"If you can keep both of the factions in the caverns busy for half an hour or so, I believe I can repair the engine and the burner. The soarwood hull and mithral engine give me some margin -- I think this concept can be made to work with ordinary wood and metal, though it would leave much less capacity for cargo and passengers.
"I've been trying to sneak in repairs when neither side was being too observant. The Cardinal has some spells that have been of use there, but I've never had much time." Aerdene said.
Sitting on the ground, her legs in improvised braces, and wearing the robes of a Cardinal of the Orthodox Church, was a flame-haired Khorvar woman who you'd guess was in her 40s (i.e. she looks like an early 30s-ish human, except for the ears). Save for the robes, it would be easy to take her for a factor of a great merchant house; Doc has seen many women that look much like her among the 'young' and ambitious of his house.
"I did not study magic for its combat aplications." Cardinal Avaliah Sarhain said. "If not for tradition nearly as strong as law, I doubt I would have learned the prayer to create food and water, and then where would we be?"
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In the last years of the Cataclysm, Flamekeep was under seige, and the surrounding farms could not produce enough to feed the city. The Clerics of the Flame had been able to supplement their effort, and even aid it, but all but the most purely positive and negative divine magics began to fail, and the training centers for arcanists had been largely destroyed (leading to the current state where only healers, dread necromancers, and archivists exist as major casters). The rotes of the then-small Archivists order still functioned, though, and it was by their efforts on the margin that many of the people of Flamekeep avoided starvation in those last days. As a consequence, all members of the Archivists Order in the Church -- now much larger than it was then -- are taught the spells to create food and water as soon as they are capable of casting them.
The Keeper of the Flame whose sacrifice ended the Cataclysm was the last true Cleric on Eberron; visionaries in later years have usually had Healer's powers, though the few members of the Archivists order that have ascended to the Keeper's title have found their powers enhanced with the Keeper's mantle rather than replaced.
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