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| Action Id: 3328 | Crisis: | Participants: Bhandn | |
| Status: Resolved | Submitted: April 10, 2019, 12:37 a.m. | Public: True | GM: Puffin |
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Action Points: 75 |
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Action by Bhandn
With the discovery that Archscholar Py has done at least one translation of a work dating from the Founding, Bhandn will be on the lookout for a copy of "She First Owned Magic: On Copper and the Naming of the Metallics" in its original language, if it still exists (in Arx in general, not just the Great Archive). He will do so under the guise of looking for "old history". As the translation itself has gone missing, he intends to seek out other works dating from the same period and/or subject matter (or translations done by the Archscholar, but he won't specifically be asking for those). This is to note them in case there is a problem: one missing source and/or its translation might be coincidence, but more than one makes for a pattern.
As he got a direct warning from Rinel about how he needs to be careful with matters pertaining to Archscholar Py's work, he will try to do so alone. Should a copy of "She First Owned Magic..." still exist in its original language, he'll be interested in determining the language in which it is written, by looking for notes on other sources and translations.
Result
Bhandn searches in vain for an original-language copy of the book called "She First Owned Magic - Copper and the Naming of the Metallics." Interestingly though, he comes across other fascinating information. First, a lengthy bit of information on runic inscriptions and how they are most definitely -not- a language, written by Aislin Ashford and Vincere Igniseri. Then, a longer set of work, doing exactly what he hoped to do, but with a different language entirely... Draconic. These notes were also written by Lady Aislin Ashford in conjunction with Calarian Wyrmguard this time. He doesn't find all their notes but the work they did roughly parallels what he himself hopes to do.
Fascinatingly then, he starts to look into Lady Aislin's work, and it seems she was far beyond a normal explorer but also quite the scholar. And in following that path, he starts to find large gaps in her work - entire sections missing. Volumes with only the introductory paragraph and a conclusion, and nothing in between but pages torn from books. Whatever she was researching has been stripped rather thoroughly, with only a few snippets remaining. In a methodical manner which far outstrips mere happenstance.
Troubling, indeed.