Hikosaburou

Hikosaburou was the most charming trainee the Rock Wizards had seen in a generation. They could coax a smile from the grimmest geomancer and often shared toasted marshmallows during lessons on monolith levitation. They treated their training in The Crystal Highlands of Armaria like a game. Then came the journey to a hidden spring rumored to channel the dreams of Namazu. Hikosaburou went seeking a pleasant vision, but the water showed them something else entirely: the memories locked inside the stones. They felt the sorrow of mountains witnessing empires fall and the silent ache of bedrock beneath ancient battlefields. Every crystal they had once so casually shaped was a silent witness. The marshmallow stick is still always there, but they chew on it now, unlit. The earth speaks to them constantly, and they don't know if they're meant to listen, or to answer.