Glyphdisk[s] 1;2;3;4;5;6;7 on...

Mantra-seeds syllablating...

HALT! Crown glyphdisk's storm-wall
requires lullably to continue;

Sing now;

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[THRU THE KEYHOLE];

&--#62; Greetings, ephebes, I am Hathecatur, Masser College's Chief Node Archivist. Please keep your disks properly attuned as I will not be re-firing this node in the event of soph slippage. And be warned, you will be subject to trials on this data.

&--#62; He was born Otrechto in Ijiilurria, a small commune dependancy of Sollic Ahnker. His birthers were low-caste orchard-hands, yet his Aldic traits were apparent even at pupa-stage. Free floating anecdotia offers that at only 2-cycles mature, Otrechto had mastered the differential mysteries, despite scant access to intellectual materiel.

&--#62; At 4-cycles maturity, his birthers managed to persuade the lord of Sollic Ahnker to provide the youngling with sufficient lineage to allow entry into a Shell Academy. Poor ancestry is a moral failing in Summurset, it must be remembered

&--#62; Otrechto attended the prestigious Psidra El Academy in Cloud Rest. The records of his gestation here are strictly encrypted, but we can safely infer from his swift matriculation to Artaeum, after only 2.5 cycles, that it was very fruitful.

&--#62; Naturally, Psjiic occultation is wholly immaterial to the grasp of our glyphs. Smoke through the digitals. Popular bavard holds that he was the direct protégé of Rite-Master Iachesis. We have no means of verifying this, neverthless, it is probable he was quite successful, as after only 5.7 cycles he reappears on the node network as the official Psjiic councilor to King Rilis of Firsthold, under the ritual name Phthynnis.

&--#62; His mission was the same as all Psjiic councilors: direct their patron in the strict regulation of magickal proliferation and practice within their domain. This is the sole cause for meddling beyond their own shores. Do not fall to sentiment. The Psjiics broker stagnation; not peace. Anything to ensure the sanctity of their Isle and their Endeavor. Yet, Phthynnis was...of a different mind.

&--#62; We cannot be sure of his motivation, history is a different art than diagnosis, but acting against his vows and the social protocols of Firsthold (indeed, of a Altmer civilization) the confrater entered into secret labors with subversive elements of myriad castes, including many like-minded confraters. The intention was the creation of rapid eye school dedicated to basic thaumatical instruction without regard to caste quarantine.

&--#62; It lasted for all of quarter of a cycle before he was betrayed. A mid-caste royal courtesan under Phthynnis' tutelage performed a contrived illumination thaume in the presence of the King, thoughlessly hoping to curry his favor with workings far beyond the merit of her ancestry. During technical interview, she broke easily and revealed all. Rilis had Phthynnis and his colleague rounded up and brought before him, joined shortly then by Iachesis.

&--#62; The Rite-Master's mere presence occults the fine details of the arbitration, but we have sufficient impressions to make definite inference. Confrater Phthynnis accepts culpability for his trespasses, yet successfully argues the case for open thaumatical instruction, stating that plebeian ambition and curiosity being incorrigible, bureaucracy should prove a better balm than suppression.

&--#62; As compromise, the violators are granted clemency, but relieved of all ancestry and memberships and exiled from the Isles, thereafter non-castes, non-elves.

&--#62; Phthynnis and his followers sail to Cyrodiil, and petition Reman I. The Imperator is more than happy to grant them a charter, but his hands are tied by the nobility. The Niben Battlemages distrust these queer newcomers, for they are foreign upstarts whom threaten their own monopoly on thaumatical labor. They insist on an old Alessian statute forbidding the granting of anything but death to heresiarchs and elves.

&--#62; But no one in his party is an elf, Phthynnis reminds Reman. They have the writs of anathema to prove it. But henceforth they might, with his blessing, be Cyrodils.

&--#62; Thus did Phthynnis of Ijiilurria formally attire himself, with draught of royal blood, Vanus Galerion, loyal son-citizen of Mother Cyrod, and Archmagister of the Imperial Thaumalogick Society (The Battlemages would dub it the 'Mages Guild' as a pejorative, comparing them to common craftsfolk, only for the Society to later take on the name as a badge of pride).

&--#62; But even with a charter and considerable material wealth (dishonor does not squarely equate with disenfranchisemant), The Society-anon-Guild, having no members of the patrician class, could not purchase property within sight of White Gold Tower, according to yet another ancient statute resurrected by the Battlemages.

&--#62; Thus Galerion purchased a tiny fishing village on the far shore of the Niben from Bravilia, called Cadlevva. There he established his Arcane College, around which grew the settlement of 'New Artaeum, today known as Artemon. The College, later University, would remain there until the coming of The Septim.

&--#62; From Artemon, The Guild would spread across Cyrodiil, with satellite campuses springing up in every major city of the Heartlands, then beyond to the rest of the Empire, though it would naturally would never gain much traction within the Summurset isles.

&--#62; Thus ends this node sequence. Next microcycle we will be firing the sequence on Galerion's dealings with the Necrophyte Mannimarco. You will be subject to trials on that data as well.

Glyphdisk[s] 7;6;5;4;3;2;1 closing...

Glyphdisk unlocked by lullaby... lolz.

Where did you come up with that?

Good point on the lasting tension between remnants of Alessian worldview in Nibenay and the eventual acceptance of this Psijic heretic upon his arrival. Interesting to think even under tolerant Reman the Mages Guild might not have had an easy time starting. Very nice stuff.

It's never just magical... it's thaumatic.

Very nice. I've always thought the that those Altmer who chose to leave Summurset were an interesting topic in need of elaboration.