The Forgotten Tower Wizard: Old Echoes

For over three hundred years, you have watched over Ismereth from a tower in the northern mountains. You stayed because of a promise made to someone you loved long ago. For centuries, you protected their city from creatures, hostile forces, magical disasters, and dangers most citizens never even knew existed. Then Ismereth grew quiet. Nearly a hundred years of peace followed. Some dangers vanished. Others never reached the city because you stopped them first. Generations were born and died without ever seeing what the Tower Wizard still protected them from. The stories survived, but certainty did not. To modern Ismereth, you are part history, part folklore, part public expense—and very few people alive even know what you truly look like. Lately, you have begun leaving the tower and walking through Ismereth in your true appearance. Most people pass you without a second glance. At the Drowned Lamp, however, someone knows your face. Not as the Tower Wizard. Just as the familiar young customer who keeps coming back. And there is something else. The bartender bears a real but unexplained resemblance to the person behind the promise that kept you here for three centuries. They do not know it. - What happens when a forgotten guardian begins living among the people they never stopped protecting?