Proudly puts on Tinfoil Tricorner hat.
im going to make a guess and say that if the Tales of Wonder is actually AG, it would go something like this.
AG, AB, WG, AG, WG
with
A = S
and
W = N
G = W
B = E
so
SW, SE, NW, SW, NW
but this is based purely on conjecture and the idea that the lighthouse ties to Thornmouth.
I’d say it was some kind of substitition cypher, but given that each of the letter designations of N E W S are not within a single letter of each other i doubt it.
If we need a final knocking point, maybe we use East, for Ebenguard. given we have an Ebbie Ghost and an Ebbie Sabes.?
EDIT: Unless i got my designations mixed up and the lighthouse ticket is WB not AB, in which case, refer to Robert’s above post.
so unless we’re taking ToW to be NE due to its use of it,
we have SW, SE, NW, SW, NW for me,
or NE, SE, NW, SW, NW
or NE, SE, NW, NE, NW
or NE, NW, SE, NE, SE
thats 4 possible combos.
maybe we can try a couple?
or sabes can maybe weigh in and see if any of them feel right.
EDIT: personally i like NE, SE, NW, SW, NW, E as the possible set. it feels more like a key to me.
So I was thinking…we’re taking a very guil-centric approach here (which makes sense, that’s how we got to other knocks). But are there other things that we could try to connect to the clues that might link them to the knock? We have six elements, linked to the guilds, as well…and we did just invoke them to call the corners…
The alchemical wheel! it has elements in cardinal directions! The japanese has a belief that there is a fifth element, called aether or void.
here we go, found it. its actually chinese in origin.
okay, so going off that. the order is aether, light, tides, thought, and ore. Seems like the chinese thing wont do, so im gonna go with probably… North,East,West,South,South
however, you then also have the japanese circle, which has void in the north.
Witches have a similar belief.
The idea is that body is the star the hands are air and water the head is spirit and the feet are earth and fire and all five are need for balance. maybe the answer lies in the placement of the witches star and the directions and some kind of elemental spell you have to cast in order of the objects found. For example the light house has AB on it which is SE which aligns, if soul is north, with fire.
Wow, it’s interesting that all of these systems are so similar to each other; plus, they’re also similar to our own magimystical understandings of the elements. I think it’s a really good example of the idea of many paths leading towards the same truth. Since Woolie was a magimystic, though, I think it’s safe to say that we’re dealing with the same six elements that are associated with our six guilds.
So that would mean that it would be NW (Gossmere’s position on the chronocompass), W (Weatherwatch), E (Ebenguard), SE (Thornmouth), and then either NE (Flinterforge) or SW (Balimora), if Sabes is right.
So which one do we think the last one is? Do we think Sabes has it right?
I guess it comes down to which aspect we think means the most, the material or the subject matter.
I’m one of the worst people to ask to make a decision like that, but if someone were shouting for me to make a choice! I’d likely throw my first guess at it being Wild.
We could try and ask Woolie again. He seem to be the only one with actual answers instead of more questions. We could try what @Saberlane with woolie did again. She was the only one of us to have some insight into what is woolie But if we do try it again this time we will need to be more prepared. There is a spell called the mind hedge that could protect the person from going insane when the try to get close to woolie and a relatively simple spell to cast. @saberline seems to have suffered from information overload which is common in possession victims because they have two minds inside them but do not know how to process that amount information. So what a mind hinge should protect The next person who tries it from suffering the same fate as it will not protect from a complete merge with woolie. But like I said it is risky and possibly dangerous. I would understand if no one would want to attempt this, but it is a great chance at finally getting some answers rather than questions