Hey everybody, it's your dungeon master, Bobby Shortel. Back here for one last interlude before we're back on the main adventure.

This time, we've got the secret origins of Julian Wingate. I hope you all really enjoy it.

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Let's get back to Julian and his origins.

Music Well, right now you're level five.

You're, well, right now you're level five right now. Oh, okay. Um, and you're

going to level up twice today. You are going to get another second, no, sorry, another,

another, another, another third level spell slot and one fourth level cell spell slot.

I haven't got any fours yet. No, this is your first four.

This is your first spell slot.

Okay, so your arcane tradition, which is abjuration, you, at six level,

when a creature that you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to cause

your arcane ward to absorb that damage. If this damage reduces the ward to zero hit points,

the warded creature takes any remaining damage. Um, yeah. Sort of reflective. Yeah, yep.

I like that. I could have. Hmm. I like that.

I could have used that.

I could say how many times I've been laying in a heap on the ground.

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