2e:Nebula

In the highest halls of the most esteemed institutions, the greatest of sages ply their trade answering the most fundamental of questions. With stacks of tomes at hand, and spirited debate ever at the ready, they delve deep into matters ranging from the histories of fallen empires to the origins of life itself. Upon the latter, of course, there are countless theories, and the one to eventually find sufficient evidence will certainly earn its proponents the peerless satisfaction of proving their rivals wrong. Or, perhaps, they will meet the same fate as the hapless scholar who made the astonishing discovery that mortalkind and stardust are made of essentially the same stuff. Each side in the larger debate latched on to this as evidence for their own conclusions, leaving the revelation itself a charming but inconclusive curiosity.

But if life is born of stardust, might not the reverse also be true? Such was the eccentric line of reasoning that no doubt drove the first Nebula to pursue her unusual calling. Gathering the vital energy available to any gravimancer, and a wildly modified fertility rite, she calculated the precise methods required to gestate not a child of flesh and blood, but a fledgling star. The experiment was a wild success. It grew, as stars are wont to do, and radiated a phenomenal power in tune with the gravimancer's own.

Few are willing to endure the raging energies of a stellar child, but such is the path you have chosen to walk. And perhaps you quirk a smile when you hear a child tell a disbelieving parent of the time they saw a star shoot up.