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open | an alenroux press release
[A couple weeks after the conclusion of the Exalt Oracle trial, a communion message goes out to all Kenos’s shard-bearers — at a brisk mid-morning hour for Springstar residents, and evening for those night owls in Highstorm. Surely an agreeable enough time for all, yes? The voice will be familiar enough to anyone who listened in on the ambassador talk a Kenos month ago; it’s Liem, mayor of Alenroux Meridian’s resident straight man.]
Greetings, everyone. I have some updates to share regarding efforts to make Alenroux fully and safely inhabitable, which I hope you will be pleased to hear.
Last month, prior to the events surrounding the Oracle, a contingent of Springstar military overseen by several shard-bearers launched a multi-pronged expedition north into Alenroux’s forests, in order to locate the source of the monsters that continue to infest the woods. While I’m sure those of you who frequent Alenroux will have noticed that the flow of especially dangerous, augmented creatures mostly died off after the dismantling of Aetós’s underground facility, we have not been able to expunge the general monster population from the forest despite ongoing efforts, so this was an attempt to remedy that.
These expeditionary forces succeeded in locating three separate cornerstones and portals that were previously disgorging monsters. At this time we think it likely that they were connected to the timestream in some way that allowed creatures from other worlds to come through, but the portals themselves proved extremely hazardous to life attempting to breach from this side. All three have now been destroyed, and while we cannot say with certainty that there are no further portals out there, we are optimistic that this will allow the danger to those living in Alenroux to be further reduced by the joint forces still stationed there.
If you have further questions, you may direct them to me, or to Hayame, Akua Sahelian, Keitaro Miura, Gray, Byleth Eisner, Link, Kim Dokja, or Dee. [He means D.]
Greetings, everyone. I have some updates to share regarding efforts to make Alenroux fully and safely inhabitable, which I hope you will be pleased to hear.
Last month, prior to the events surrounding the Oracle, a contingent of Springstar military overseen by several shard-bearers launched a multi-pronged expedition north into Alenroux’s forests, in order to locate the source of the monsters that continue to infest the woods. While I’m sure those of you who frequent Alenroux will have noticed that the flow of especially dangerous, augmented creatures mostly died off after the dismantling of Aetós’s underground facility, we have not been able to expunge the general monster population from the forest despite ongoing efforts, so this was an attempt to remedy that.
These expeditionary forces succeeded in locating three separate cornerstones and portals that were previously disgorging monsters. At this time we think it likely that they were connected to the timestream in some way that allowed creatures from other worlds to come through, but the portals themselves proved extremely hazardous to life attempting to breach from this side. All three have now been destroyed, and while we cannot say with certainty that there are no further portals out there, we are optimistic that this will allow the danger to those living in Alenroux to be further reduced by the joint forces still stationed there.
If you have further questions, you may direct them to me, or to Hayame, Akua Sahelian, Keitaro Miura, Gray, Byleth Eisner, Link, Kim Dokja, or Dee. [He means D.]
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The magic that we encountered during our explorations of Aetós's facility was of a different signature than that coming from the portal my team found. There were no traces of Meridian or Zenith to be found in the workings. The links between the portals and the cornerstones do suggest that they were created intentionally, but I would not confidently say by whom.
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[ A rhetorical "really", clearly, but it throws a wrench into the theory that Sebastian had been building up. He'd simply assumed, considering Aetós's use of magic that manipulated time itself and predilection for the monstrous, but perhaps not? So far as he was aware, Meridian or Zenith was required for any ability here, so... Hm. ]
How strange, then. Have you heard of any other cases where something... magical, I suppose, does not bear the markers of the factions? It is the first I am hearing of it, at least.
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[So... where could this magic have come from? He couldn't begin to guess.]
The magic of my home, of course, was not aligned to Zenith or Meridian either. Perhaps the lack of such signatures is related to the portals' connection with other realities. Or perhaps not. Either way, it certainly suggests something strange about their provenance.
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[ Sebastian sighs, since while normally he loves when an opportunity presents itself for him to dive into learning a new topic, that’s not really the case here. He hasn’t had any problem picking up the magic that Kenos offers, but it still doesn’t follow rules the way he would like. It’s a difficult area of theoretical study, and that’s not at all helped by the fact that at least where he’s from, demons and magic may as well be oil and water. He was rather glad to see it essentially die out over time… Ah, well. ]
Well, in any case, thank you very much for sharing your findings, Mr. Talbott. I am grateful that this is not a matter locked behind factional walls, so to speak. At least Aetós offers a single point on which we may unite, I suppose.