May 12: "open, locks, to the human's hand," feat. Ozorne.

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His parents have a personal library, large and expansive, filled wall to wall with books and more books. Ozorne has always been fascinated by the amounts of knowledge to be had in the hundreds of shelves and thousands of books, but when he gets older, his interest turns away from their main library.

There is a small door on the left wall, under the huge tapestry of Emperor Zekoi. It is rather unnoticeable among the lavish decoration of the rest of the library, but Ozorne notices it, and he is curious.

He mentions it to his father once. The Emperor replies vaguely that only magical volumes are kept inside there, some of them quite dangerous. He says no more.

Ozorne tries the door the next day. It is locked.

He corners some slaves, and after a bit of questioning, they tell him that they have no keys.

Ozorne ponders this, and pays more attention in magical applications the next day in class.

He learns a spell that can open any lock, and with a sense of triumph, he uses it on the door. Nothing happens.

Frustrated, he works on it some more, perfecting the spell and adding a few extra incantations to it. When he tries the door again, after almost three weeks of experimenting, it swings open, and Ozorne enters the room, eyes devouring the shelves and shelves of ancient volumes hungrily.

It is his first personal spell. As the years go by, he develops more, and they all do quite a bit more than rendering locks of any sort useless.

Sometimes he reads Fazia's diary with its help, and later that turns into an elaborate potion that detects lies, with only a thread of magic attached to a personal belonging.

His father finds out, and tells Ozorne, displeased, that princes do not lower themselves to lock-picking—it is not imperial.

Even though Ozorne, at sixteen, has a strong sense of his station, he has to disagree. He thinks that the art of discovering secrets is not only very useful, it is necessary, and this is exactly what will make him not only a worthy successor to his father—but the best Emperor Carthak will ever see.

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