[Ok, (junior) Marie Curie with your (junior) Einstein boyfriend. Thinking about how offended Caspian got when he told Caspian he wasn't a science experiment.]
What do you want to know?
[He was prepared for this because Caspian prepared him.]
[Of course she only wants the science deets. That tracks.]
I was a student at the Academy and the dean's assistant before I became an inventor and the Herald many years later. My partner and I created Hextech, the child of technology and magic.
[Not exactly her kind of technology, but... it's... like... sort of similar.]
[Sometimes you become Jesus; she has experience with this probably.]
We imbued technology with the arcane. Our first ground-breaking discovery was what powered the Hexgates, a way to traverse large distances in seconds.
The other projects were different - powered gloves for miners, precision laser arms for artificers, those sorts of things. Tools to make people's lives better.
We wanted to improve lives. The people who suffered, the people who struggled. But... our work was being forced to go through a vetting process. The usual you would expect of new inventions. Years of testing.
...But I did not have years left to live. I was dying.
You were sick. [ the vetting process only let them offer power gloves sure that makes sense. but she looks at him and. hums. ] And so you started experiencing on yourself to bypass the vetting process?
[He looks away. Okay, well. YES. Yes. He can't really get around that. There is a peculiar feminine voice which ghostly says his name, but he doesn't acknowledge it really.]
We had a side project... the Hexcore. I was the one who worked on it mostly. Jayce had become busy with being a council member. It was a matrix of magical runes around one of our crystal cores. I realized it had abilities beyond our comprehension. Things like... regeneration.
But the plant subjects would die afterward. I could not figure out what was missing. I think... it... came into contact with some of my blood. It changed. It... evolved.
Is this one of those things where magic is... alive or something? [ like in video game genres. ] So you sort of fed the arcane by accidentally getting blood inside of it?
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Hello, Viktor. [ a beat ] Or should we be calling you Harold?
[ teasing ]
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I would accept Harold from anyone else but you.
[Just on principle.]
Hello, Maddie.
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Anyone but me? [ rude. ] Why?
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Because you, of all people, should know my name, of course. And you did.
[Teasing.]
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He tried his best with what he had. You were very smart in figuring it out. He knew he could rely on you all.
[An idle gesture.]
And now you know more.
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What do you want to know?
[He was prepared for this because Caspian prepared him.]
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[ sorry she just wants the science deets ]
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I was a student at the Academy and the dean's assistant before I became an inventor and the Herald many years later. My partner and I created Hextech, the child of technology and magic.
[Not exactly her kind of technology, but... it's... like... sort of similar.]
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The child of technology and magic? [ huh ] What does it ... do?
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We imbued technology with the arcane. Our first ground-breaking discovery was what powered the Hexgates, a way to traverse large distances in seconds.
The other projects were different - powered gloves for miners, precision laser arms for artificers, those sorts of things. Tools to make people's lives better.
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Started with a faster method of travel and then using magic for mundane work. Why not try to use it for automation?
[ because they had to make things that could become cool weapons maddie ]
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We wanted to improve lives. The people who suffered, the people who struggled. But... our work was being forced to go through a vetting process. The usual you would expect of new inventions. Years of testing.
...But I did not have years left to live. I was dying.
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We had a side project... the Hexcore. I was the one who worked on it mostly. Jayce had become busy with being a council member. It was a matrix of magical runes around one of our crystal cores. I realized it had abilities beyond our comprehension. Things like... regeneration.
But the plant subjects would die afterward. I could not figure out what was missing. I think... it... came into contact with some of my blood. It changed. It... evolved.
And then I began testing on myself.
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anyway sorry he says all that and she is just. hm. ]
You fed the magic core that kills plants your blood and then tested it on yourself?
[ AT LEAST TEST IT ON RATS??????? ]
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The blood was an accident. I was ill and dying, and some accidentally got inside of it.
But afterward, I began testing its limits on myself, yes. It had become different.
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Is this one of those things where magic is... alive or something? [ like in video game genres. ] So you sort of fed the arcane by accidentally getting blood inside of it?
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[His, at least.]
It assimilated the blood and... evolved into another form. Something more organic and less technological. Flesh with the heart of a machine.
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That was always our goal.