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[moustre]

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[topslug]

Though Yako’d taken the first couple of sessions for the language of flowers, most of the ones here are beyond her ability to identify. It’s ... well, when she thinks about it, it’s sort of unsurprising. Professor Bell was more interested in Dewaint for what lay under it; someone must be interested in what actually grew to make it what it is.

But, she’s getting ahead of herself with her assumptions. Once she’s seated, she’ll briefly explain her interest in Dewaint forest, it’s seeming connection to the new arrivals through the dream, the Fae’s strange banquet and the Cwyld that lurks outside.

Ser MacAlpine was referred to her as someone who may have more information or insight on the place — or at least the area it was purported to be. She admits she doesn’t have a specific question in mind besides wanting to know what they can tell her about the place ... including, maybe, why it’s so difficult to find information on it?

[moustre]

Ser MacAlpine sits back, nodding. They were given some notice from both Miss Endya and Professor Bell, so they've been expecting her, and have been working to get some things together. They pull some scrolls out from the box situated next to their seat, unrolling one and spreading it out across the table between them. It's an enormous map - and holds some minor resemblance to the one that the archivists tend to at Undermael.

Now, Cohen is a smart young lad. But he's a professor, and that means he's an academic, and teaches like an academic on that level. Those theories can get awful confusing.

But, now, why is it so hard to find information? MacAlpine thinks one of two things: the first, that it was unwritten because of an event that someone in power could have wanted hidden, or second, that it could be so simple (and there's dryness in their tone, indicating that they don't think this is quite so simple) as their past historians simply assumed it would always be part of their lives, the same as the old language. The runes have fallen out of use, and thus out of everyone's minds and vocabulary. It's practically dead, outside of magic, which means that terms and locations and knowledge is lost to the old books written in those runes.

Perhaps even Dewaint.

[topslug]

Yako looks over the map that Ser MacAlpine has spread out, curiously -- by now, she's looked at the map in Undermael often, so she recognizes the general shape of it but also notes any significant differences.

When Ser MacAlpine shares their theories, she nods, because both seem pretty possible to her. After a moment of consideration, she asks if there's a possibility that the lack of information on Dewaint in general could be related to Serwyl da Uathmar? If he had wanted quite badly to take over Geardagas, tapping into the power of its heart seems like an obvious step to take, though she admits she hasn't looked into him too deeply.

[moustre]

Ser MacAlpine supposes Miss Yako may have something there, as da Uathmar sought to overtake Geardagas to such a degree that he would depose other rulers given the chance. Threats and all that. The High Queen of the Fae was a rather grand threat, making Dewaint and its node a prime target for such a thing. Many a battle was had across the country, but he never did manage to take the Fae Courts - especially not since it was home to many True Fae.

MacAlpine theorizes that there was at least one, if not numerous, sieges close to or actually upon Dewaint Forest, that it could have had an impact. Whether it was on the lost knowledge of Dewaint, the expansion of the Wilde, the source of Cwyld, the standstill of the war itself... they can't say for sure. There's so little knowledge confirmed and so many fanciful theories that they have more questions than answers without an expedition.

(And Yako knows, now, how well the last one went.)

[topslug]

Yako nods, listening intently. The idea of an expedition has come up more than once now, just in conversation with others -- it seems there's a lot of enthusiasm amongst the mirrorbound for it. But it seems like that sort of thing would certainly be a difficult undertaking, and she can only imagine the resources it would take...

But, she's here to learn what she can from Ser MacAlpine, she says finally, with a smile. Professor Bell had said he based his theories off information that Ser MacAlpine was the one to find in the first place ... and it sounds like their experience is much more first-hand than academic.

How is it that they know so much about the history of Geardagas? And how did they come by this map, and where does it come from? It seemed like the one in Undermael was quite old, but she can see this one isn't exactly the same. Miss Endya also mentioned that not all their findings made their way into books, and she admits she's curious about those -- and, if they don't mind telling her, why they chose to hold them back.

[moustre]

Now see, that's the objectively more interesting bit -- they came into possession of these materials through various means, the old goat'll say with a hushed voice (though more for impression than actual need for secrecy), from an old friend in the college itself, their own family keeping bits and pieces through oral tradition (all penned down, once Ser MacAlpine got their hands on it), as well as personal experiences.

The map itself's from their friend, who'd been in love with how the leylines laid upon the lines of the land, but had passed rather recently... T'was his last wish for them to have it, so they're quite fond of that piece, they are. Wouldn't be willing to part with it if she asked, but with a little time they ought be able to draw up a similar one for her reference if she'd like. And, since Yako's more out in the world than they are these days, perhaps she'll learn things that they haven't, and be able to add to her own copy. Ser MacAlpine'd like to see it then.

The history of Geardagas is a bit of this and that, from stories passed through families and the like, though Witches have always had a better understanding of such things thanks to their handy education there's just as much to be found from the elderly like themselves, they'd think, given some time and a bit of tea.

As for the last, why they chose to hold some things back... Keep them unpublished, tucked into this old belt of theirs, is because they're more like tidbits than publishable pieces. Building blocks to a greater building. Oh, they'll certainly hand them off to someone once death's lantern is at their window, let them take a crack at it, but til then they'll remain safe as can be in this house of theirs.

That said, the tidbits are somewhat interesting to those with an open mind -- that leylines seemed to draw power from the world in the same breath it exhales it, so a land that's dead of magic won't have a leyline until something magic begins to manifest through other means; similarly, lands with those tainted nodes need sufficient "clean" magic to run through the veins and push the bad stuff out, but it just isn't possible at the moment. Not with everyone so scattered as they are, it's not.