PROPHETICALLY SPEAKING HISTORICALLY

Here are a few quips from Aetatlis historians!

This is how you begin? A history lesson? I’d rather wrestle a troll.
– Graimak

What’s wrong, Graimak? I thought the drothmal saw suffering as Droth’s blessing?
–Dysart

Adventurers who ignore history ...
–Isin

Are doomed to repeat it?
–Portand

No. They get killed.
–Calabria

Precisely.
–Isin

Question the authenticity of the scrolls, get "firmly silenced." Message received.
–Calabria

That is not the intended message. The Lyceum Toletren is academically aggressive in their defense of the Scrolls, but that is all. There is no implied threat.
–Aria

The Hearthtales? Are you mad? You can’t believe a word of those things. They’re more fairy-tale than history.
–Vrenn

Don’t be dismissive. They’re an excellent historical record.
–Portand

So the story about the hare who was crowned King of Gelendor. That’s history?
–Dysart

It could be. There are very few records from that period. And his reign was quite short. Assassinated by the Royal Chef accidentally at dinner the same day as his coronation. A tragic tale, really.
–Portand

Having worked on the Codex myself, I can speak to the care given to ensuring its accuracy. It is as close to Toletren’s truth as one will find in the world today.
–Isin

It is worth reinforcing for the reader that the dark spoken of here is not mere evil as experienced by many mortals during their lives, but rather a force of pure malevolence that corrupts the underlying fabric of the universe. The fight adventurers are being asked to take on is not simply one against cruelty and hurtful behavior, but it is a battle against the minions and monsters who serve evil in its purest, most fundamental form.
–Aria

Bah. I’m just in it for the gold. But if I can stomp on the forces of darkness along the way, fine with me.
–Torrica

That section where it says "passed through the crucible" seems to suggest that the Enaros were once mortal. Any thoughts, Aria?
–Calabria

The Enarosian Scrolls suggest that divinity is within the grasp of every person, and we should always be working to make ourselves worthy of that final ascension.
–Aria

That seems unlikely. There is no evidence that mortality is a path to godhood. This sounds more like an effort to influence behavior in ways beneficial to the Lyceums.
–Isin

There is a wizard in Tricos who claims to have a grain of celestial dust. He keeps it locked in a vault and refuses to show it to anyone, but a good friend of mine saw it. She said the wizard showed it to her after he got drunk one night. She doesn’t know if it’s really celestial dust, but said it was unlike anything she’d ever seen and it literally glowed with power.
–Bellynda