So the young goblin takes the Crimson Mantle and puts it on. The spirit urges the young goblin to take his cloak and put it on, which draws a protest from the young goblin, as the High Priest's cloak is the Crimson Mantle, the symbol worn by their god's High Priest, but the ghost points out that with the slaughter going on, soon the young apprentice may be the only cleric left. With the High Priest's body momentarily forgotten, the youth goes back and sees the ghost of his old teacher near its former body.
After his death, the humans move to wipe out all of the other villagers still around. He kills several of them but is soon swarmed by the attacking humans and before long is very thoroughly dead. The High Priest urges the confused youth to run, while the High Priest calls attention to himself and tries to hold off the human attackers. The goblins attempt to fight back, but are no match for the paladins and clerics attacking them. Eventually, he comes up with one that he likes: Xykon. As he goes to kill the rest of his family using the zombies of Xavion and his grandmother, the boy does conceed that everything else aside, Xavion had a cool name, and he should adopt a similar one. He abruptly murders the wizard, turns him into a zombie, and decides it's time to cut ties to his life and leave home forever. The boy is against the idea of going, both due to the wizard's condescending attitude and a disinterest in helping other people who fear and distrust him.
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Xavion has a school though, where he gives these sorcerers a place to learn how to control their abilities and then use them for good.
Sorcerers aren't often looked kindly upon, since many discover their abilities early in life and use it to pursue selfish goals, so people often mistrust and fear young sorcerers. Xavion explains to the boy about sorcerers and wizards, and that the boy is a sorcerer, someone to whom the use of magic comes naturally, without the study that wizards must use to control it. The boy tries to deny having any strange powers, but when his closet is opened to reveal the zombie of his grandmother standing there, craving brains, it's a little hard to deny. Xavion tells the boy that the boy's parents asked him to come and talk to the boy about his powers. Years later, the boy, now a sullen teenager, comes home from school to find a middle aged, handicapped, bald wizard named Xavion in his room. There's a beat panel, and then the boy exclaims with malicious glee over how "cool" that was and goes off to find more birds for his dog to eat. The boy is overjoyed to have his dog back, until a bird flies nearby and the dog attacks and immediately devours it. While the boy is confused by what happened, his dog stands back up, clearly zombified. He begs the dog to "come back" and suddenly a jolt of energy goes through his body and into the dog. The story starts about 100 years before the start of the comic, with a four year old boy mourning the death of his dog. This is for The Order of the Stick prequel volume.
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