Luĉja @ Caion

Hello Friend-Caion. Apollogies for not contacting you otfen. I find it slightly difficult to use this device sometimes due to my size. I have made an interesting discovery. You remember the crystal incident on SAmurda, where Iinfused Pellucid gnosis into my stoneblade, and it became crystal (and also shot a crystal into the sky)? I have similarly infused it with Burning gnosis here, and it has become Irrica, edged in crystal. Irrica was a stone found on Almachadta - many colored and beautiful. If adding all three types of gnosis together forms irrica, it could potentially be useful in our quest to stop whatever it is that ends worlds. I have never attended an Academy or a school, but I attempted to deconstruct a small piece of irrica. I was…not gentle about it. It mostly just turned into a cloud of pollen and flourishing gnosis. I’m not sure what to make of it, but wondered if you had any thoughts? If I am able, I will bring you some samples when next we make it to the Obsidian Road.

Luĉja

Friend! It’s so good to hear from you. I really need to work on some sort of assistive technology for the tomestones for people whose hands aren’t Naiad-sized. (Operating these devices with one hand is, also, harder than operating them with two hands, to an appreciable degree, which is… something I would not have properly thought of, prior to my disability, and it’s something I should have taken into consideration in principle. Lessons for the future and future improvements, I suppose! I digress.)

I’d love a sample of irrica to play with - if you have any, or can get any, and send them along with Archie, I believe his intent was to pay a short visit to Samudra if it was possible to do so while you’re on the Road. That is fascinating and I’d like to try and understand what’s happening. Have you tried merging plentiful burning gnosis into a substrate of flourishing, and seeing if it makes something other than crystal? (Whatever it makes, I’d love a sample of that, too - and then I’d like to try and see what happens if I wove pellucid gnosis into that, then. Maybe I could replicate your work from a different pathway?)

GReetings, Friend-Caion. I bear news of further experimentatoin. I infused a rock with tenebrous gnosis, ofllowed bt Raidant gnosis, and it made A PEARL!

It did what?

I- I am torn between the urge to immediately attempt to replicate this experiment and the immediate ethical questions which rise in response but: what?

It made a Pearl. One tiny pearl. I made a second one. They kind of moved back and forth towards each other a little. It is interesting that an addition of radiant is pearl. That now makes compounds for life on three planes (crystal - Almachadta, pearl - Samudra, aurichalcum - Beast) but they…don’t line uip like you’d expect.

That behaviour is what I would expect two individual small pearls to exhibit, as we know them here. That’s fascinating information, thank you for sharing it with me.

It surprises me slightly that the materials don’t line up - it’s not like, for example, Samudra is devoid of Radiant gnosis. The fact that there’s no pattern to it at all - that the Burning-aspected material is the one which is present in life on the Beast - is bewildering to me, though. If, for example, Samudra had aurichalcum-based lifeforms and the Beast had - whatever we’re calling the Flourishing subprocess’ result - then that’d at least have a pleasing symmetry, but no, of course that can’t be the case.