Life In Oorah Thrassen: Research into Locador Demons [22 Lage 4385]

[sythyry]

Mirrored from Sythyry.

Nangbang and I stopped in Oorah Thrassen overnight on our way to Srineia. (Nangbang was — dare I say it? — only slightly sickened by the long teleporting session.) Saza showed me things that I cared about.

Saza: “I have learned certain facts about Locador demons. Indeed, I have learned more about Locador demons than ever before. Strange beasts!”

Me: “Tell me of this matter!”

Saza: “People have become Locador demons altogether, at least temporarily. There is a pattern spell for doing so, or there was; nobody I have asked admits to having a copy. I have asked spell-sellers, so I don’t think they’re lying about it; they would be glad of making a high-priced sale, I should think.”

Me: “A notable fact! I was not sure it could be done at all. Is it relevant to Feralan though?”

Saza: “It might be. Four hundred and some years ago, a Rassimel noble — Icispachi — spent some weeks in the form, and wrote a book about it. I am trying to get a copy of the book. We might get some insight therefrom.”

Me: “That is, at least, more than I knew before.”

Saza: “Don’t look so disappointed, coz!” Zie gave me a flickery licking kiss on the cheek, which rather startled me. “We’ve gone from ‘This is unheard-of!’ to ‘Similar and related things have occurred!’”

Me: “Truly, an important conceptual evolution.”

Saza: “Now, I haven’t tracked down anyone else merged with a Locador demon. But there are cases of merging with the demons of seven or eight other elements — including Magiador, which is tantalizingly similar in various ways.”

Me: “I didn’t know that!”

Saza: “You are clever and inventive, but a bit unaware of things that happened centuries before you hatched.” Zie grinned. “One part naïve and seven parts nubile, coz!”

I blinked at zir a bit.

Saza: “Anyhow, I am prevailing on scribes in various cities to give me records of these various prior spiritual entanglings, and what was done about them. I promise nothing — but I expect everything!”

Me: “I expect no less of you!”

Saza: “And, of course, I am tracking down the locations and qualifications of various experts in disorders and maladies of the spirit. If we need to take Feralan somewhere — Green or Inihithre perhaps — shall we wait until you can come along?”

Me: “Probably so, at least if it is a matter of a few days. We’d need to travel by airship in any case; perhaps mine, which I hope will be repaired by then.”

And so on. No actual answers, but various forms of hope, and many places where further research is possible and might yield answers. It is much easier to do this sort of thing from Ketheria. It is also much easier to do it if one has a thousand-year-long reputation as an ingenious and honorable magus than merely a hundred-year-long one as a nendrai-wrangler and pervert. Hiring Saza was absolutely the right approach.

Comments

Re: Well...

[dracosphynx.livejournal.com]

I wonder what a corpador elemental looks like.

Getting tangled up with a Tempador elemental might be relatively straight forward -- the Tempador elemental may be aware of how long the situation would last, exactly.

Re: Well...

[alex-muridae.livejournal.com]

Luckily enough, that's quite easy; a corpador elemental is made of flesh and bone and sinew and scales and feathers and claws and teeth and fur and bile and all that other good stuff the rest of us make good use out of. Actually, they're somewhat hard to spot, because they're rather close to beasts and monsters and such, and there are very few of them; it's one of the reasons that Kavarse usually acts through her knights instead of her elementals.

Re: Well...

[shurhaian.livejournal.com]

It could kind of be the other way around! Kvarse might prefer to work through people, and thus didn't bring many elementals with her.

A Corpador elemental might be made of fleshy things, but it might not have them put together in a way that makes biological sense. Some of them might resemble things that might be labelled in this world as "eldritch abomination"...

But then, given some of the monsters on the World Tree, that doesn't help much either!