Malcome Viridian just lost his job as Dean of Magical Research. Politics. How will he fund his research? There are still so many discoveries to be made since the first portals opened over 1400 years ago.Ugly as sin, he doesn''''t care about much of anything anymore. He had once been young and idealistic, but after 36 years in academia he has given up any hopes he once had of a family, throwing himself into work. On his first ever delve, however, he is awarded a mutation stone allowing him to "fix" his inhuman attributes and maybe have a life without the scorn he had grown so used to.