Mauromoo, the Dark Elf Sorcerer

(By Xav the Talkative, freelance journalist - payment by the line - working for the "Drum of Ganareth", a monthly bulletin released every now and then - but certainly not every month - in Al Drifa; also sold at the best news-agents throughout Ganareth)

DARK Elves don’t make the best sorcerers: you can then imagine how much Mauromoo had to work, how many times he lost his temper, in the heart of the deepest forests, trying to set wood on fire with his spells (on damp wood, you need at least level 5) or to move rocks (when you don’t have a mole at hand to push the rock from below, you might as well whistle for it. And yet, he kept on trying; eventually, the animals in the forest started to be afraid of him and his scary formula, that sometimes made fir trees grow acorns; sometimes, a squirrel would discover it had grown a pouch which was very useful to store food into. But this could be a problem when leaping from branch to branch: evolution, a wise equalizer, soon fixed the problem by having a random fox eat the marsupial squirrel. Though the poor fox could then expect stomach-aches as he had to then digest the fifty two nuts the squirrel had stored for his snack, shells included.

Hopefully, Skaarelius the Great came around (in fact, Mauromoo’s friends, the ones that hadn’t left, had sent him an urgent message, carried by homing crows, asking him to come as soon as possible, as a major catastrophe was about to occur). Skaarelius managed to focus Mauromoo’s energy and to turn him into a decent sorcerer. He wasn’t as good as the famous High Elf Lystermoth but quite efficient nonetheless. In order to provide him with better targets than forest acorns, he gave him the task to hunt the Undead which is quite an entertaining activity with a lot of thrill and that we cannot but advise to practice if you are a young person on the verge of becoming a delinquent.

Until the end of time, the Sixth Kingdom will remember when he came down for a visit. He was the best one to turn the Undead into the Dead. As the New Wars erupted, Mauromoo allied with Vuuar the Necromancer, and became one of the most powerful fighters of the Dark side.

As he felt he was growing old, he is rumored to have spread in different places what he used to call "worktools". One of these work tools is an Undead kneecap, endowed with a great power, that can destroy your hand if you touch it, unless you belong to the required side and caste. Can it be found at the famous place called "Mauromoo’s Circle"? That would be too easy...