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<blockquote data-quote="mmeubiquitous" data-source="post: 1155287" data-attributes="member: 14523"><p>A young woman in simple blue robes stands up. She is short, with long plain brown hair combed back carefully into a braid. Blue tattoos swirl over her face, which close examination shows to be an intricately detailed star chart. Although she is obviously shy, and her hands tremble slightly, her voice, though soft, is clear and the air hums in resonance. While you may instinctually lean forward, you hear every word.</p><p></p><p>“Salvete sodalis. I am Celeste, filia Maurice, daughter of the House of Criamon. It is my great honor and pleasure to make your acquaintance, and to be part of such an auspicious undertaking as this. I am a native of Savoy, but was apprenticed very young at the Cave of Twisting Shadows.</p><p>“I hope that my magical interests may be both of interest to you and of use to the covenant. I am studying the music of the spheres. I believe that we may learn much about the metaphysical properties of magic by studying how it harmonizes with reality: the movement of the stars, the passage of time, the change of the seasons and the like. I believe it is by altering those harmonies that we are able to affect the physical world through our gift. My work, as it is, has two goals, which I hope to accomplish as the culmination of my studies. First I wish to write a definitive text on the subject, which I believe will be valuable to the study of magic in general. For this I would be quite interested in the offer to copy texts from our parent covenant. While their collection is sure to be extensive, I think it could be well supplemented with some rarer texts on the more esoteric subjects. Thus I would also be interested in making an agreement with the Cave of Twisting Shadows for the opportunity to copy some of their texts as well. I would be happy to make two copies of any text I copy from them, one for our library, of course, and also one for our parent covenant.</p><p></p><p>“Second, I am planning the construction of an accurate representation of the heavens and their movement, an instrument which would doubtless have many academic uses, both magical and vulgar. For this project I would request a space big enough to house he instrument, which I expect will be quite large. I expect that the long-term usefulness of this instrument, both for our own covenant as well as for those from the outside who would wish to utilize it…for a small fee, of course,” she smiles, “will more than compensate for the investment of space and resources now. Also, anyone who would be willing to lend their mechanical abilities would be greatly appreciated.</p><p></p><p>“Besides my academic work, there are two more practical things that I may offer the covenant. First, I am able to discern strong auras and divine vis sources. I would be happy to scout out the area of our new covenant in order to draw up a map of the magical terrain. I would also be willing to help arrange the buildings of our covenant in order to maximize the flow of energy in the valley.”</p><p></p><p>“Thank you all for this marvelous opportunity. May fortune smile on our endeavors.”</p><p></p><p>As she takes her seat she sighs and smiles, obviously relieved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mmeubiquitous, post: 1155287, member: 14523"] A young woman in simple blue robes stands up. She is short, with long plain brown hair combed back carefully into a braid. Blue tattoos swirl over her face, which close examination shows to be an intricately detailed star chart. Although she is obviously shy, and her hands tremble slightly, her voice, though soft, is clear and the air hums in resonance. While you may instinctually lean forward, you hear every word. “Salvete sodalis. I am Celeste, filia Maurice, daughter of the House of Criamon. It is my great honor and pleasure to make your acquaintance, and to be part of such an auspicious undertaking as this. I am a native of Savoy, but was apprenticed very young at the Cave of Twisting Shadows. “I hope that my magical interests may be both of interest to you and of use to the covenant. I am studying the music of the spheres. I believe that we may learn much about the metaphysical properties of magic by studying how it harmonizes with reality: the movement of the stars, the passage of time, the change of the seasons and the like. I believe it is by altering those harmonies that we are able to affect the physical world through our gift. My work, as it is, has two goals, which I hope to accomplish as the culmination of my studies. First I wish to write a definitive text on the subject, which I believe will be valuable to the study of magic in general. For this I would be quite interested in the offer to copy texts from our parent covenant. While their collection is sure to be extensive, I think it could be well supplemented with some rarer texts on the more esoteric subjects. Thus I would also be interested in making an agreement with the Cave of Twisting Shadows for the opportunity to copy some of their texts as well. I would be happy to make two copies of any text I copy from them, one for our library, of course, and also one for our parent covenant. “Second, I am planning the construction of an accurate representation of the heavens and their movement, an instrument which would doubtless have many academic uses, both magical and vulgar. For this project I would request a space big enough to house he instrument, which I expect will be quite large. I expect that the long-term usefulness of this instrument, both for our own covenant as well as for those from the outside who would wish to utilize it…for a small fee, of course,” she smiles, “will more than compensate for the investment of space and resources now. Also, anyone who would be willing to lend their mechanical abilities would be greatly appreciated. “Besides my academic work, there are two more practical things that I may offer the covenant. First, I am able to discern strong auras and divine vis sources. I would be happy to scout out the area of our new covenant in order to draw up a map of the magical terrain. I would also be willing to help arrange the buildings of our covenant in order to maximize the flow of energy in the valley.” “Thank you all for this marvelous opportunity. May fortune smile on our endeavors.” As she takes her seat she sighs and smiles, obviously relieved. [/QUOTE]
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