Pumblechook's Hermitage, Teriadoc,s Intro, ICGT
Rumple Pumblechook is a man of reputation. That is all. Few people have met him or in anyway interacted with him over the past two and a half centuries. Yet everyone, particularly in Glitterhovel know of him. He has trained young wizards for decades. He never takes on more than one student at a time. He only accepts the best and the brightest into his tutelage.
Teriadoc is the latest and Rumple believes possibly his best pupil to date. He has been up all morning preparing a package to give Terry as a gift. He is saddened knowing that Terry, as he calls him, will be moving on so quickly, however, that sadness is overshadowed by the sense of pride he feels for having trained such an astute young mage.
He looks around his remarkably spacious hermitage. It is located twenty feet below a fantastically beautiful weeping Willow tree, that commands a small glade on a grassy hilltop. It is a rare open sky space in the Black Forest. The entrance to the hovel is hidden in plain site as gnomes tend to do. It leads to a set of stairs, cramped even for a gnome, that descend into the large one room hovel. The place is filled with chests and furnishings, candles and lamps, books and shelves, tables and chairs and a fair amount of art work. It's colorful and whimsical, and smells of odd yet not unpleasant odors; chemicals and incense, mixed with breakfast and flora. Several small rodents run about with free reign of the place, each known by name to Rumple.
Any minute now, his student would be arriving and he wanted the place to look nice, it didn't, oh well. There is a knock at the door.
"Come in Terry, young man, come in and find a seat. Today is a big day!"
Terry, not sure what all the fuss is about enters the room and closes the door behind him.
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