No, no, humans have a very passive magic and I was not satisfied with that. I developed the technique to attach oneself to the World Tree directly, the sacrifice being one's natural born Blessing of Fire. A small price, in my mind, given how many new and more active disciplines of magic opened up to me.

[He just looooves talking about magic, especially the kinds he developed. A proud man of many accomplishments... mostly bad, but undeniably impressive for him to have invented through study and testing.]

That was some... oh, more than forty years ago, now. That's quite a while, on a human time scale.