"Hey, now for me! Yea, harken back 150 years or so. 'At's when I was a mere lad, an' I used t' go about doin' minor magics even then. Useta show th' other kids how t' jump real far an' suchlike, though I was always the best. So one day these August mages come in my town, an' they see me doin' summa me levitatin' so they say to my pa, 'this boy's got a gift, we'd like to take him to our magic academy, for we need more strong-minded young mages', my pa wasn't all sure, after all, he did need me to tend to the family farm, but the mages just raised 'im a golem an' that was that. Doubt the old man ever had to work again.
So anyway, I'm a real good student at the old academy an' I pass the basic courses with flyin' colors. Next thing you know, I'm teachin' there! But lemme tell you, August Academy is real set in its ways. I was showin' my students how to throw hot steam at things when some o' the high mages come in an' tell me off, sayin' I wasn't stickin' enough to the curriculum. it was true, o'course, It was a pyromancy class, but I figured steam drew its energy from fire, right? Apparently they just want me to do dry fire. So when I explain it to 'em, they get all huffy about how the August school o' magic has high standards for discipline, an' if I wasn't gonna follow the rules, how could I expect my students to? I told 'em i didn't expect my students to follow stupid rules like 'only teach dry fire in a pyromancy class' if there was some way to innovate! So they kicked me out o' there right quick, an' had me blackballed in all the other magic trades, so I was forced to beg and do magic tricks for a livin' and that doesn't pay well.
So here I am today, old an' ragged but I keep on goin'!
I don't expect to be dead anytime soon. I got magic in my blood still! hey, maybe a bit o' adventurin'd do me good. Get me back up to me old strength again. It's worth a shot, eh? To Radafel with Palyverulos per-August!"
Pally turns then to the drunk who has just appeared.
"Sit you back down, ye sot! No good comes o' threatenin' a mage, an' you'd know that if you wasn't a drunken fool."