Today’s work finally cleared up one nagging problem and may have also improved some other things.\u00a0\u00a0 Well…on second thought it cleared up a couple of nagging problems, one of which is a definite untied knot, and the other of which may create new nagging problems if I’m not careful.<\/p>\n
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I’m trying to draft with one part of my head and braid the strands with the\u00a0 other and that’s not going too well.\u00a0\u00a0 It finally dawned on me that I need to take one entire day on the braid, because then I’ll see more clearly where the gaps are.\u00a0 DUH.\u00a0 I do this time after time and you’d think I’d remember how to do it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At least by now I remember how to turn the heel on a sock without having to look it up!<\/p>\n
At any rate–and not much spoilerish, I don’t think–we know from the first series that Kieri was said to have inherited some of all three mageries: elven, magelord, and Old Human of the north.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m still trying to figure out which part of which goes into his putting the magelords into enchanted sleep and then waking them 500 years later,\u00a0 because I should know, but a more present problem was “How can he access a magery he inherited very distantly from a people who no longer exist in the present, and whose heritage of mage-knowledge was completely lost?”\u00a0\u00a0 You can’t just go from knowing there are well-spirits to placate and that blades should be blooded before plowing in respect to Alyanya to re-acquiring the knowledge of Old Human magery.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The very language in which to think and chant and tell those things has been lost.<\/p>\n
But.\u00a0\u00a0 Kieri was talking to an elf (no surprise there) and something brought to mind his Midwinter experience in the ossuary.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is one source of Old Human magery who just might help him understand what he inherited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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