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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3361698" data-attributes="member: 3448">“Let me see the names,” said Alistair.  “Hmm.  The names vary a great deal.  I know all of them, but I’m not sure why the names are on the list.  Mommy Cupcakes, one of the stablemen in the palace… I’m not sure how the names were chosen, except that they are not political targets.  None of the people listed are of particular political importance-- the two of you are about the most highly placed people on the list,” he said, gesturing at Kit and Dame Brionna.  “And there are a few family members at the bottom of the list, but I wouldn’t say that they are particularly relevant to succession concerns.”“Close contacts of yours, your grace?”“Perhaps.”  Alistair noted but neglected to mention that none of his more casual sexual partners had made the list.  “All of the people are people I feel at least affection for, although some are people I haven’t had much contact with since childhood.”  He looked at the list more closely.  “Odd… there are two skipped lines.  Otherwise, the spacing between the names is very regular.  But I don’t see even remnants of old writing.”The mage cast a quick spell.  “How odd… There definitely were two additional names, but I can’t determine what they were.  My spell should have revealed that as well…” He frowned.  “I think I’ll put the scroll back in the chest, if I may.  Holding it makes me feel a draining sensation-- most unpleasant.”Kit spoke up.  “Perhaps the Farsensor could tell us more about it?”When the Eldar saw the marble and scroll his eyes widened, his usual placid expression replaced with a look of shock.  “I go away for a while to see how my men are doing, and you discover a Thorian artifact set.”“You recognize it?  Do you know what it does?”“Yes.  Are any of the people on this list dead?”Alistair scanned down it again and pointed to a name.  “One.  He was my old riding-master, and he followed my grandmother.”“Observe.”  The Eldar rolled the marble across the name.  As it rolled, the name disappeared-- not as if erased or scraped off, but as if it had never been there.  “Now, then.  What name was written there?”“Why, it was…” Alistair paused as he struggled to remember the name.  “My old riding-master… I think… I must have had a riding master?”Kit said, “But you were just talking about… somebody…”Dame Brionna looked at Alistair.  “Can you still ride well?”“I can ride some, certainly.  I would not say I’m particularly well-trained, but…”“So it’s not just the people, but what they taught you that is lost as well.”“Indeed,” said the Eldar.  “The artifact erases all traces of its victims from history, as if they had never lived.”  He thought for a moment.  “They have made more in-roads in the forces of evil than I thought if they were loaned this artifact set.”</blockquote>

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