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===Manifestation===

There is a loud, low rumble as air and dust seem to suck into a point of increasing brightness, as if watching an explosion in reverse as the form of a surprisingly frail-looking old man appears, one eye permanently sealed shut from a wound and his body inscribed with a thousand martial scripts in many languages.  As the implosion ends, he settles, feet never quite touching the ground as he picks up the martial book and pauses to read its contents, mumbling softly about how it is "an incomplete shadow" and "Reshar didn't go deep enough".  As you address him, he replies but never looks up from his intense studying.
Author	Eiji-kun +
Binding DC	23 +
Identifier	3.5e Vestige +
Level	5th +
Rating	Undiscussed +
Summary	A battle scholar who sought to learn all disciplines, he succeeded in a sense. But some disciplines were not meant to be handled by the limitations of mere human frames... +
Title	Philomactous the Forbidden Disciple +