It has been a while since I have touched this journal. Truthfully, sometimes I don't know where to start. My life before I came here was not exactly ordinary, but it has lately exceeded so many bounds of ordinariness that I am unsure of how to explain. I have almost gotten used to the giant panther following me everywhere, but the Harmonian high ( Read more... )

tectum_viridis posed today the question of how Lady Leknaat is able to tell the future. Her Rune is no more related to prediction than any other; and while time means nothing to a True Rune, they are not likely to overly concern themselves with predicting next year's crop of a food that humans find nourishing on a given stretch of land. Yet she is not a ( Read more... )

One thing that I have never seen mentioned in historical records, indeed rarely outside of mage culture, is what Runes are really like. It is well-known that they are living entities with their own will, even the common Runes with their lesser consciousness, but hardly anyone talks about what sort of entities they are ( Read more... )

Things are so different these days ( Read more... )

I wonder how many people who don't use magic never think about what Runes really are. I suppose I thought about them as little as anyone, despite my Harmonian education; a school of military strategy isn't a situation conducive to many people going about connected to the flow of all life, and I was never one to go out into the city much. But it's ( Read more... )

tectum_viridis asked me: which is worse, to order someone's death or to kill them with your own hands? I have never been able to answer that question. I am far from the one to ask. I don't know "more wrong", "lesser evil"-- I only know what is wrong, what should not be.

I really do think that temple cats are a lovely idea, but I know tectum_viridis is right; there's the problem of the birds, who likely wouldn't find it so lovely. When I started idly making plans as to how one might hypothetically transport 2744 felines home, he proposed a trip to Nay-Kobold. I don't usually like travelling, but that would be a fascinating ( Read more... )

I was telling tectum_viridis about a book I'd read wherein a large group of siblings all had magic, and used it to engage in sibling rivalries and tease one another-- like any siblings, I suppose, but with some rather enhanced and creative means ( Read more... )

I dared tectum_viridis to drink a glass of sand, in a cocktail glass with a straw and an umbrella and a little wedge of lemon, and he did it. Moreover, he was heard to opine, "Sand with lemon, that sounds quite nice actually."

There is no accounting for taste, I suppose...

I am told that the amount of magic in the Temple is more intense than usual; it has been this way almost since I arrived, so I hardly know what is considered normal around here. tectum_viridis approached me yesterday with confirmation of what I've already observed: that there are an overpowering amount of True Runes in the Temple, and that most likely it ( Read more... )