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meridian_roseTitle: Secrets and Hidden Truths
Fandom: Legend of the Seeker
Pairing/Characters: Zedd
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 345
Prompt: For the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
legendland picture prompt challenge
Summary: To be a wizard is no easy thing.
Warnings: None
Also @AO3
To be a wizard is no easy thing.
Sometimes Zedd wonders what his life would have been like if he had not been born with magic running in his veins. If the chance of being First Wizard was never an option, would he have been more like Thaddicus? Stayed home, grown vegetables, struggled to make ends meet. Never travelled, never studied, never been lauded and cursed in equal measures.
It's no use, of course. He was born a wizard and his whole life has been shaped by that fact. Being a wizard means power and responsibility. Hard work as well as pleasurable opportunities. Hours spent studying, and practising the craft. With his gifts Zedd was able to help others, offering healing and helping crops grow. That too, might have been the sum of his destiny, had not his grandson been fated to become the One True Seeker. Zedd had to flee with the boy, and hide himself and his powers in the unmagical Hartland, waiting for the day he could reveal Richard's true identity and present him with the Sword of Truth.
That too, is part of wizardry. Secrets. Hiding the truth from those who would use it against you, against others under your protection. Cherishing the truth, finding and examining it, and revealing it at the right moment. Never sharing the deepest secrets of magic to the uninitiated who would do more harm than good with them. To walk between the worlds is not for everyone.
It's a necessary deceit, never revealing the fullest extent of your powers unless absolutely necessary. Let your enemies guess at your skills, let them overestimate you and cower, or underestimate you and bring about their downfall.
Once Zedd was young, brash and arrogant. He's mellowed with age, looks back on his life and choices with both pride and angst, shame and joy. He has Richard and Kahlan to share his secrets with now, and once more uses his skills to help people in need.
There are some secrets, however, some regrets, that he will take to the grave.
Fandom: Legend of the Seeker
Pairing/Characters: Zedd
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 345
Prompt: For the
legendland picture prompt challengeSummary: To be a wizard is no easy thing.
Warnings: None
Also @AO3
To be a wizard is no easy thing.
Sometimes Zedd wonders what his life would have been like if he had not been born with magic running in his veins. If the chance of being First Wizard was never an option, would he have been more like Thaddicus? Stayed home, grown vegetables, struggled to make ends meet. Never travelled, never studied, never been lauded and cursed in equal measures.
It's no use, of course. He was born a wizard and his whole life has been shaped by that fact. Being a wizard means power and responsibility. Hard work as well as pleasurable opportunities. Hours spent studying, and practising the craft. With his gifts Zedd was able to help others, offering healing and helping crops grow. That too, might have been the sum of his destiny, had not his grandson been fated to become the One True Seeker. Zedd had to flee with the boy, and hide himself and his powers in the unmagical Hartland, waiting for the day he could reveal Richard's true identity and present him with the Sword of Truth.
That too, is part of wizardry. Secrets. Hiding the truth from those who would use it against you, against others under your protection. Cherishing the truth, finding and examining it, and revealing it at the right moment. Never sharing the deepest secrets of magic to the uninitiated who would do more harm than good with them. To walk between the worlds is not for everyone.
It's a necessary deceit, never revealing the fullest extent of your powers unless absolutely necessary. Let your enemies guess at your skills, let them overestimate you and cower, or underestimate you and bring about their downfall.
Once Zedd was young, brash and arrogant. He's mellowed with age, looks back on his life and choices with both pride and angst, shame and joy. He has Richard and Kahlan to share his secrets with now, and once more uses his skills to help people in need.
There are some secrets, however, some regrets, that he will take to the grave.
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Date: 2012-12-05 01:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-05 01:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-05 03:59 pm (UTC)There are some secrets, however, some regrets, that he will take to the grave.
It's such a powerful closing line! It says so much and it's terrifying in its truth!
Love it! :D
Great job, bb! :D
*FLAILS*
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Date: 2012-12-05 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-05 09:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-07 11:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-09 10:48 pm (UTC)Never sharing the deepest secrets of magic to the uninitiated who would do more harm than good with them. To walk between the worlds is not for everyone. Zedd's right, and yet this still seems so snobbish - only the worthy are allowed to deal with this stuff.
There are some secrets, however, some regrets, that he will take to the grave. Perfect last line :D
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Date: 2012-12-11 02:05 pm (UTC)The picture is the reason for the 'walk between the worlds' line :D The tagline about secrets set the tone for the fic. I agree that it does seem elitist - but in character :)
Yay, I was pleased with that line, so I'm glad it works!