Wizard Lorff Research Paper

While standing on a grassy knoll, high in the hills which surround a majestic kingdom, an ancient looking wizard, with extensively long, bushy eyebrows, and dressed in an overly large flowing robe, flicked his right hand and extended index finger as though he were a maestro conducting a symphony. However, Wizard Lorff did not contain an iota of musical talent in his willowy body. Despite this fact, he was a sort of maestro, because with each nimble flick of his hand and finger, he conducted the broadsword floating aloofly in the air several meters away from him as it jabbed, slashed, parried, and dodged out of the way of its human held counterpart. Wizard Lorff was a maestro of incantations and magic. “I can move more adeptly then you, young …show more content…
“Besides young Elkin, if you are to be a wizard, as you say you want to be, then you need to take your training more seriously. No more of this fool-hearty sword pricking and prancing. You need to commit to your swordsmanship.” “Wizard Lorff, I do not understand why, if I am to be a wizard, I must learn swordsmanship. Don’t wizards wage battle from afar, like you just said? We have no business on a battlefield. Besides, sooner or later, you’ll have to teach me the incantation to make my sword dance like yours, won’t you?” Wizard Lorff exhaled a sigh of frustration at his wizardling. Inside of Elkin, the ability to be a great wizard was present, but his lack of commitment to the training and his constant questioning of Lorff’s directive had become the focal point of conversation of the Circle. It was the collective title for the wizards of the kingdom, and Lorff, being one of the eldest in the Circle, did not like that his wizardling’s behavior and lack of progress in his training had begun to reflect poorly on Lorff himself. “Less questioning and more obeying, Elkin. You have much work to do before learning the Dancing Sword incantation.” Lorff said