Malin's first stop was to find Todd. The wizard was easy to locate thanks to the Wizard Council—Madam Dorothy merely needed to shake a scrying glass, and she would know where Todd was. And once Todd was found, how hard could it be to find someone else?
Malin showed him the badge, and the wizard immediately spotted the flaw—the badge was pristine, yet there were no burrs on the hammer. This was because, during the production of the first batch of badges, substandard metal was used. Even later, when Northernism had sufficient funds, they refused to rectify this detail. The burrs symbolized the hardships of the old era. Every Northernist, upon receiving their badge, would personally use sandpaper to grind off those burrs, signifying their act of erasing past suffering with their own hands.
