"What the hell! Where am I?" I asked as I found myself floating in complete darkness.
'Oh right the earthquake, I guess I didn't escape the collapsing building. I guess the Christians were wrong, there is nothing for you after you die, just endless darkness.'
"Unless... Am I in hell?" I asked aloud not expecting a response, but I got one
"No, this is not hell" a voice answered.
"Whoa, are you in my head?" I asked aloud even though I knew he was speaking in my mind.
'It's not like I know how to go about speaking with my mind other than normal thoughts'
"Yes I am speaking to you in your head. As for where you are, this is Limbo. A place for dead souls who didn't want to die yet and have unfinished business." The voice explained.
"Well I certainly didn't want to die, but I can't say I had any unfinished business aside from saying goodbye to my family. But why am I alone? I can't be the only soul that didn't want to die and had unfinished business." I pondered.
"That is correct, you are not, but you were plucked from that group of souls due to the one thing that you had always wanted that fit with what I wanted to do." The voice explained.
"One thing that I always wanted? What was it?" I asked.
"You had always wanted to be reborn in another world just like those in the many stories you had read. I am here to grant that to you." The voice said.
"Why? Why are you doing this for me?" I asked curiously.
"Simply because I can, but are you really going to look a gift horse in the mouth?" The voice asked amusedly.
"Hell no I'm not!" I said excitedly.
The voice chuckled and then began another explanation.
"Okay, first things first, for simplicity's sake, you may refer to me as the creator. I am in charge of the universe of what you call the Lord of the rings. I will be giving you 3 boons to facilitate your survival in the world, which you will have the knowledge of after your rebirth."
"Aww I don't get to choose?" I asked dejectedly.
The creator seemed to pause as if in thought.
"Very well, you may not choose the boon itself, but what it is related to." He said.
"Then I want it to be related to magic, any kind of magic." I said.
"Ah, you wish to be one of the Istari. That can be arranged, I will simply change the world's history a little. When you leave this place you will meet with The Valar, my creations, and will be inducted with the other 5 Istari." He said.
"I understand." I said seriously.
"I bid you farewell and good luck."
After hearing the creator's last words, The voice faded as my "sight" went dark.
"Welcome Ithildin, to middle-earth. It is now that you must be called to defend against a terrible evil. I am Manwë, King of the Valar, I have been told by the creator Eru Ilúvatar that you are to be the strongest Maiar and will have magics the others can only dream of. The One has stated that your magics have been implanted inside you. Do take time to discover all that you can do." Manwë said as he walked off.
"Of course Elder King" i said to his retreating figure before finally seeing a river and able to see what I looked like.
I was very tall, probably around 6'5-6'6 I had jet black hair and a wooden staff that had a white-blue gem embedded in the top and was wearing a Long black cloak with silver lining the inside with blue runes flowing along the edges of the cloak.
'Damn I expected to be associated with Aulë- The Smith. To think I was with the King of the Valar, said to only be rivaled in power by his brother Melkor. It's seems that I have been given both memories of what is currently happening and some events from the creation of the world, to the events of LOTR that I know the most about.
Melkor was the antithesis of Manwë and an evil being dead set on ruling Arda. He has taken one of the Maiar(Istari) under his wing, thus being the creation of Sauron. Who was originally under Aulë along with Curumo (Saruman) it makes a bit more sense as to why they teamed up as they both used to have the same master.'
All of the sudden I was receiving all my memories on my magic. It seems that aside from normal magic that most of the Maiar can do, I have access to 'Dragon Magic' as Manwë and the others would call it. I have the magic from The Dragon Prince. Although it seems that it would be too world breaking to have all of the spells, but I have a decent amount of spells from the four main Primal Sources along with understanding of their Arcanum. I have knowledge of Sky, Earth, Sun, and Ocean Magics. I do have a little Moon magic, but it seems the Creator understood my personality and knew that I'd prefer fighting to creating illusions that Moon Magic is most known for. I did however receive some interesting Moon Magic. Many of these magics are powerful enough to go against even dragons which is amazing considering how weak the magic of the other Istari actually are.
I was called Ithildin by Manwë which means Starlight. I assume that was simply given due to my "closeness" with the creator.
It is the Third Age and Melkor is causing problems through Sauron. And it seems I will be an original member of the Five Guardian or Five Wizards. Although it will be six now.
"Well it is time to meet the other Maiar. I might as well make an entrance." I said to myself as I drew runes on my arms.
"Manus, Pluma, Volantus" I said and my arms turned into giant wings.
[AN: Will post pic in chapter comments.]