The Why of It [Attn: Elia Darrow Sedai]

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Re: The Why of It [Attn: Elia Darrow Sedai]

Post by Bella » February 8th, 2017, 11:48 pm

Friends. The word caused something deep inside her to constrict. They were so much more... How can you not know that? Aren't you vaunted Aes Sedai supposed to know everything?

She reined herself back in and glanced at her hands where they were in her lip. Andra inhaled slowly and may have had more trouble figuring out her feelings or getting them under control, but the next thing that Elia said sent a cold shiver of fear through her. She just barely suppressed her shudder at the idea.

But then again, what did she expect when she came to speak with this woman? She had to imagine there was a possible to be near more of such objects... If she wanted to learn about them, she had to get over any issue she had being closer to them. (The idea of being an Indigo, for what little she knew, seemed...unlikely. But she didn't say that.)

Lifting her head, she looked at the Indigo again and nodded slightly. "Certainly, Aes Sedai. Thank you."

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Re: The Why of It [Attn: Elia Darrow Sedai]

Post by Craig » February 13th, 2017, 2:13 pm

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Once more, Elia rose to her feet and glided through the doorway into her bedroom. A silver tray, with a collection of objects upon it, sat on the floor beside the bed. There were protocols about removing objects from the Vaults, and Elia pressed the rules to the limits in that regard. She crouched beside the tray, one finger running over the different items in her ter'angreal menagerie. A couple were of her own devising, with the rest reasonably well researched. In the end, she selected three items of interest.

Carrying them with care back through to Andraste, Elia laid them out on the small table between them. The object to Elia's left was one of her own creations: an small iron disc with a spiral engraved on either side. In the middle she placed down a wooden statuette of an elm tree. Lastly, and with care, she arranged a silver chain around an amethyst pendant.

"These are all ter'angreal," said Elia without preamble. "They differ from angreal and sa'angreal because they do not enhance a channeller's strength in the One Power. Instead, these three particular objects all share a certain attribute: they don't need the One Power at all to function."

Elia placed a hand on either side of the wooden statuette's trunk and came immediately under its influence. The features of her face softened, removing the sheen of Aes Sedai aloofness.

"Daimenin al'Donai, one of the Grey Tower's former M'Haels, created this particular piece. It's one of a number of tree-shaped ter'angreal he made, and it only needs a person to touch it to feel its effect."

With a slight reluctance, Elia separated her fingertips from the tree. Her next consideration was the iron disc marked with a coarse spiral on its upper surface. She lifted it up, but kept her fingers away from the grooves on either of its faces. "This is an item of my own creation, which I was able to make as an Accepted. It is based on rather old designs from a White Tower sister who was fascinated by ter'angreal and Tel'aran'rhiod."

The Indigo traced a finger around the edge of the top spiral. "Like Daimenin's trees, making contact with either spiral--" she flipped it to reveal a smooth spiral on the opposite face "--will induce certain feelings. But unlike the tree, it has an additional purpose." Elia briefly grimaced. "But we shall leave the telling of that tale for another time."

The iron disc was returned to the tabletop, and Elia turned her attention to the amethyst pendant. She hovered a hand near it, but refused to touch it. "Now this is an interesting piece. I understand the purpose behind Daimenin's trees and this disc, but the pendant here is of an unknown origin." Her lips pressed together in dissatisfaction. "It can have both a negative and a positive impact on the wearer." There was more she could share, but seemed little need.

Elia withdrew her hand and folded them on her lap. "Feel free to examine any of the pieces, child. So long as you don't channel, they will do nothing of permanence to you."
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All three ter'angreal are in the Vaults. The amethyst necklace is the third entry; the disc with the spirals are the fifth entry; and you can find the tree by searching for "A forest of individual carved wooden statuettes".
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Re: The Why of It [Attn: Elia Darrow Sedai]

Post by Bella » February 15th, 2017, 11:13 pm

Andra looked over the pieces that the Indigo Aes Sedai laid before her, and she tried to not eye them like one would a snake in the grass or a growling wolf upon a rock. She knew that each one possessed power she could only imagine at this point in her existence and training, and that very power scared her.

Idly trying to escape her growing fear, she wondered why Elia Sedai had chosen these three. There had to be more about each of them that she was not telling the Novice, but that was alright.

She didn't...disbelieve Elia, when she said she'd be not permanently affected so long as she didn't channel, but she couldn't seem to bring herself to touch any one of them. Her hands remained folded on her lap as she looked at them, and she struggled against an urge to outright bolt and sprint from the room.

Of course she didn't, but it was a very near thing.

"Th-they are fascinating, Aes Sedai," she managed, although her voice had suddenly lost a few levels of volume and had also inherited an uncommon stammer. "I suppose I never gave much thought to how they were made, or that people right here in the Tower could make them." That seemed a little safer to think about. Process, not impact. "Thank y-you for showing them to me."

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Re: The Why of It [Attn: Elia Darrow Sedai]

Post by Craig » February 16th, 2017, 4:42 pm

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Elia wrinkled her nose. Are you interested in ter'angreal or not! The bumpkin was staring at the three items like they were two steps getting ready to lunge. Did two steps lunge? She didn't actually know what a two step looked like, but she knew they were deadly.

"You can go, child, if you are out of questions." Her face was a blank canvas, but there was no questioning the derision dripped from her voice. "I wouldn't wish to keep you from your chores."
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