Just a shot in the dark (and aren't they all?) but I always thought Mnemoli looked suspiciously similar to mnemonic, which is related to memory.

Also,

Secunda: set destination, cataclaxm.

What is a Pelinal from "The Pelinal"?

I assumed it was referring to Pelinal Whitestrake.

• Cosminach, Nu-Mantia Intercept
  
• Poetronach, Xal-Gosleigh
  
• Atronach

Cosminachs absorb Magicka from the cosmos, space, Oblivion
Poetronachs absorb Magicka from poetry, writings.
Atronachs absorb Magicka from,...from what exactly?

Don't know if this helps, but one of the three Fates of Greek mythology is named "Atropos". From the Wikipedia:

"inexorable" or "inevitable", sometimes called Aisa) was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner of a person's death. When she cut the thread with "her abhorr?d shears", someone on earth died. Her Roman equivalent was Morta ('Death').


So they could absorb magicka from death or decay, maybe. I probably have the wrong root word, though.

Rather than death, damage? Those born under the Atronach absorb the magicka of spells cast against them. Atronachs absorb malignant magick? Are beings of malignant magick themselves?

Just a note, orichalc was a somewhat mythic metal in the time of Plato. Today its main use is a more formal type of saying brass. Ori-chalc chalc being copper.

Mythopoeic isnt really diferrent from mythopoetic. This too is a compound word, made by mythos (you all know what that is) and the verb poio (it looks horrid after the transliteration, it means to make but in a higher sense, to create). So the general act is mythopoeia and something that does that is mythopoeic or mythopoetic. Same thing. Myth making.

I would like to know about that oil bubble of Sotha Sil's. It seems pretty metaphorical but is it really that? If its not, that whole business with engines shaping the future seems pretty mythopoeic to me, or should I say reality making?

Hey, if Vivec can do it, why not Arkay?

Lots of stuff seems to suggest the mutability of time--Dragon Breaks and such. In addition, though I can't explain it well, a lot of this stuff just plain FEELS like time-travel to me. Like "slingshot the Paravant into era-streams" sounds a LOT like time-travel, Star Trek style. The Void is Outer-Space, though the fantasy nature of it makes it wierd. When you travel through the void, you leave the realm of linear time, and into the realm of possibilities (hence, they call it a "dream-sleave jump" referring to the fact that a dream-sleave can transmit ideas that don't yet exist, or whatever).

Thus, when you slingshot into an era-stream... you're time-traveling.

All you have to do to become a god is to be around for the creation. All you have to do to be around for the creation is time-travel back to that "time". Thus, both Arkay and Vivec, though they were mortal men during our own timeline, ALSO are gods from the state of things before linear time began. So which came first? In terms of time, the gods came first. In terms of what I'll call life-flow, the men came first... but the world in which they existed was CREATED by the gods...

Only madness can result from such a line of inquiry.

Why?

Yes, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythopoeia not made-up ones.

I'd like to know what CHIM is.
If I remember the context correctly, it could be something close to nirvana, but then again, I want to be certain.

http://til.gamingsource.net/translation/

Like stardom, eh? Interesting.

CHIM is being able to comprehend the one-ness of the universe, how everything is everything else, and that you are nothing except a part of everything, and yet still being able to say "I".

That's my favorite definition of it, anyway.

Which basically means being God, as in Yahweh.

Err... sort of? Yeah, I guess that kind of works. That's not really what I think of when he says "I am who am" - that, to me, is more of a reference to the fact that god is who he is, and will do as he wishes, and there's nothing anyone can do about it.

CHIM is more of a sense of enlightenment, an ability to comprehend everything without losing yourself.

Yes, I like that better myself. We still do not have a definite answer to what it is, though, as there are differing definitions.

Carlovac Townway: "I wasn't able to go to the Clockwork City in doing research for 2920, so I had to rely on outside sources for a brief description of what it was like and what the Wizard did within its walls. At the end of the First Era, Sotha Sil had built it up over two thousand years. Brother Mikhael Karkuxor in 'Varieties of Faith in the Empire' repeated the most common understanding, that in his Clockwork City, Sotha Sil was 'reshaping the world.' I think this is true, but I don't believe his machines only went one way. The oil bubble burst at the end of the novel was perhaps obscure, for it is unclear whether the chaos of the Second Era was caused by a simple malfunction of the clockworks, or if the death of the Emperor Reman triggered that tiny little change in the machine ? As a historian, I dislike ambiguity, but as a writer, I recognize its usefulness. The world and the machine are one, and the cause may be unknown, even when the effect becomes visible.

Either way, I don't think Sotha Sil's machines did (or do?) shape the future, but the present."

Mister Townway, this may be a bit more esoteric than your domain of predilection, but are you familiar with the symbology of the Towers? Because from my limited understanding of them, if Sotha Sil used his Clockwork City to reshape the world, then the Clockwork City is a Tower.

While you are here Mr. Townway, would you mind sharing your progress on "The Last Year of the Second Era?" (:hehe:)


And another wordd I'm curious of is "Aldudaggavelashadingas" or does it just translate to "The Songs of Dragon and Dagon?"

Carlovac Townway: "I've always heard it described as being underground. If it is a tower, it's ... an underground one. Peculiar that."



Carlovac Townway: "Considering that it is more recent, it's much harder to write than 2920. Everytime I write up a cast of characters, some expert comes along and says that two characters are one, and I have to research that. Slow moving, and my editor is very cross with me."

Uh... find out the summoning ritual for Ehm'Kaye.

haha so nobody knows what a daedron is?

CT: "That's all right, whenever I get bogged down, I just turn to ME 1, and 3E 433."

I've always wondered what 'Cutting-Globes' meant, care to elaborate Hortators Av Agea? ^_^

http://til.gamingsource.net/obbooks/hanging_garden.shtml, as seen here...