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+<color #993333>Creatures</color> that through his hands pass,\\
+All change their functions,\\
+Invoking wonder peerless.
+He once removed his hat, as others witnessed,\\
+The walked on the hat over water, with success.\\
+They also saw him light a flare, fearless,\\
+Instead creating chilling cold air not so harmless.
+That bird was once a toy,\\
+And now his messenger...\\
+Or perhaps still a toy.
+That is the magic trick of his success,\\
+And one of his teachings that he will profess.\\
+//<color #993333>"Nothing in this world is ever born fixed."</color>//
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+The far-seeing must be far in thought.\\
+His teachings are like prophetic delight,\\
+Yet he opposes prophecies with all his might.
+It's a time he refrains from looking back on —
+Traveling all lands, chasing prophecies,\\
+Trying to prove the priests' words were not unchangeable foresight.
+Countless times, he exhausted his crafty sleights.
+Wanting to rescue the doomed and resurrect wights.\\
+Wanting to shame the prophesied heroes of magic and might.\\
+Wanting to sway promised villains to a course more upright.
+Perhaps fate could not guess his goals,\\
+But it could trample over his plans overnight —
+At the end, all his challenges flicker out,\\
+But he persists still, in endless plight.
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+His ambitions are too lofty,\\
+And so failure follows him never too softly.
+Through moments of defeat, felt increasingly common,\\
+The scholar learned one thing he has never forgotten —
+Respond to defeat with a smile haughty.
+Not from optimis,\\
+Nor from a defeat of the heart...
+//<color #993333>"I thank this misfortune's severity."</color>//\\
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+The laughter oozes with self-mockery,\\
+But is also full of a different emotion...
+//<color #993333>"If this road is easy to walk, then future generations will not praise my name in piety."</color>//\\
+— Says his ambition.