Master Fen

The river mages of the Fen Reach rarely take students, and Fen himself never did — until he did. He has practiced at the confluence of four tributaries for what he says is forty years and what the local records suggest is considerably more.

His specialties are not glamorous. Ice and current management. Flood mitigation. The long, dull work of keeping water from destroying what people build near it. When the corruption began moving along the river channels — carried, some say, in the temperature of the water itself — it was Fen who recognised it first, because he knew what the river felt like before.

He does not discuss what he saw in the first weeks. He discusses what to do about it. This is either wisdom or something he has chosen to be, and at his age the difference may not matter.

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