![]() ![]() Opal found herself reexamining the Guard’s real role in the empire. The noble ideas that Opal’s father had inculcated into her of loyalty to imperial house and empire began to fissure under the weight of cynicism. Opal’s unique magical education had allowed her to reinterpret many of the Guard’s enforcement actions as tyrannical plays to reinforce the status quo that rode roughshod over the peasantry. It often happens that the fastest way to lose one’s dreams is to achieve them, and so it proved for Opal whose stint as guardswoman and chaperone to some of the most important, or corrupt, aristocratic families in the empire or imperial house quickly gave rise to a sinking feeling of despair in Opal’s heart. Ankor nurtured Opal’s talents toward the crafting of the unique magical weapon she still uses today – a ranged lance imbued with such unusual energies as to have quickly earned her a very fast captaincy in one of the empire’s border guard regiments. It was in the Magical Artificer course at the Academy where Opal showed the most talent, earning the appreciation and friendship of her powerful mage-lecturer, Ankor. Alone and far from her overbearing father, Opal was free to discover other interests besides fighting. Yet Opal found something else as well: her first taste of freedom outside her family’s rigorous strictures. Opal’s physical dedication and natural intelligence soon won plenty of admiration at the Academy. This revelation culminated in Opal’s transfer to the Imperial Academy, where her exhausting martial arts training would now be complemented by spellcasting. Her father’s crushing defeat in the Imperial Jousting Tournament at Lasir soldier Vance’s hands, whose magical abilities proved physical skills would never produce the mightiest warriors in the empire, proved a rude awakening. This imbued Opal’s early life with an extraordinary sense of parental expectation, reinforced when Opal was a mere 4 year old toddler with a dedicated training regimen combining military discipline, swordsmanship, and martial arts into the finest military education the imperium could offer as to hopefully transform Opal into one of its finest warriors. ![]() Opal was fortunate enough to be born into a family with an unusually dignified pedigree – both her parents were captains within the Hirschbuck Empire’s Capital Guard.
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