interlude: ellethia

[groundrules]

ELLETHIA

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Goodbye & farewell to Taravast, as the party heads into the mysterious, if sadly downtrodden Ellethia. Our latest log has gone up to cover 3-17 January, and you can make your individual plotting comments or ask questions here!

Comments

[notsansa]

I mean this girl was first the fool! Everyone here just got too excited over possibly dangerous flowers.

[valeas]

I NEED IT UDEK

witch gang poking at the greens and getting things done sounds about right to me. bonus points if we give them something extra spooky and horrifying to uncover. i just think that would be neat.

[reparo]

She'll make a list - apparently she's getting a book on local herbs! How likely is she to to make Snape proud with creative potion-making? Not at all.

[notsansa]

Tell her all about this Snape, Master! Mistress? My Lady?

[silverneedles]

hermione's got potions, wen qing can use potions (also give her advice on more potions)

[silverneedles]

Oh, it will be a wonderful(ly terrible) time! She'll probably mistake Sansa for her baby brother, and cry about leaving him, if Sansa wants to deal with that.

[enucleation]

here it is~ let me know if it doesn't work, I can write something else!
https://westwhere.dreamwidth.org/24334.html?thread=2060558#cmt2060558

[enucleation]

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https://westwhere.dreamwidth.org/24334.html?thread=2060558#cmt2060558

[enucleation]

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[somebadnews]

I love it. It's perfect, will hit this up soon. :>

[notsansa]

Oh that's going to be a horrible time for them both. I am 100% go for this.

I have been watching the show, actually, and I love Wen Qing so much more now (and Wen Ning!). I have temporarily stopped at episode 30 because that seems like a perfect spot to pretend the show ends while everything is as good as can get.

[lancifolium]

So we're lorehounding, so what.

What, if anything can be gleaned from copies of the pamphlets 90 Days Since Conscription: Where Are Your Sons?, Taravast Was Our Fathers’ Question, We Are the Answer, and Who Watches through Your Mirrors? If repairing magic has to be used to get them to be legible so be it.

Are there any other interesting bits of information about Ellethia and what happened to be gleaned by extensively poking around looking for books (and using a bubblehead charm to get at things underwater if it comes to it)?

If people head to the botanical gardens what's the situation like?

[silverneedles]

Episode 30 is a great place to stop and pretend everything is wonderful and nothing bad happens to any of them. They keep growing things in the Burial Mounds and are a large, happy family.

[groundrules]

Hello!

1. The pamphlets are mostly self-contained and require no real magical reconstruction. The water damage might make some parts slightly illegible, but wouldn't bar readers from overall gleaning the following:

90 Days Since Conscription: Where Are Your Sons? it is unclear what the purpose of the conscription was, but the poster drawing shows hesitant young men being forcibly removed by a lawman from the loving grasps of their weeping families, while a man toying with a fire ball watches on with a smile.

Taravast Was Our Father's Question: includes a few paragraphs on why Ellethia must pursue its own path to growth and thriving glory, rather than remain locked in this ongoing rivalry for magical exploration with Taravast. The essay argues that constantly benchmarking off Taravast will stunt Ellethia's true progress.

Who Watches through Your Mirrors? a community group questions whether the newly debuted mirrors of luck, counsel or protection that have become popular in Ellethia are not secretly being used by the government to spy on its citizens. The group argues that Ellethia has come to overrely on magic that only the elite understand, ensuring their wealth and prosperity.


2. Are there any other interesting bits of information about Ellethia and what happened

Bear with me — what happened...?


3. A visit to the botanical gardens will reveal hundreds of stone plats, some marked with names. The phrase Truth Bows Only to the Sun, also found on the plates of Ellethia-Hamsour, is engraved on some of the plates. Most stone pieces have been cut to the same size, but the discrepancy in length/width and the cracks in the engravings suggest a rushed job. There are no actual graves. The dates inscribed on the plates show the deceased passed at various ages: children, adults, elders. They all perished in the same year. The plates that mention a day show the same one.

[lancifolium]

What happened to Ellethia, or any other useful nuggets of importance tbh! She'd be trying to read anything she can find to read.

Also, anything/anywhere of note with that eye sigil that was originally spotted on the Stairs of Sighs?

Would sifting through any of the buildings yield up any of those mirrors the pamphlet mentioned?

[groundrules]

Nothing recorded on what happened to Ellethia — but Lily can find the books of the library are largely out of place, signalling either Ellethia had very poorly kept libraries, or she is not the first to peruse the reading selection since the citadel fell.

The sun-eye sigil can be found on some of the decrepit plates buried beneath the greenery of Ellethia-Hamsour, which announce the magical-technological institutes. Consider sharing this with the class!

There are many mirrors in the citadel. Several houses have smashed mirrors, though they typically also have crushed windows, damaged furniture, etcetera. Several of the houses show damage that indicates trampling. If any of the mirrors in Ellethia-Allayar were ever magical, either they or the sorcery that governed them has been removed.

[ambitiousblond]

SAME they would be such a great combination! I haven't top leveled yet, plan to later tonight hopefully! but if you have I will hit you up!

[lancifolium]

Awesome, thank you for all this!

And while we're digging around disorganized libraries: would there be any information about the lighthouse?

[groundrules]

Maps of Ellethia that precede the sundering show a great lighthouse — in Allayar.

Its remains can be found with deeps marks of likely mermaid clawing.

[lancifolium]

Delicious. Thank you again!

[chromiums]

you're darn right he's going in a boat with lorna!!!

[soloritur]

Yes, good! A romantic boat ride by candlelight~

[chromiums]

nice and romantic up until they a ) get sick or b ) the interloper comes along~

[soloritur]

He takes what he can get, as always. But he's also going to be too nice to the obviously undead friend who joins them, so... he kind of got in his own way in this case.

All the boats nearby: "Is that the aurora borealis??"

[chromiums]

every boat around them: wow they're SO good at keeping their candles lit, it's like watching fireworks!