Crikey, I melt in an unusual exam season heatwave and I come back to Omar Khyam and constellation maps! well done chaps.
There’s a chance the chance Fletcher Dawson’s book may be a lost book, one that we only have the merest hints of.
If Omar Khyam himself is the swallow, can we pin a location on it for the map? Maybe the location of the original text Edward Fitgerald translated?
She lead her soldiers according to the wiki, which would mean she’d need armor. There’s a “myth” around her and her ladies dressing as Amazons during the crusade…
@EliseCeri I figured it was irrelevant considering your original phrasing. I just didn’t know if we were making connections to birds or not. (Since we matched the Swallow with Omar Khyam)
@MissEvans Good idea! I’ll look into it…
@WarriorRose OHHH i see no, i wish i’d found a connection to birds though!! that would be super helpful
@Nimueh I missed that, that’s actually a really good find. I’ll look into that more!
Do we want to maybe move the Lost Athenaeum list to another thread? Just to better organize/keep track of the responses.
heeeeeeeeeeey everyones back, excellent. Sits back and has juice, too hot for tea
@inky Lightweight - its 28 degrees C here and I’m still drinking tea.
My British addictions are probably nothing to crow about however.
Would the book reference have anything to do with the fun stuff Steve shared yesterday?
The 12 Heavenly Bodies is where people need to be checking in, couple of us have been having a good crack at this the past few days.
Think we need to re-evaluate where we are and what clues we’re still utterly stuck on.
Totally irrelevant but @MissEvans is correct with her tea addiction.
It is better to drink hot drinks on hot days because it is less of a shock to your system, as opposed to a super cold drink we normally reach for.
Carry on with your good and relevant work Mounties 
Just a question though, we find physical locations - epic - but then what do we do with that? Or will that become clear when we (read: you guys) pin point them all? 
Honestly I can’t pretend to have read all of what you guys have done but im impressed by what Ive seen! Good work guys!
Honestly, we have no idea 
We’re taking it one step at a time!
We’ve got 20 clues, and I think 22 points on the constellations, so in theory, if it works, those extra two will sit on a location/s of importance.
My inner nerd is showing… Nasturtium is a genus which includes Watercress. Watercress, incidentally, is one of the nine sacred herbs of early herbalism. A possible reference to Magiq? (Source: Culinary Herbs, 2nd ed.)
Let’s make sure any contributions to the 22 clues discussion goes in the Phase 3 Assessment thread.
I’m not sure if this is where to put this, but the flames in the background of the Book of Briars have gone away just now, and I’m not sure what that might mean.
They seem to still be present on my access to the book, though it’s taking longer to load than usual. If you reload/open the book again in a new tab, are the flames still missing? Is the book itself still damaged, or does it appear whole? And is anyone else not seeing flames?
For the record, all day when I reloaded it the flames were missing but when I tried to access the other pages connected to it the flames came back. I think it was actually a false alarm, sorry about that.