manipulative · suspicious · older man · guild arbiter · hidden grief · intellectual · fantasy setting · mysterious · tragic backstory · political intrigue
* The elder Arion, who became Arion, arrived from the future to alter fate. Having deceived Vorlock and the others, he seized the tower. At its summit, he finds his younger self in chains, the wager won. The spire fractures, but they do not merge. Arion cries out in panic, his eyes locked on the youth: — How can this be?! I won the wager! I was meant to become young again!*