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Message: <blockquote data-quote="orchid blossom" data-source="post: 6238908" data-attributes="member: 12815">"I started out interested in the history, but I have to admit I have become fascinated with the methods themselves. Finding, preserving, making sure that the disturbance we create in our searches don't cause irreparable harm. I enjoy the minute, detailed task of unearthing the treasures from the ground.And no, I have no particular area I want to focus on just now. A young archeologist just starting out must take the jobs she can. Egypt is always fascinating, its history is so rich and ancient. But I would also enjoy delving into the past of the Celtic and Nordic peoples. There's not as much work that way, though. The fascination and funding for now seems to lie in Northern Africa.And of course the world of yesterday relates to the world of today! We are, every one of us, created and informed by the generations that came before us.  We humans live with beliefs and prejudices passed down that we no longer even understand, they're just what is. For the longer-lived races, things that happened hundreds of years ago are personal memories. Part of personal experiences that even more directly inform who they are.And magic...  Like any other source of power it's threaded all through history. But it's the one kind of power that doesn't concentrate itself among the already powerful. It can be an equalizer, like when a poor child discovers sorcerous powers. Or it can move people even further above, like the resources I saw back at the castle.  And of course the rift between clerical and arcane magic has profoundly shifted the course of the entire Western world. Magic matters a great deal."</blockquote>

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