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[villieldr]

WHO: Valentine Nicasus Maxence Mérovée Olivier de Foncé & Magni An Fjorleif O Talonhold
WHAT: a meeting of ARTISTS
WHEN: a time
WHERE: memorial garden, Kirkwall
NOTES:

( Avvar may not be a common sight in High Town, and certainly not in the Memorial Gardens. Magni knows this, and much as she might have her long, dramatic moments of pause concerning a great deal Lowlanders get up to and their faith, she respects the gardens and what they stand for.

She had come here to set down a piece of rock in the gardens amongst some of the others - a stone for one of those of Varmas & Co, one not known to have died in Kirkwall, but feared to have done so. Certainly he had not been heard of since that day. The rock is one from the Frostbacks, set down discretely in the back of a flowerbed where it could not be disturbed, before Magni withdrew to simply take in the peace of the gardens.

It was a place of reflection, perhaps of inspiration, but she finds herself stopping short as she squints at the largest fountain, the centrepiece, assessing it. Her arms are crossed, she looms a shade closer to seven feet tall than six, and her skin is speckled with black dust from the forge.

None of that matters, though, because she feels like that fountain isn't on centre. )

Comments

[degenere]

[Val waves a hand of forgiveness.]

To be expected, yes.

[Because yes of course there is little emphasis or weight given to books, that's to be expected when dealing with the Avvar. No judgement. It's just a little sad, really; a strong oral tradition is beautiful in its own way, but it cannot possibly compare to books, and so on and so forth.]

I hope to see Ozammar myself one day. I will be sure to set an appointment with you, once I have. Though if you have any sketches of its design, I would love to see them, if I might. I would be more than happy to share some of mine from Kal-Sharok. Many can be found in a paper I published a few years back--I will write the library-- [the University library, of course; it needs no introduction] --and request a copy for you. Even if you are no great reader, you can appreciate the sketches at least, hm?

[He's all smiles. If this might be interpreted as a kind of sideways insult, whoever did that interpreting would be so wrong.]

From those studies and the formal paper, though--yes, you are right to guess it: Kal-Sharok was a source of great creative inspiration to me. The innovations created by its founders, so many years ago--aqueducts, and the movement of water, have ever been a great interest of mine, and the dwarves of Kal-Sharok rely on a series of pumps that draw water from deeper below the ground--and sometimes from lakes above ground, if you can believe such a thing! What is more, their aesthetic design is unparalleled. It is as if these ancient people saw fit to wed functionality with beauty. True innovation, by my standard.