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Me? I’m a Balimoran

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Your side thing says you’re Thornmouth?

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Weird. You are right. Apparently I was a member of both balimora and thiornmouth groups.

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As the granddaughter of a man that spent his free time studying Greek culture and mythology this got me more excited than I care to admit! Okay, so the root Chronos refers to time because of two figures in Greek mythology.

The one that is more well known in the titan Cronus (Kronos). He was the King of the Titans and the god of time, and for him time was seen as a destructive force. Nothing could stop the turn of time, and time devoured all things. He was to be feared.

The other is the primordial god of time, Khronos (Chronos). Khronos was believed to be snakelike, with three heads, one of a bull, one of a man, and one of a lion. In the myth he and his consort, Ananke ( primordial goddess of necessity, compulsion and inevitability), split the world egg to form the ordered universe of earth, sea and sky. Once this was done the two circled the cosmos, causing for the rotation of the eternal passage of time.

I don’t know of this clears anything up, but I hope me nerding out helped out a little.:smile:

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I agree that the numbers seem like a count more than anything else. I dont think its a coincidence that they’ve all come in numerical order. I think if we could pinpoint when these numbers were written down ( not when we found them) it could give us a better clue to their significance.

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My brain has got into full on time travel mode.

If Aether is a Gossmere, and the dark end of that chronocompass needle is distinctly pointing to Goss, and Dee is heading somewhere indistinct by its very name, is she heading into the future or through the veil to find Aether, while we on the other end of the needle need to go back in time via some serious Thornmouth type study.
It is time to apply for the extra library card for the “forbidden” section of books?

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What if the chronocompass represents some sort of countdown or maybe a gauge of time passed / that we have left until etc. happens? I don’t know. I feel like there’s something about it that I just can’t grasp.

-sigh- :disappointed:

Oh well. I’ll formulate theories later when we have more information on everything.
I’ve met my involvement quota for the day!

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I think I have some more insight into the Neithernor. It has to do with the nature of the Ebenguards sphere; of balance, borders, and change. It’s related to Evolutionary Magimystics. The Neithernor is a state of being between “doorways”. Whether physical or otherwise. Harnessing the power of the Neithernor allows the caster to gain the greatest potential energy for change. Hypothetically, you could become anything you want.

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Hey, welcome to the forums! If you don’t mind me asking, where’d you learn all that about Evolutionary Magimystics? :open_mouth: Want to make sure I’m not missing anything :sweat_smile:

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Otherwise known as The Between? Betweens are usually like door ways, windowsills, and or Midnight the inbetween hour.

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So @Endri asks if we’re missing something. Are we? Let’s go through it all again then.

We have to

The Mountaineers must use the most dangerous of magiq

And

The Mountaineers must reach out to the past

We have a chronocompass on Fletcher’s site.

We have a chronocompass in Deidre’s hands pointing to Gossmere. (OR Thornmouth some suggest.)

We have the name Neithernor.

We have a blank journal.

We are missing something or not realizing the significance of something.

Unless Sullivan is expecting us to make up a time travel spell on our own to an vaguely defined point of time in the past… In which case I vote no. I’ve seen enough bad sci fi to know that’s not a good idea.

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Is it possible that we have to go back in time to when history was rewritten?

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What if we have to go back and rewrite the monarch papers?

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Both things are possible. What we need to focus on though is the most likely tangible clue we’re missing. We need to find the start of Fragment 13. This can’t be that complicated…can it?

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Well, if we are going to do a bit of time-traveling, we can’t mess-up the past, beside what we need to do.

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I dunno if this helps, but here’s a list of all the sites we should be checking regularly?

I’ve been trying to check them regularly, but I haven’t noticed anything… :disappointed_relieved: Maybe using the compass direction as a guide, we need to add something like /Thornmouth to the end of a site…?

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I don’t think adding anything to them is gonna work unless it’s really long, complicated and impossible to guess. It’s just too easy…

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Just spitballing some things:

  • The Fletcher Dawson website has the Joradian safeguard symbol on it - so maybe there is something additional hidden on there? It could also just be there to protect from people bruteforcing the assessment in its entirety, but just a thought.
  • What ever happened with Portencia’s drawing? I’ve been combing through the last phase to see if we missed anything, and that stuck out as something that we never had a formal conclusion to. It has happened before where we received information during a fragment but didn’t use it at that time and forgot about it. So maybe that’s the case here and we need to find what we have missed?

Just some thoughts.

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It’s hard to say what will happen, just because everything is really different from the past fragments. However, in the past, usually the first clue isn’t ridiculously complicated to track down. Consider the last assessment, it started with a diligent Mountie checking the Lost Aethenaeum and stumbling across the librarian notes. It never hurts to keep on eye on the websites or to try plugging things in.

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New Fragment 13 topic created here. Let’s move discuss over there and I’ll copy relevant posts there as well.

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