Pagan: The Beginning of Wisdom

The Avatar is a bit slow. Plot check: The Avatar has been stranded on the world of Pagan by the Guardian, who continues to taunt him with hints about the devastation he is inflicting on Britannia while the Avatar tries to find a way back. (How are we supposed to regard these jeers? Are they audible to others? Just in the Avatar's head?) The Avatar has learned from a thaumaturgist named Mythran that to escape Pagan, he will need to master the native forms of magic, each aspected to an element, each dominated by an elemental titan. The Avatar has learned necromancy (earth magic) and has risen to the rank of second-in-command of the necromancers, of whom there seem to be two. He has not learned tempestry (water magic), but he has freed the elemental titan of water, Hydros, from her ancient prison, and she has vowed exact revenge on the city of Tenebrae and the descendants of the tempest who imprisoned her. He has made tentative contact with the sorcerers (fire magic) and has learned that…