the sun so I lit myself on fire and switched to frost fire which sells like cool mint across the entire body, it's quite refreshing. I hear Seraphina say "uh-oh" and burst into flames. Inadvertently I had triggered her second reincarnation early. this didn't harm her but aged her forward by nearly three months. she started to act slightly strange after that progressively leaving for longer and longer periods of time. Always returning and sleeping near me at night. Watching a bird sleep on its back is a humorous sight. but something we bothering her now take into account she is the equivalent of an eighteen year old I figured she was just restless and wanted to explore.

Around this time I attempted an impossible combination of mixing water and fire. Well this yielded a forgotten and slightly taboo concoction know as Atlantean fire its a purple blue black flame that runs down like oil and burns stronger in water. It's also cold to the touch and should not be played with unless you have excellent magic controle. one day I hear Seraphina call me and look and she is sitting on one of our pieces of equipment in a very human form and very much naked. Also total package, five feet the inches tall, thirty inch hips, at most an eighteen inch waist, and 23D bust. fiery red gold hair to the middle of her back and natural long lashes and dark lining around her sapphire eyes. Not having a great day I created a cloak using magic and tossed it to her. and resumed working while I discussed with her the why, how, and who, of her learning to transform. She was very straightforward with me that she was attracted to me and had been trying to find something to give me as a gift when she had been visiting an elven village and met one of the residents who had taught her how to transform.

This intrigued me and I asked if I would be able meet this person, she disappeared and returned shortly after with a cute young adult elf female. It is at this point I should warn you my life took one unexpected turn after another and somewhat resembles some cheesy anime. This was in no way hindered by my mischievous magic instructor who played some part in many of these situations.