Welcome, Crach Ffinnant, to the year 2025. It has been over six hundred years since you last materialised on Earth. How are you adjusting to the changes?
‘It does seem a long time in the scheme of things. Six hundred years have passed with a wink of an eye for me, but for you, yes, it is a very long time indeed. As a dwarf, I am accustomed to change; as a magician, prophet, and seer, I embrace it. Change is forever constant. This was a lesson Llywd ap Crachan Llwyd taught me centuries past, one people would do well to learn today.
The most striking difference for me is the lack of active magic, the absence of living in harmony with nature, and all the beauty this adds to life. Folks have much to consider in this hectic world, and a preponderance of darkness shadows minds. Folks have always been greedy throughout time, a failing of mankind we all know, but in the world now, this greed is true madness. I am amazed at how much of nature, as I knew it, has disappeared, replaced by such huge, sprawling cities. The forests…. where are the forests? The bears, wolves and dragons, where are they?
So, adjustment is a necessity and cannot be ignored. Change has been astronomical as I see it, and lost or hidden is the magic to be lived. My purpose in returning after hundreds of years is to light souls with love, honour and humility. Justice will always prevail.’
Lazarus Carpenter - Author 