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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pacdidj" data-source="post: 5174389" data-attributes="member: 86793">"Yaka. Not spell. More like a... what you say? Prayer? Or evoc... evocation? Need ask for ancestors blessing to open mulka. Always sealed by them power."Though Jezebel gleans little from her examination of the tree and the hollow, Ferris' proves more fruitful.[sblock=Ferris]The tree itself is a bit of a paradox. You can tell by the degree of weathering and smoothing of the wood that it has been here for a LONG time. Long enough that it should have rotted away ages ago, yet it remains intact. No tools were used to construct the hollow where its taproot should have been, of that you are certain.Making a thorough search of the area reveals little. Nothing was left behind in or around the cavity, and the only footprints in the area besides your own clearly belong to the human tribesmen. You do notice however that the area seems to be strangely devoid of wildlife (a remarkable thing in and of itself on Kythira), and that the salt grass growing on the beach nearest the tree has begun to wither and die, though it seems to be fine elsewhere along the shore.[/sblock]Alnar meanwhile listens to the resonances of the arcane power that flows through his veins.[sblock=Alnar]You do detect a faint trace of arcane energy near the tree. You can tell there was in fact a spell cast here recently, however it doesn't seem that the spell would have been powerful enough to overcome the ward placed on the tree hollow. The hollow seems to be warded by a ritual similar to, yet slightly more powerful than the Arcane Lock ritual that your master Wales demonstrated to you as an apprentice. Like the Arcane Lock ritual it is keyed by a password and gesture that Matjala just performed to open it. The ritual's power source is unfamiliar though, certainly not the arcane energy that flows through your veins.[/sblock]"Now, yes. Great Marna angry with us for losing tjurunga. Before, no. Ancestors not cruel, eh? Not take away our connection to land for no reason. This never happen before. My people protect tjurunga from beginning. Never been gone missing before this," responding to Jezebels query the Djaapana leader seems, if possible, slightly more crestfallen.[sblock=Jezebel]You recognize in Matjala a kindred spirit. His words, though few, convey a depth of devotion to the powers he serves not unlike your own.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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