“Phantom is a vaehound. Like the vaekin, his kind are born of the energy of this world, and the first of their species was personally shaped by a Vaelora’s hand and infused with their magic. They don’t live and die in a natural way; their energy is more fluid, capable of something like reincarnation—much like the magic of the Vaelora themselves. Which is why you were able to keep him from dying, I suspect, even without your fully-realized powers. And why he regained even more of his form once he returned to this world. Because even though he’s able to find form and power in both worlds, this
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