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<blockquote data-quote="Orichalcum" data-source="post: 1144482" data-attributes="member: 3722"><p><strong>Brigitta's Introduction</strong></p><p></p><p>The woman on the right of Merin hesitantly stands next and speaks in a soft voice with a distinctly rustic accent to her Latin. She is a slightly plump woman in, you would guess, her early 30s, dressed in a bright blue dress with diagonal yellow stripes across the skirt and a sturdy red cotton bodice. The bottom of the dress is slightly frayed and bears what appear to be the signs of small teeth marks. Her brown hair is tightly braided and then wrapped in a bun, with a blue silk ribbon serving as headband. </p><p></p><p></p><p> “Salvete, sodales! I am Brigitta, filia Yolande of House Criamon, and I’m very honored to meet all of you. I served my apprenticeship at the Cave of Twisting Shadows, and I’ll be glad to be getting back to the mountains again with this new covenant. I was born in the Alps and have lived here all my life, and the air down here by the lake just seems too thick and cloying, don’t you think?</p><p></p><p></p><p> I have much to offer to the covenant. The first thing we need to do is establish a good location where our grogs can work the land to feed us all and make money to start paying back Lemannus. Besides, we need to have all our laboratories and buildings established by winter, because even the Mercere probably won’t be able to easily travel back to here between November and March. One of my specialities is the manipulation and change of Animal and Herbam, and if I have the appropriate resources, we can make our little valley the most fertile and prosperous Covenant in the Alps. I’d like to spend a lot of my initial time working on rituals to greatly magnify the production of our herds and fields. Yes, I know, it’s a little more mundane than the normal esoteric matters we Criamon normally study, but it’s all in pursuit of the greater good. Besides, I really don’t want to be in debt to Lemannus any longer than we have to.</p><p></p><p></p><p> I also want to tell you all about some of my exciting personal projects. Really, my focus is the nature of time, and temporal magic – everyone knows that we can’t make spells that turn back time, but we can slow it, and perhaps we can learn how to reverse time by first learning how to speed it up. I hope this makes sense to you. So I’ve been analyzing the process of fermentation; oh, that reminds me, please don’t eat any of the wheels of cheese I make without consulting me first – many of them contain vis, and it’s far too valuable. Oh, and before I forget, on the same note, if my goat Sapientia comes wandering near your laboratories, please make sure to put your own stores of vis on the upper shelves – I’m afraid she’s developed quite a taste for it. Of course, this has also given her all sorts of interesting talents. </p><p></p><p></p><p> Well, I’m really looking forward to working with all of you, and establishing this covenant together. If anyone has any questions about mountain life or the day-to-day practicalities, please don’t hesitate to ask – I’m not one of those reclusive eternally silent kind of Criamon magi. I suppose that’s all for now, although of course after we’ve all introduced ourselves I have lots of ideas about what kinds of vis we should get.”</p><p></p><p> </p><p>Cheeks blushing apple-red in her nervousness, Brigitta sits down, nearly missing the chair.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orichalcum, post: 1144482, member: 3722"] [b]Brigitta's Introduction[/b] The woman on the right of Merin hesitantly stands next and speaks in a soft voice with a distinctly rustic accent to her Latin. She is a slightly plump woman in, you would guess, her early 30s, dressed in a bright blue dress with diagonal yellow stripes across the skirt and a sturdy red cotton bodice. The bottom of the dress is slightly frayed and bears what appear to be the signs of small teeth marks. Her brown hair is tightly braided and then wrapped in a bun, with a blue silk ribbon serving as headband. “Salvete, sodales! I am Brigitta, filia Yolande of House Criamon, and I’m very honored to meet all of you. I served my apprenticeship at the Cave of Twisting Shadows, and I’ll be glad to be getting back to the mountains again with this new covenant. I was born in the Alps and have lived here all my life, and the air down here by the lake just seems too thick and cloying, don’t you think? I have much to offer to the covenant. The first thing we need to do is establish a good location where our grogs can work the land to feed us all and make money to start paying back Lemannus. Besides, we need to have all our laboratories and buildings established by winter, because even the Mercere probably won’t be able to easily travel back to here between November and March. One of my specialities is the manipulation and change of Animal and Herbam, and if I have the appropriate resources, we can make our little valley the most fertile and prosperous Covenant in the Alps. I’d like to spend a lot of my initial time working on rituals to greatly magnify the production of our herds and fields. Yes, I know, it’s a little more mundane than the normal esoteric matters we Criamon normally study, but it’s all in pursuit of the greater good. Besides, I really don’t want to be in debt to Lemannus any longer than we have to. I also want to tell you all about some of my exciting personal projects. Really, my focus is the nature of time, and temporal magic – everyone knows that we can’t make spells that turn back time, but we can slow it, and perhaps we can learn how to reverse time by first learning how to speed it up. I hope this makes sense to you. So I’ve been analyzing the process of fermentation; oh, that reminds me, please don’t eat any of the wheels of cheese I make without consulting me first – many of them contain vis, and it’s far too valuable. Oh, and before I forget, on the same note, if my goat Sapientia comes wandering near your laboratories, please make sure to put your own stores of vis on the upper shelves – I’m afraid she’s developed quite a taste for it. Of course, this has also given her all sorts of interesting talents. Well, I’m really looking forward to working with all of you, and establishing this covenant together. If anyone has any questions about mountain life or the day-to-day practicalities, please don’t hesitate to ask – I’m not one of those reclusive eternally silent kind of Criamon magi. I suppose that’s all for now, although of course after we’ve all introduced ourselves I have lots of ideas about what kinds of vis we should get.” Cheeks blushing apple-red in her nervousness, Brigitta sits down, nearly missing the chair. [/QUOTE]
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