He was a skinny Asian.
Their first child was beautiful and almost white.
With penetrating blue eyes like his father.
They named him Emmanuel Rights Jefferson.
Just like the city of Jefferson, in what used to be the state of Missouri.
His family called him Emo.
Emo prospered in mind and spirit, but soon discovered he was different from other children.
At school, while the other children had difficulty casting basic spells of transition, Emo found that he could change to a different species with a thought rather than going through the verbose incantation the spell required from other children.
Not wanting to appear different, Emo kept his ability secret.
And such were the state of events until his thirteenth year when the school was beset with the blight of Crisivaya. The blight was thought to originate as a practical joke among the students of the high collegueum, but it effects where almost devastating on the students of Emo's class. For the spell of transition operated under the basic principle of ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny--that is if you go through the incantation to change from a human to an eagle, your body form during the spell must first revert to the lowest evolutionary form of the eagle--the embryo in the egg to the smallest eaglet before one can transition into the adult eagle.
Crisivaya, and its many variations, without application of the proper counter spell, left the fledgling magic user stuck in one of the many precursors of the eagle. Which was definately a problem given that Jefferson--the town where Emo resided--was stuck within vast predatory laden jungle which now comprised what was formerly the continent of North America.
Emo saved his class who were all stuck in some seminal form of animal, and soon became a living legend. But that was only the beginning.
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