Well, I have an idea what the last key’s theme would have been.
I have no idea where we start now that the book is destroyed, but something big is about to begin.
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So we need to do…something.
I don’t see anything new in the lost athenaeum.
Nothing obvious on fletcher’s chronocompass page (Although…does the compass look…moved to anyone else?)
bookofbriars.com/neithernor does nothing
The only other site I know of that’s still up is kemetic.solutions, but it’s just got it’s creepy logo.
Hmmm, any thoughts where to look?
Man, this is a lot to process. So the last lock’s theme is…time?
I wonder what Neithernor is? The name alone makes me think of the Fray - a place in between worlds. I know we’ve heard of the phrase ‘neither here nor there’ during the first lock - from the Devoted and King Rabbit’s website. But that doesn’t give us much to go on. I’m not gonna lie, I’m pretty worried for Deirdre.
Time. Time travel.
We go back in time? To the point where magiq was taken from the world, or to another pivotal moment we don’t know about yet?
I’m intimidated, but…
Right now that’s all I got. Blown away.
I wish I had like a cool Ram’s horn that I could blow and in my deepest, most booming voice exclaim “Mountaineers Assemble”.
I am a little flabbergasted to say the least. And a little uneasy. We thought we were in uncharted territory before. If that’s what that was, I don’t even know what we do to describe this. This is going to be fun, and strenuous, and exhilarating, and nerve-wracking, and scary… There is nothing else to do but…
MOUNTAINEERS ASSEMBLE
And @Robert - I am not sure I am quite ready for you to start calling on King Rabit
Everyone knows I loathe KR (treating his actual name like Candyman’s) but according to the Oracular Eye, the creep is working with The Council, therefore, on our side?
Friends must be hard to come by in Council land.
Oh, I definitely fully understand he is on our side after what we learned from the Oracular Eye, I am just not quite ready to hear “King Rabbit” just yet, you know? Robert did the right thing reaching out
Couldn’t the council send Queen Mole, or Prince Squirrel instead?
The position of the guilds (and their corresponding elements) on the compass is actually based on times of day. We got this from a poem back in fragment 7 or 8ish.
This is from @Mike’s great post.
I’m kinda hoping we find or get advice from someone before we start creating a time travel spell on our own. But if we were to start spit-balling ideas about how to create one. I think having the guilds and elements go in reverse order would be a good start.
There is quite a bit here to unpack. After my first few read throughs, I get the impression we’re meant to find the door to Neithernor which Deirdre will walk through. How we find it, I have no idea.
But there was something else that caught my attention:
“The Storm and its master.” This would seem to indicate that we are ultimately up against an individual. Knowing who or what that individual is would certainly help us. And it would be nice to know who they were before the Master of Storms gets around to introducing themselves (that’s even if they ever decide to do so). “Know thy enemy,” as Sun Tzu said. It’s hard to go into battle without knowing exactly who you’re fighting.
Time travel. The raising of the past/dead? Both pretty dangerous as far as I’m concerned, irrespective of who come back from that past.
Neithernor also strikes me. Is Dee off to a land of indefinites (neither one thing nor another) the future, perhaps? Whilst we deal with the past?
The Storm has a master. That implies it has been summoned or created, it is not an entity or action with complete free will.
The council seems to be on our side against the storm (anyone else a little reassured by this, I’m sensing the need for big boots here?).
@Robert - there’s been a rabbit next to my Jeep every morning when I leave my house since your post, and now there’s one next to my Jeep here at the gym. Being a common and reproductively proliferative species, it’s probably a coincidence.
However, a very wise but possibly deranged old arcanist once wrote: “Do not call up that which you cannot put back down.”