The Four Orphans: Aurin and Moug

 Today I am going to talk about more characters from The Four Orphans. This post will focus on two of the orphans, Aurin and Moug and their supporting characters on their part of the story.

 

Aurin and Moug meet each other early in the story and become friends. After Orion Karr attacks the Elemental Order of Wizards they flee together and begin the quest to find the artifacts of power.

 

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 Andira is a fairy that Aurin met when he was a child. She was his only real friend growing up. It was Andira who discovered Moug living in the hills near the Elemental Order Academy and introduced him to Aurin. Andira left the fairy realm looking for adventure and she was sure she would find with with Aurin one day and Moug's arrival only strengthened that resolve.

 Archmage Cristofol is the headmaster of the Elemental Order of Wizards Academy. He was Aurin's mentor and primary parental figure growing up. When Orion Karr attacks, Cristofol is badly injured and is not able to follow Aurin on his quest. For many years Cristofol guarded secrets about the legendary artifacts, he entrusts that information to Aurin as he sets out.

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 Not long after leaving the Elemental Order, Aurin and Moug come across a wizards monastery belonging to an order called the Puritas Album. The white wizards take them in and introduce them to Kayla, a young oracle in their care. Kayla uses her visions to direct them to where they can find an ally on their quest. Aurin is quickly enamored with Kayla. Andira is delighted by the potential romance. Moug however is more concerned about the motivations of the white wizards who he does not trust.

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 The party follows Kayla's visions and it does lead them to an ally, but not the sort they were expecting. Most adventurers are not interested in aiding a group that has no money to offer. The only one interested at all is an old drunk minotaur warrior named Stalivus. He has reached an age where he seeks a noble death and the quest Aurin and Moug are on sounds like a good way to find one.

 And I will finish off this post with an image of the group that was done for me by an artist on deviantArt. I looked into my files and it seems my old commission file record is missing. It must have been misplaced when I transferred files over to the new computer so it will take some time to find the names of some of the artists. These collages also include images I made on heromachine, heroforge, several dress up games, and a few AI generated images.