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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jfdlsjfd" data-source="post: 9576586" data-attributes="member: 42856">This is a sound decision, as it will ensure maximum paradox.First paradox, know Dalris is wildly beautiful. This isn't the description we were given in the first book, despite Carr being interested.We havent reached section 1 yet, and already we are mystified. Thayne and Dalris said that they had been looking for us for 15 years. We're 16 years old. Why didn't keep track of us during the one full year between our birth and the disappearance of Landor? Trying to locate his pregnant wife (or wife-with-newborn baby) that he might have kept in an undisclosed location just at the moment of his death is one thing, but I doubt he kept them in secrecy for a full year. They could just have asked Landor "how's the wife, budddy?" and spare them their time consuming, silent quest for Carr.There is a simpler explanation. We started the Sceptre of Power at age 16.We're told that:If we are 22 years old right now, it's because we ENDED the Sceptre of Power at age 17. There is no telling how long it took to be teleported back by the Crypt Thing to the room, now how long we took to leave the academy (possibly, or not, recovering Dalris along the way, whom we know barely at all, from the room). Remember that in this world, it takes Carr a whole day to read nine words. It is not out of place to think it took him six month to wait for the alarm to goes back to normal and slip off from the Teacher's Quarter. And possibly clear the Academy of all danger, as it ended saying that we still have to clear the dungeon, though not exactly in these terms.A log house that has been neglected for 15-55 years, depending on how soon he left the groove to build his College Arcane.Also, he recruited us as a tribal despite an odd chance of us mastering absolutely no spell at the end of book 1. The job's requirement are quite lax. They don't mention the pay, but you get a free hut, and presumably free stew.The College Arcane was canonically founded in 784 C.E (Canberra's Era, named after Perth's wife, who was an elf and who build a calendar based on her birth date, lending credence to Dalris' pre-teenage claim of being an elf princess).We enter our study session in Spring 822 C.E. That is evidenced by the book (who cannot be lying ot us).Since we're 16 at this point, we're born in 806 C.E.At this point, Landor was at least 66 (based on his need to being served by Rufyl for 40 years) -- so he's born in 740 C.E. but possibly earlier as there is not yet an upper limit for Landor's age.There is a strong chance taking 5 (so far) + many more years is still less than the 40+ years it took Landor.Also, while studying spellbook should tremendously speed up the acquisition of knowledge, those are coded spellbook. Being WIS 3, there is a strong chance that Landor left his spellbooks for his son, in a coded manner, but forgot to mention where he had stored the code. So somewhere, in a dilapidated crypt accessible only through the service of another Crypt Spawn, there is a scroll waiting for Landor's heir. Forever. Landor added the instruction on how to recover the code in the last page of his spellbooks, unfortunately in a coded form.The interim years will be spend trying to break the cypher.</blockquote>

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