February Event and Intro Log
Orientation Week/Magic Mayhem
The campus of Diatu Magicademy stretches out before you, confused and chaotic and surging with energy. Where are you headed? To your dorm or suite, to get settled? Maybe you need some food now? Wherever you head off to as your first stop, you have to deal with the snow. Helpful or proud students are passing out various magical remedies to get you where you need to be -- umbrellas with a nasty tendency to dump snow directly onto other people nearby, an iron tube that projects fire but appears to have no off switch, snowshoes that keep you slightly too high off the snow and thus provide no friction for stopping...
Familiar Follies
Familiars do not harass or harm each other as a rule -- but that doesn't mean they have no pecking order, and the week of Orientation finds them all jockeying for status and position as suits them. This can take the form of pranks, displays, competitions, or simple physical assertiveness towards each other. The goal is simply to be seen as superior by the student body. New wizards especially may find themselves surprised at this behavior of their familiars...
Research On the Sundered
With the arrival of the Sundered come those wizards engaged in research on their presence here, now set to investigate what brought them here and how to get them home. All Sundered students are asked to meet with representatives of the research team, to introduce themselves and relate what they will of their homes. In addition, the team requests samples of blood, hair, and skin -- carefully magically collected, and the researchers will sign in the presence of the Sundered a Glyphed contract that forbids them from using the samples for a purpose they know will be harmful. (They quite understand your reasons to be suspicious of this collection! And they will not compel anyone who refuses even given these conditions.)
Furthermore, they request to perform a few spells on you for testing purposes. It is, quite regrettably, possible that if you consent to this testing, you will come away with a temporary side effect -- a slight change of hair color, traveling two steps for every one you take, one hand moving about a second behind the arm it should be attached to, or being ridden by a penguin. No need to worry, these changes won't last more than a day!
Wonders Await
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diatu2019-02-06 03:27 pm
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You really didn't have to rush for me. But yes, all right. We can head for the courtyard first if you want a central point to start from, then go from there.
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[He says through his heavy breathing. On the bright side, the chill in the air feels moderately pleasant after that.]
Yes, that sounds perfect. I intend to write or draw as much as I can throughout the journey, so I shall let you take the lead from here on.
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Have you been on one before? A journey or adventure?
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Indeed I have. Though it compares little to the adventures of the Warrior of Light of our realm, I have gained some experience in the field myself.
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Warrior of Light? Who is that?
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That is the name given to the hero of our realm. We are home to many adventurers who risk life and limb for the good of all on Hydaelyn, but this one in particular has prevented us from calamity time and time again.
Not so long ago, there were warriors like that. Our realm stood on the brink of destruction, but they sacrificed themselves to save it and all within. Despite this great tragedy, none since have been able to recall their faces— merely figures enveloped in light. To that end, there is one whose deeds rival that of their predecessors and have since been bestowed with the same title in their honor.
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So it's a title granted to- I understand.
[Deeds make the hero, not birth. That's probably how it should be.]
We have a similar tale in Erdrea, of the Luminary of Legend, Erdwin. He existed centuries ago, and banished the darkness from the world alongside his companions.
[He relaxes somewhat, managing a brief smile] I wondered if he existed in your realm as well, but if you can't remember them.. Did you say there's a current incarnation?
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While there is none in history by that name that I know, our records are hardly proof of all that has ever happened. Sometimes, it manifests itself in faerie tales— once perceived as children's stories, some of these have had at least some basis on actual events.
If not our realm, however, it is possible that there is some sort of link between ours. By now, I would not be as surprised by such a revelation.
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Well, they say that at the end of his life, Erdwin ascended the heavens and became a star, where he watches over Erdrea to this day.
[His eyes scan the sky for it now, although it's much too bright and clouded over to see anything]
Erdwin's Lantern is a bright red star that never moves. I know you said Yggdrasil doesn't exist in your realm, but is there anything like Erdwin's Lantern?
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While I have some knowledge of the skies, I am no Astrologian. [He says this with a smile that indicates a jest, though he realizes the term would be lost on his friend.] However, there was once something similar.
It was one of our realm's two moons, which one day turned red and began to grow larger, threatening to plummet into the land. It was called Dalamud, and as it turns out, there was more to it than met the eye. It was also the cause of the calamity which claimed the lives of the Warriors of Light.
Similar, and yet much unlike your own.
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All right then, what is the source of life in your realm, if you don't have a World Tree?
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Is there a holy site where it flows from? Wherever that would be, would be the most like Yggdrasil.
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!!
It is then that he recalls the time his friend was lost, adrift in the Lifestream. He and his comrades had petitioned the elder Seedseer for help, and she in turn asked the elementals of the forest for their aid. The place where this was carried out was—]
The Guardian Tree! [His eyes widen, not expecting to find another link so similar. While a landmark of great import to Gridania, he hadn't likened it to something so crucial to the realm itself. Still... It does indeed have a strong connection.] I do not believe it to be the source itself, but it is perhaps a tributary.
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[His fingers fly over his heart just as an intense wave of relief floods through his entire body. He nearly feels unsteady with it]
That's.. A new leaf blooms on Yggdrasil's branches with every life that enters the world, then falls when it dies. I can't tell you how much it means that She might exist in some form in your realm. Perhaps they are connected, after all.
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Still, the expression on Eleven's face now seems to warrant that something has happened to the Tree. Alphinaud, too, knows well the weight of an entire realm in the balance.]
I can but provide the information that I have at my disposal. However, we are never without hope. Sometimes the answers we seek lie off the trodden path.
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Never without hope.
He has to believe that, although he's just beginning to learn how painful it is- how terribly fragile.]
Thank you. [He catches sight of Alphinaud's map and flusters] I'm sorry, I've been distracting you.
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You were telling me about your journey?