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8 months ago ::
Sep 26, 2012 - 11:56AM
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Hi all,
I've been thinking what to write for this for a while, I love the idea, and after reading a good chunk of Urza's saga it struck me that we hear very little about the studies at Terisare, where Dominaria first discovered mana. Would there be any mileage in writing some surviving fragments of these documents?
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8 months ago ::
Sep 27, 2012 - 11:12AM
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I would love you forever. For the record. Although be forewarned, academia is My Thing so I'll totally be evaluating whether the language is pretentious and impenetrable enough. 
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8 months ago ::
Sep 27, 2012 - 2:09PM
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I see your academia, and raise you a paradoxical and obtuse subject.
I did philosophy as part of my undergrad, and currently read vast amounts of stuff about Elder Scrolls lore, where “Alduin is the son of Akatosh, who has always existed, but Alduin and Auriel were Akatosh before he always existed” is a simple cosomological statement. Pretentious and Impenetrable is My Thing.
I'll need to reread bits of The Thran and make notes to see what they actually discovered beyond "mana can make you fly", but this thing will definitely... fly. Not sure when it can be done, as both my job and my house are currently up in the air, but will do it when I can.
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8 months ago ::
Sep 28, 2012 - 1:51AM
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Hmmm... after doing some quick skim reading of The Thran, I've got notes on what I hope is every passage of the Terisian academy research in the book and looked at every card that references Finrod, Loran and Hurkyl. They amount to less than an A4 page of notes.
In doing so Urza mentions that Loran writes to Richlau about their studies. It might be easier to do one or several of these letters, rather than doing the whole "fragmented text" thing from a much larger tome. This may limit the pretentiousness and inpenetrability to a reasonable level. What do people think?
Also, given the scant nature of the source material, does anyone know where else I might find information on theories about mana at this point in Dominaria's history? I'm guessing the Ice Age novels, if there were any, would shed some light on it, but I don't know where to find them.
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8 months ago ::
Sep 28, 2012 - 10:46AM
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If you can get them online it's worth doing, since they're quite good. It might be difficult though, unfortunately. I wish they had gotten the Omnibus treatment...
You should also be reading The Brother's War and possibly Planeswalker. Oh, and pestering Barinellos for input since he's got memory superpowers.
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8 months ago ::
Sep 29, 2012 - 3:21AM
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The Brother's War was what inspired me to do this. I've reread all the bits to do with Terisia's Third Way academy several times, as well as all the cards that reference it. I'm trying to do my homework, but it seems that a lot of extrapolation is needed to actually get properly theoretical. It just gets presented as "we think it's something to do with remembering your homeland, we've called it mana" in the books. There are other hints in there, but not much.
I've got some provisional fragments, with the aim of getting snapshots to both Loran's correspondence to Richlau, some of the archimandrite's notes and Loran's own. It'll hopefully wind up being a visual piece too.
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8 months ago ::
Sep 30, 2012 - 9:12AM
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That's a really cool idea. It would be great to have some pieces like the Innistrad letters in the archive.
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8 months ago ::
Oct 04, 2012 - 8:51PM
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Yeah, experimenting with format would do a lot to spice up treatises like these.
Doing a number of correspondences would offer a lot of variety to how they are accepted.
Aside from that, you could experiment wonderfully with telling a meta-story in and of itself to tie into the Brother's War itself. Take note of some major events and have those make their way into the letters, coming to a conclusion with a set of increasingly distraught unanswered letters sent to Terisia City.
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