5204 FY | 1204 AD
We begin in Noxchester, Sheba, for nearly two centuries, the witches and wizards in the Sheba Union have been enjoying their love affair with potion-making. Potions are popular because anyone can benefit from them, you don’t have to be blessed with a specific talent to take advantage of these new concoctions. New potions were being created every day. Everyone wanted to experiment with this new form of magic.
In Noxchester, gobliness witch Fessma Wygtask is able to successfully create a potion which can allow somebody to temporarily morph into another person. She proves this by taking potion herself and transforming into King Diemrot right in his throne room. The delighted King of the Sheba Union declares that this potion shall be named Mutroma Milk.
The potion itself is actually more of a sticky syrup-like consistency to it. In this primitive state, Mutroma Milk can only transform a person for about a minute. That’s still enough for King Diemrot to approve Fessma’s request to continue refining the potion. But there’s a problem.
One of the most important ingredients to brewing Mutroma Milk is the scales of an albino abac. An abac is an alligator-like beast that is normally dark green in color. They have a face that kind of looks like a cat crossed with a pig and an arched back layered with sharp scales down the spine. Albino abacs are extremely rare and because of that their scales are expensive.
Fessma researches the animal and finds that two albino abacs mating have a greater chance of resulting in an albino pup. She also finds that the largest albino abac population is in the southern continent of Astar in land claimed by the rival Sirencaster Empire.
Albino abac scales are highly valuable in many potions, so the Sirencasters are extremely protective over their holdings. So Fessma hatches a plan. She will go to Sirencaster and steal albino abacs then take them back to Sheba.
Her mission is dangerous. The punishment for stealing from the Sirencaster Empire is death. Fessma really is taking her life into her own hands. Fessma couldn’t wander into a foreign kingdom as herself, she took twelve vials of pre-brewed Mutroma Milk to disguise herself. Each of these vials will only allow her to transfrom for one minute so she has to use them sparingly. She is undertaking this mission alone, she has no backup from knights of the Sheba Union. If she’s caught homegirl is on her own.
In Gemini of 5204 she arrives in the capital of Opus, Sirencaster as a witch from a peaceful nation of Unitisia, there to purchase their color-changing multichromatic fabric. There she puts her plan into motion.
In the dead of night, Fessma uses the first vial to quickly pass as a royal guard to gain entrance to the albino abac pen. She casts sleeping spells over the guards so she can slip in and seize an armful of eggs. Abac eggs are about the size of a fist and appear like animal droppings to confuse predators. Sex for abacs is also determined by the temperature these eggs are kept at. With no way of knowing how these eggs were kept, she needs to also procure two pups of different genders.
Now, how would you like it if someone came into your house and kidnapped your children? Not very much right. The adult abacs are no exception and charge at Fessma as she escapes with two pups. The Sirencasters are alerted to her presence as a reserve team of guards arrive to investigate the commotion.
Fessma has to use six vials to pass through their ranks undetected, but she should have used a seventh because one of the guards sees her transform back into herself and gives chase. It’s here in this pursuit that Fessma discovers a nasty side effect of her potion. Using Mutroma Milk too many times has left her in a drunken state as she struggles to stay on her feet long enough to get out of the city. Thanks to her remaining storage of the potion she’s able to get out without being caught and charter a ship back to Sheba.
With her mission a success, Fessma earns great riches and notoriety for her work on Mutroma Milk. The albino abac she stole is the first of Sheba’s profitable trade business and becomes the cornerstone of their economy. But Fessma isn’t the same gobliness she was upon her return to Sheba. Another unintended side effect of the Mutroma Milk she took causes her skin to change shades, her nose and ears grow and shrink in size, and her sex continually shifts from male to female. In short, the Mutroma Milk has thrown her DNA out of whack and her physical features remain in a constant shift for the rest of her life.