The Betrayer

The Betrayer starts immediately following the events of The One.

The powerful wizard they call Maxwell was not wrong, he granted Wilson unimaginable power. Wilson spent a few months becoming acquainted with that power. He had moments where he was genuinely terrified of his power, though his teacher and mentor Maxwell kept him together. Wilson was told by Maxwell that he needed him to design a staff. This staff was necessary to complete the project that Maxwell had started, and he thought that with Wilson’s knowledge of science and magic he could finally finish it. The staff would serve as a key, or more accurately, a transmitter. It would transmit an activation code to a wall that surrounds the plateau/mountain, when raised and activated, it creates a pocket dimension that can only be passed through with the use of the transmitter/staff. The staff will transmit the activation code from a gem inside the staff, specifically, the Gem of Sealing. Maxwell came to Wilson with these requests and Wilson dug his heels in and started coming up with a way to make it work. The wall would provide protection from foes, if any still existed beyond the plateau. Wilson worked for long days and nights, consulting ancient literature in Wickerbottom's new library. He read of the old society before the Great Dying and of their magical weapons that their soldiers used in the Light and Shadow War. These weapons were powerful, using powerful elemental magic from enchanted metals, these metals were not nearly as powerful as a gem but the soldiers who fought for the shadows had little understanding of the use of enchantments in weapons. Only when the shadow's followers learned of the true power of enchantments for an army did the lights steamroll halt. Though Wilson was not building the weapon, the enchantments used by those ancient weapons had nowhere close to the power that Maxwell requires to form the pocket dimension. So Wilson began modifications to fit a staff to hold the Gem of Sealing that did not yet exist. He spent several days working with a skeleton slave that operated the forges in the lower level of the castle, almost everyone lost track of him in his frantic research to finish Maxwell's project until he had done it. He and the skeleton were able to forge a functioning prototype after dozens of failed tests with even the tamest of gems. This prototype could withstand every potency category of gem and was able to project all manner of necessary spells. Maxwell was very pleased with Wilson’s progress and was ready for him to finish the wall. Despite his progress, Wilson was wary of how it might end when he rose the wall, would he be set free? Or had he just been played for a fool? He just needed to work at the gem forge and make the Gem of Sealing and all his work would come to fruition. And so he did, he spent many more days with incantations and cantrips, working a piece of bluestone to make the Gem of Sealing. Maxwell watched carefully as Wilson was in the final hours of the project, waiting, with his lust for power growing every second.