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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cerebral Paladin" data-source="post: 3644972" data-attributes="member: 3448">“Let me ask you a different question.  Did my grandmother have preparations for a full-scale invasion?  She must have had some plan for an attack.”“She wasn’t really herself for the last year, but before that, she called up whatever army was available, called up the mage order she was part of if necessary, and off she marched.  You could see it in the Battle of the Hag’s Teeth.  But no actual plans for a massive invasion.”  The old man thought for a moment and then continued more slowly.  “Well… that’s not completely true.  When you were a bit younger, when the Southlands fell, there was a danger the southern duchies would be invaded.  She started the process of making a number of additional field armies.  But then the skaven fell back, and the Noldar slavers started raiding the refugees.  So we never created any additional units, except the one that was almost wiped out under your, ahem, sainted father.”“How far into the preparations did she get?”“She stockpiled all of the weapons, armor, and equipment for four additional infantry field armies-- one heavy, two medium, and one light.  She also had us ready all of the supplies except for the horses for another cavalry field army.”“Are the supplies still available?”“Of course.  They have been in storage ever since, waiting for a decision to actually constitute the armies.”“We may have need of them…” said Alistair.  “On an unrelated subject, does the archive have records that are magically protected against alteration?”“Of course, your grace.  Our warded records are among the best protected records of any realm.”“Please search the warded records for any mention of my mother.”“Your mother, your grace?”  The Chief Archivist paused.  “I’m afraid I can’t remember her name or background.  You have my deepest regret for my faulty memory.  Could you give me some information with which to search?”“That’s the problem.  People’s memories of her have been erased.  Even I don’t remember her name or anything about her.”“How terrible… and the records of her?”“Also gone.  That’s why I’m hoping the warded records might have survived.”“Yes.   I’ll check immediately.”“Send me a message if you find anything.  Don’t copy out the information, and whatever you do don’t bring the records outside the wards, but send for me and I will come to you.”“Yes… that would be the best way.  I will send a message to your grace as soon as I can.”“While you are at it, also look into any references to Thorians.  We were told that this was done by a Thorian artifact, but we don’t know what that means.”“‘Thorian’ … that sounds familiar, somehow, but I cannot remember the precise context.  Perhaps the research will remind me as well.  I will send you a report as soon as possible on any mentions of ‘Thorians’ or their artifacts in the archive.”</blockquote>

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