[HQ Ignorance] Re : Scene 68: The Abiding Book, Nochet and The Dead God

[Lev Lafayette]

>From Moment Yearning's investigation it does indeed seem that the book
creates pages as required, rather than having a number of blank pages.
Icthya speculates whether the book contains some of the regenerative
properties of plants. Moment Yearning explains whilst the original
Abibiding book was leather and vellum, the new pages seem to be made of
another material altogether, and one which is very difficult to discern
and yet, there is some nagging familiarity about it.

Even with Moment Yearning's assistance, it is difficult to bring the
Green Age and the Malkioni mythologies together. For the Malkioni, stone
preceded plant life, which preceded the creation of the Elder Races.
>From the Elven perspective, during the Green Age all life was under the
banner of the Aldrya, in unison with her fertile consciousness. For the
Malkioni this represents a period without ego or independence of
lifeforms.


On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 08:20 -0300, Sam Elliot wrote:
> Icthya has been paying very little attention to the matter of the
> book. At one point she overheard that it was writing their story even
> now, but that seemed of little importance: if she were to return to
> her forest they would likely be singing of her journey too.
> 
> The one thing which she does wonder, however, is how many unwritten
> pages there are. She mentions this idly to a Moment Yearning. Her
> spirit friend, steeped in a timeless wisdom, points out to her that if
> this book has any knowledge of the future, even if only an idea of how
> many pages are yet to be written, then it must have a connection to
> the web of things outside of the middl world. That is, it must be
> connected to Arachne Solara´s doings and thereby to the Green Age when
> all that comes to pass happened already.
> 
> On the other hand (here, A Moment Yearning has his mistress somewhat
> baffled: centaurs, especially those from the West, are great ones for
> the study of Logic, but Icthya proceeds by a totally different form of
> reasoning and sometimes finds it hard to keep up with him), if the
> book doesn't have the full complement of pages yet then new pages must
> be coming from somewhere as the story is written. If there is such a
> device then it may well be one of the soulless ones' infernal
> sorcerous machinations. On the other hand, it would be quite possible
> that the book is still alive and capable of some vegeative
> regeneration. Icthya can think immediately of a dozen plants which
> would have this property if properly bound into some device. The
> elfbow she carries with her would be something similar of course.
> 
> Icthya's curiosity is slightly stimulated, but after a few days A
> Moment Yearning starts to pester her to see the artefact. Eventually,
> she cedes and asks the bizarre, ancient human, if she might examine
> the artefact. She is not stupid, of course, and does so in front of
> everyone so as to make it difficult for him to refuse.
> 
> OOC: Some of this may of course be true. If so, I'd be looking to play
> off Moment Yearning's Wisdom of the Green Age. Also, it's a way for my
> character to participate in all this unholy Western mumbo jumbo.
> 
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