This is an incredible revelation - I can’t imagine what Sullivan went through hiding in the Palace of Doors for weeks.
When I started reading this letter I thought for a moment; “Aw, this will be the sad but light hearted story of Sullivan finding the Ebenguard guild hall”
Evidently, I was way off base.
This settles it for me, if I had any doubts they are gone. The Silver cannot be allowed to continue, their path ends here.
Sullivan… made mistakes. The way any human would, but especially one who feels a call burning in their heart. But he also sacrificed, more than any average man would, to make all of this possible.
Deirdre will probably need time to process this. This goes beyond any of the other revelations he’s shown her thus far, I think. There’s so much we didn’t know. So many questions still.
You’re either much more or much less cynical than I am. Sullivan had a truly extraordinary life, though, and I cannot imagine how he endured it all to bring us to this point.
Imagine such a fortress, and all the magiq inside it. Although I confess I have the feeling that what Sullivan did to get out of there… meant significantly less magiq is inside it now.
It makes me burn for adventures and, at the same time, shake in my boots a little at the scale of the universe, compared to our understanding of it.
So since we haven’t mentioned our resident dream boats in a while. Does anyone else think the Silver was the shadowy organization pulling the Cagliostros strings through the years?
I wonder why though a group seemingly dedicated to hoarding magiq put up with someone visibly spreading news of it with his shows? Maybe they tried to keep it all in one person to use when they needed it?
That’s a great point @Robert. I just pulled up my notes about The Cagliostro because I remember him mentioning the (disgusting and terrifying) ritual and “device” that passed on whatever was in him, as if it were a specific power or entity.
Could they have had some plan for him that was more public or front-facing? Or perhaps could only partially contain/control what was in him? Or, and this seems out of the ordinary for The Silver, but Cags was a cash cow, could his performances have been funding something? Them? Martin mentioned him pulling in millions of dollars in a night’s performance.
Sorry, this is what happens when I go into research-mode. Wild speculation and endless arbitrary facts make Endri a happy Captain.
Actually now that I think about it… Cags’s server was hosted by Kemetic Solutions, so we know there’s that connection. And we know that the Silver were using KS to learn how to close doors. If I recall correctly, Teddy even called KS’s building the palace made of doors in the last livestream. But that begs the question…how’d KS get the cash to run that huge research facility, pay (maybe?) its employees, and fund all the tests and such. That’s a lot of money, but it seems like they weren’t doing anything commercial, so maybe those million dollar tickets were going back into the door-closing research?
At one point Cags said, “Funny, to posses all of this power yet still be at the whim of those who posses nothing more than flakes of paper and broken toys.” KS had that magiqal journal and “broken” adepts like Watcher and Port (or they thought she was broken, at any rate). I’m also quite curious who his successor was supposed to be. I don’t think it was Teddy. Cags mentioned it was a man not magiqally inclined, but who had wealth and influence and was groomed to be his successor from childhood. With Lauren MIA, guess we’re unlikely to ever find out though.
I thought Teddy and KS were trying to reach the Palace of Doors through their adept-powered gate - that’s why the Storm wiped them out, they got too close. That was my understanding of it, anyway.
This is a transcription from the livestream. It’s from a biased source (Teddy), so take it with a grain of salt (7:16):
“It does. It’s why we’ve done all of this the past few months. Threatening Aether, putting the life of a young man at risk, like Brandon like your son. It’s catnip for you. Why do you think we’ve had that girl in the chair over and over and over when I’ve had the last fragment of her mind in my head for months? To bring you here, because with you, here, we’ll be able to bring all manner of power to our side. To the palace made of doors.”
Looking back on it, it’s not clear if Teddy sees Kemetic Solutions as the palace made of doors. But at the very least, Teddy is claiming to be able to at least bring things to the palace made of doors. My understanding of his statement was that he was going to use Marty as a magiqal “magnet” of sorts to attract magiqal people/artifacts, and then store them in the palace of doors. That makes the palace seem less like a goal, and more like a place they already had access to.
My theory is that the Silver were using KS to further their goals, but destroyed them when they got inconvenient. Probably the Silver has had many pawns throughout the years and KS was just the modern one. Like Endri mentioned, we never knew who Teddy was communicating with in the notebook, but the Silver seem like a reasonable guess.
I can’t say if it’s right or not, but I do have tin foil in spades.
It does make sense, though, doesn’t it? While the Silver is very, very protective of who can access magiq, they do let some people in, when it serves their purpose. They do the same thing with The Low - it’s filtered access, so the lowest tiers know very little and have to work their way up, with those who don’t prove their worth (or who can’t be trusted) being memory wiped. But I suspect they always have a stable of magiqally knowledgeable folks to use as pawns. That’s how they’re able to track down all these small pockets of magiq so efficiently.
This is an incredible revelation - I can’t imagine what Sullivan went through hiding in the Palace of Doors for weeks.
When I started reading this letter I thought for a moment; “Aw, this will be the sad but light hearted story of Sullivan finding the Ebenguard guild hall”
Evidently, I was way off base.
This settles it for me, if I had any doubts they are gone. The Silver cannot be allowed to continue, their path ends here.
Sullivan… made mistakes. The way any human would, but especially one who feels a call burning in their heart. But he also sacrificed, more than any average man would, to make all of this possible.
Deirdre will probably need time to process this. This goes beyond any of the other revelations he’s shown her thus far, I think. There’s so much we didn’t know. So many questions still.
You’re either much more or much less cynical than I am. Sullivan had a truly extraordinary life, though, and I cannot imagine how he endured it all to bring us to this point.
Imagine such a fortress, and all the magiq inside it. Although I confess I have the feeling that what Sullivan did to get out of there… meant significantly less magiq is inside it now.
It makes me burn for adventures and, at the same time, shake in my boots a little at the scale of the universe, compared to our understanding of it.
So since we haven’t mentioned our resident dream boats in a while. Does anyone else think the Silver was the shadowy organization pulling the Cagliostros strings through the years?
I wonder why though a group seemingly dedicated to hoarding magiq put up with someone visibly spreading news of it with his shows? Maybe they tried to keep it all in one person to use when they needed it?
That’s a great point @Robert. I just pulled up my notes about The Cagliostro because I remember him mentioning the (disgusting and terrifying) ritual and “device” that passed on whatever was in him, as if it were a specific power or entity.
Could they have had some plan for him that was more public or front-facing? Or perhaps could only partially contain/control what was in him? Or, and this seems out of the ordinary for The Silver, but Cags was a cash cow, could his performances have been funding something? Them? Martin mentioned him pulling in millions of dollars in a night’s performance.
Sorry, this is what happens when I go into research-mode. Wild speculation and endless arbitrary facts make Endri a happy Captain.
Actually now that I think about it… Cags’s server was hosted by Kemetic Solutions, so we know there’s that connection. And we know that the Silver were using KS to learn how to close doors. If I recall correctly, Teddy even called KS’s building the palace made of doors in the last livestream. But that begs the question…how’d KS get the cash to run that huge research facility, pay (maybe?) its employees, and fund all the tests and such. That’s a lot of money, but it seems like they weren’t doing anything commercial, so maybe those million dollar tickets were going back into the door-closing research?
At one point Cags said, “Funny, to posses all of this power yet still be at the whim of those who posses nothing more than flakes of paper and broken toys.” KS had that magiqal journal and “broken” adepts like Watcher and Port (or they thought she was broken, at any rate). I’m also quite curious who his successor was supposed to be. I don’t think it was Teddy. Cags mentioned it was a man not magiqally inclined, but who had wealth and influence and was groomed to be his successor from childhood. With Lauren MIA, guess we’re unlikely to ever find out though.
I thought Teddy and KS were trying to reach the Palace of Doors through their adept-powered gate - that’s why the Storm wiped them out, they got too close. That was my understanding of it, anyway.
This is a transcription from the livestream. It’s from a biased source (Teddy), so take it with a grain of salt (7:16):
“It does. It’s why we’ve done all of this the past few months. Threatening Aether, putting the life of a young man at risk, like Brandon like your son. It’s catnip for you. Why do you think we’ve had that girl in the chair over and over and over when I’ve had the last fragment of her mind in my head for months? To bring you here, because with you, here, we’ll be able to bring all manner of power to our side. To the palace made of doors.”
Looking back on it, it’s not clear if Teddy sees Kemetic Solutions as the palace made of doors. But at the very least, Teddy is claiming to be able to at least bring things to the palace made of doors. My understanding of his statement was that he was going to use Marty as a magiqal “magnet” of sorts to attract magiqal people/artifacts, and then store them in the palace of doors. That makes the palace seem less like a goal, and more like a place they already had access to.
My theory is that the Silver were using KS to further their goals, but destroyed them when they got inconvenient. Probably the Silver has had many pawns throughout the years and KS was just the modern one. Like Endri mentioned, we never knew who Teddy was communicating with in the notebook, but the Silver seem like a reasonable guess.
I can’t say if it’s right or not, but I do have tin foil in spades.
It does make sense, though, doesn’t it? While the Silver is very, very protective of who can access magiq, they do let some people in, when it serves their purpose. They do the same thing with The Low - it’s filtered access, so the lowest tiers know very little and have to work their way up, with those who don’t prove their worth (or who can’t be trusted) being memory wiped. But I suspect they always have a stable of magiqally knowledgeable folks to use as pawns. That’s how they’re able to track down all these small pockets of magiq so efficiently.