crystal;

[arkitect]

FORM: crystal
SENDER: Emet-Selch
RECIPIENT: Everybody in Riftwatch
NOTES: none atm!

Well, a bit late is better than never, as they say.

[perhaps 'late' isn't entirely accurate, given that the delay was intentional on his part, but. details! sometimes you show up and things get busy, and that certainly isn't his fault.]

If we haven't met previously, I am Emet-Selch-- and as I suppose my presence here makes any titles not currently applicable, we may leave it at that for now.

But for those of you not currently occupied with more... pressing matters, I have a curiosity or two of my own I should like to satisfy, wherever the time may be found for them. Further study of this world's magicks, for one, particularly if you've much experience in the field of creation; reading may be helpful enough, but I find there to be no true substitution for first-hand demonstration. If you happen to have the talent and the inclination to indulge a relatively new arrival's questions, then do let me know.

On a separate and more mundane subject, however, if you're familiar with the stars and celestial bodies of Thedas: I have some interest in them as well, whether the mythology and constellations you know, or more practical applications such as navigation. My interests do lean more toward the former, but there's nothing wrong with a more well-rounded study.

Comments

[illithidnapped]

Look at you, branching out in the world. I should be jealous, I think, knowing that you’re going to start rubbing elbows with someone— or perhaps many someones— other than myself.

[It's like reaching for swill when you could keep to wine, after all.]

I’m not of course.

But I should be.

[arkitect]

If you had hoped to be a sole source of contact, I regret to inform you that you were always bound to be quickly disappointed. How fortunate that jealousy won't trouble you, then.

[illithidnapped]

You’re right of course. And I’ve only myself to blame for this predicament:

I thought you had taste.

Lesson learned.

[He clicks his tongue, as though it's some great pity— and then moves on.]

Anyway, I know a little about the stars here, in the event that desperation takes you.

Consider me a purchasable resource.

[arkitect]

Could anyone claim to maintain good taste by only ever experiencing one thing? Surely you couldn't be concerned about measuring up in comparison...

[just an idle comment, one he drops and then brushes past easily enough.]

But I suppose that isn't terribly surprising, given the hours that you seem to keep. [nor is putting a price to it, really.] I just may be willing to take that into consideration.

[muckspout]

So what you're saying is...you like to look at the stars?

[A long pause.]

And you have questions? About stars? or?

[arkitect]

Something very much like that, yes. I am less familiar with these skies.

[muckspout]

What's to know about them? [As if to answer his own question.] They're pretty.

[arkitect]

Surely you aren't completely unfamiliar with the concepts of constellations? The use of particular stars for navigation?

[notathreat]

I'm not an astronomer or anything but I've been trying to chart some of 'em. Wysteria lent me a telescope.

[arkitect]

If you're of a mind to share, then I would be quite interested in seeing them.

[notathreat]

Sure, if you want. I'm on the top of the mage tower during clear nights.

Any funny business and you get thrown off, though. Fair warning.

[arkitect]

Is that so? [light amusement, there.] Well, I will endeavor to keep my humor in check.

[sparklequeen]

I'm Glimmer!

I'm not really like an astronomer or anything like that, but I've been looking at the stars when I have a chance. We didn't have them back home.

[arkitect]

-you didn't have them at all? [a bit incredulous.] Or you simply could not see them, from where your home was?

[sparklequeen]

It's kind of a long story, but my home, Etheria, was kind of shoved into this place called Despondos to keep it safe? So we couldn't see the rest of the universe. No stars, nothing except the moons.

[arkitect]

And here I was half concerned you were going to tell me your universe itself somehow lacked them, but I suppose dimensional containment would have its side effects... Doing so to an entire world is fairly impressive, however.

[kantikoy]

I know something of navigation via the stars here in Thedas, but I know more about creation magic, though it's often called 'spirit' these days. Adrasteia, Grey Warden and Morale Officer, at your service.

[arkitect]

Well, as I have more options for the former than the latter, I do believe I might have some questions for you. If you've the time to set aside from your duties as an officer, of course.

[kantikoy]

Of course. When and where would be good for you? I do have an office.

[ipseite]

It is rare enough that I find myself unoccupied, but I have some experience in the close study of Thedosian magic in order to better understand the new context for my own. I am more than happy to direct you to the reference materials I have found most useful, over the course of my years here.

[arkitect]

Seeing as that is the precise reason for my own study-- I do believe anything you might provide should prove useful enough.

[ipseite]

I ought to be able to build a reasonable beginning for a reading list out of the remaining notes I have kept. For the most part, they're tomes you might locate in Riftwatch's library with relative ease.

[armd]

(-- okay, she's curious. she'll bite.)

What are your titles? Gimme your full introduction.

[arkitect]

I don't know that either of us would truly care to sit through every one of them, most really are long since defunct.

But... technically speaking, I have already given one, at least; 'Emet-Selch' is a title and name both.

[armd]

Why do you have them, if nobody can be bothered to sit and listen to them? (genuine question... seems stupid to her.)

And what does Emet-Selch mean?