While it may have been the undoing of a legendary maga, it has proved the origin point for all advanced studies of intellego since. Cynthea raised intellego from a system of purely localized investigation into an independent discipline capable of "catching the dove in flight and the thought in mind."
January 2006 Archives
Wine and blood and burnt sugar; melos and pastries; shave and a haircut; “You’ve been tampered with through no fault of your own”; Ilba instead of Ilba; what the Corn Maiden needs; when Perdix’ Apprentice wakes; meeting Nil; “What was that horsiness?”; forget, forget; a wyvern attacks; searching the cart of the friend of the friend of the Prince; trees on the march; several conversations, all of them tense.
Going to see the trees; Yem!; Calvus’ theory; the largest boar they’ve ever seen; “You are poison!”; a taste; the sound of rattling bones; milk and blood and water; levitation and fire; branches and corpses; blood puddles; what happened to the path; particular tastes in breakfast foods; killing the tree; “Where is his head?”; the giant holly bush; a cord of dead dry wood; vines, glass, dust; the little Andrew; gathering the priests; when and how to walk the walls; making a village; someone will die.
Here are some potential grand theories on Gaetani monsters. Calvus is currently operating under a few assumptions from a couple of these theories. The question is where does this lead him in useful knowledge. It seems from play that monsters are transmografiable is the "crunchy" aspect he is getting out of these studies. Which is good news for Minkho.
Too many teeth; meeting little Andrew; the difference between theocratism and Eleanoreanism; some of what the magi did while Gi was away; speaking with Nil; whispering with Hoopoe; some lovely, quiet singing; “You get back and you don’t say hello?”; some of what happened in Gi’s room while he was away; the freaky prophecy twins; Gieron and Woochi; Woochi and the Wolf; a premonition, not a requirement; “Are you all right?”; by far the simplest answer; “Buster?”; distractions; Sonata and the Wolf and the unwelcome voices; what about Yem; the Princeling’s hounds, and Fohi; how to get rid of a monster (or two); how to welcome a Corn Maiden.
