I have moved and I've kept on moving, proved the points that I needed proving

[mythalenaste]

WHO: Pel Ashara, Morrigan, Salem Ghilain, Katniss Everdeen, Mal Reynolds, Sam Gareth, Merrill, Sina Dahlasanor (via sending crystals)
WHAT: Studying elven ruins in the Hinterlands
WHEN: End of Wintermarch
WHERE: The Hinterlands
NOTES: Some fighting, altogether Indiana Joneslike archaeology. Meaning it's not really archaeology, it's just fighting and mystical weird ancient places.

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veilfire rune

[mythalenaste]

Pel shines the fire in front of the rune with an elated smile.

"Salem, come here. Book, now."

That's as much talk as she can manage. She's gonna be parked here for hours.

[fortheloveoffalondin]

Salem might not have been completely happy with his being made to carry the heaviest of the supplies for this expedition, but being here in the first place more than made up for it, and he was mildly awed when he stepped into the ruin, hopping down over broken stone and holding one of the books close to him. He looked up when Pel called for him, holding it out immediately then tilting his head as he looked over the rune glittering faintly in the fire she was holding aloft.

"Brilliant," he said quietly, grinning right back at her then kneeling down and pulling his codex from its belt on his hip to copy down the most important information as she relayed it.

[mythalenaste]

Pel gazes at the rune. This is why she has come all this way. All this way for one little rune. And it feels...euphoric. Incredible.

"Frustration," she breathes. "Anger, helplessness. Entrapment, maybe." She feels elated, feeling the things an ancestor felt in an ancient day. It's a powerful rush. She takes a deep breath. "It's a schematic."

[fortheloveoffalondin]

"A schematic? For what?" Salem stops in his writing, looking quizzically from the rune to Pel. "If you can feel what it is then are you sure it's safe? It won't...I don't know, corrupt something? Like you, for instance?"He might admire magic, but he's also well aware of how dangerous it can be if it's mishandled, or even just accidentally used or touched the wrong way.

[mythalenaste]

"It's safe. It's only information. The enchantment is only in conveying the information." She flips through her own journal hurriedly. "I'm not sure what this one's for, but the Inquisition's arcanist will know."

[fortheloveoffalondin]

"So it's imparting the information through sensory...things. Words. It's conveying feeling while telling what it is." Salem's brow creases some as he looks over the glowing rune, copying the pattern, though just the visual representation was a poor substitute for what Pel was learning as she was. For a moment, he was rather envious.

"No doubt lady Dagna will be damn interested in whatever we find here."