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therookery2018-05-09 12:31 am
dashing) wrote in therookery2018-05-09 12:31 am
009.
FORM: crystal
SENDER: Herian
RECIPIENT: ALL
WHAT: new location unlocked
WHEN: sometime after the proposed rifter phylactery research announcement & Thranduil's post
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: Chantry memorial is complete! IC post from a while back, a location information post and visual reference.
SENDER: Herian
RECIPIENT: ALL
WHAT: new location unlocked
WHEN: sometime after the proposed rifter phylactery research announcement & Thranduil's post
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: Chantry memorial is complete! IC post from a while back, a location information post and visual reference.
Good morrow, Inquisition.
( Herian always sounds even and controlled. It's her own personal cliche, on par with "it was a dark and stormy night." Now, however, it takes on a new dimension, a suggestion of flatness that could be tiredness, or could be... something else. )
I bring good tidings. Though there were those who felt the loss of the Hightown forest keenly, the fire cleared the way for work to begin on the memorial, the progress of which had been stymied for some time. Working with a committee of Kirkwallers, the families of the lost and survivors, and members of the Chantry, the Chantry Relations project and the Inquisition has aided with the design and construction of the memorial gardens. The gardens were designed as a place of reflection and to commemorate all those who lost their lives in the Chantry explosion of the thirty-seventh year of the Dragon Age, and its aftermath. However... as a place of peace for all those who have lost people and who seek succour, all are welcome.
It would be remiss to speak of the memorial gardens without acknowledging, in particular, the work of Siuona and Nahariel of Clan Dahlasanor. For all that feeling was much divided on it, the current growth and fertility of the gardens would have been impossible without the efforts and Sina and those who aided her in raising the forest. It was their shared vision of a peaceful place for the coming together of people in remembrance that allowed Andraste's Grove to come into being, and Narahiel's work that gave us the statue that has become an icon for so many. Though the fire destroyed much, all that survived it - the trees, the flowers, the ground of that grove as well as the statue of Andraste - are sacred. It has become a place of peace, and of pilgrimage. Knowing all the injuries that the Chantry has inflicted in the past, it seems... it seems all the more fitting that a place of healing and reconciliation be the result of Dalish idealism.
( Her own feelings on the Dalish are not warm, or perhaps much better than frosty, but her sentiment is genuine.
There follows a bit of a pause. )
I hope that... even with all the adversity that faces us now, new challenges arising alongside the old, that when it comes to protecting this world and standing against Corypheus, we can do so together. That... that animosity might be saved for those who stand as a threat to us all, and that breaches between us, allies even when it be... through circumstance rather than choice, might be settled peacefully whenever possible.
Easy words to say, I know, and I cannot claim that I have stood by that ideal anywhere near so well as I ought in times past. I wish to do better, on that count. If you should wish to find me, I am most often in the Chantry Relations office. Doubtless there is much to discuss, in light of recent developments and proposals.
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[Very serious.]
The monstrosity. The aberration. The excrescent blight upon the otherwise well-manicured if somewhat bland but no doubt deeply meaningful garden. Like a pustule it stands upon the lawn. An offense to design. A constant torment of uneven pattering noise. An affliction to those who might make use of the space.
[Does she know what he means yet? No? In deference to the Knight Enchanter's Marcher heritage, Val decides it is best to be explicit.]
The fountain, madame.
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She's not entirely sure how seriously to take this, but given that he is Orlesian, she assumes that when it comes to fountains it must be very serious indeed. )
I was not aware that they were such a source of distress. There have been those who have reported the sound of the "uneven pattering" to be very soothing.
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Yes. If the fountain were well-constructed, that might be the case. Alas, it is not well constructed. The tiers are positioned wrongly. I have measured.
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[Impatiently--]
But the measurements. If each tier were to be re-positioned just slightly.
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We can all of us agree that architecture is an expression and application of geometrical order, yes? Yet it is not one governed strictly by mathematics, as one might expect. Indeed there is no single accepted formulation of how order is achieved in architecture. There are many scholarly treatises written on the understanding of natural inanimate and biological structures, but the systemic patterns erected in our own more human construction had, until Bondeaulx's work, long gone unobserved.
Bondeaulx formalized his understanding of that patterning in his three laws, and in the third, set down a specific scaling factor that might be used to determine minimum acceptable space ratios, which was then applied by Madame Regné to better understand the most soothing space ratios in the tiers of a fountain. After heavy research and a series of trials, Madame Regné concluded that there is a certain harmonious balance to Bondeaulx's scaling factor. It is as pleasing to the eye as it is to the soul.
That is to say that, a fountain, balanced thusly, will produce sounds that are, on record, noted as being more pleasurable and more soothing, than a fountain balanced improperly.
i deeply admire your ability to just Do This at the drop of a hat and/or fountain
Did Bondeaulx, [carefully said,] concern himself only with the similarities between all the disparate sorts of architecture out there? Because it would seem some of this would come down to matters of a nation's taste.
Or was the thesis more profound--that all secondary creation eventually converges on the Maker's laws, no matter how we might come to it as individuals?
ty but don't drop the fountains there's a whole different essay for that
Now of course, as in nature, there are better versions. Better uses. That is how we come to some of the truly astonishing architectural feats of Orlais.
ok i will avoid lonely islanding them
Truly? I've even more reason to regret I'll never see them, knowing they've such principles woven into them. You'll need to tell me the best of it.
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Why, you might travel to Orlais to see it all for yourself! The University alone boasts such beauty that it can scarcely be described.
[Danger schmanger, fires schmires, once you get to Val Royeaux and the comforting embrace of the Mother School, it's all good.]
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( Please, Maker, not the giant fountain. )
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[If the dream involves light demolition, as Val's dreams often do.]
I would, of course, be happy to volunteer my time in this effort. My belief in the importance of this modification is strong enough that I would truly volunteer. That is, without any expectation for compensation whatsoever.