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Primidi, Floréal, décade 23, DCCLXXXIX

Arrested Development

by Chevalière banneresse Geneviève Frankling

L’agenda journalier de Geneviève
Primidi, Floréal, décade 23, DCCLXXXIX.


Pour réussir dans le monde il fallait avoir l'air fou et être sage.


We have finally arrived in Dur’Khuzun – and the Academy records certainly knew approximately where. They missed the following:



  1. The overcharging runesmith Rurik at the Stone & Steel Smithy;


  2. Dorra Emberflask of the Emberflask Tavern – she serves Emberflasks! – an extroverted darling extraordinaire; and


  3. That the very stonework itself is guilty of treason by association. This is noted by Jane Mossbrook, in my second real conversation with her. On an unrelated note, I once played cards with a trio of Ostenmanc Untarnished fellows at one of my usual haunts, just returned from Nova Aera. They spoke of an eccentric who prowled the streets as he pontificated about interdimensional space demons and grand financial conspiracies – seditious cobblestones sound right up his trade charter!


In fairness to Rurik, he may just drive a hard bargain. I doubt that the forthcoming negotiations will be short – just like home!
 
So Jane reincarnates and has done so for millennia. I finally have some clarity regarding her unusual statements – she carries with her memories of countless lives. And unfortunately, it’s the traumatic ones that have surfaced lately: her death during the Battle of the Crag, for instance. I cannot pretend to grasp how it would feel to be continuously reborn, nor can I imagine the immense burden it would entail. Even so, the Crag was decimated nearly two thousand years ago, and the turncoat mercenaries from Dur’Khuzun are long since dead. Any direct legacy of theirs is ash on the wind, and the social-historical context has changed considerably since. The past has shaped the present, yes, but it is not shackled to its vices. If it were, the world would have been physically dragged to the Hells aeons ago. I digress – Jane and I have some disagreements in this matter. She’s languishing in the dead air of the past, I draw my breath for the future!
 
As Pierre would say whenever marking the conclusion of an inconclusive polemic: in varietate concordia.

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