Who: @ormir Where: City Square of Eterna When: Progress Day Celebration (Days 1 or 2) Notes: Figure we can kind of start here and then move into the idea we discussed when we determine whatever it is they end up testing
Veseniya had not immediately recognized the man beside her as Ormir, the very same Ormir who she had lacked the context to realize held such a high station in Iskaran court when she had originally met him some months prior. The missive they had been given had ended in a critical failure, but it seemed Eterna had managed to narrowly evade a complete disaster. Despite the fact she likely could have gleaned many important lessons from the points of success and failure in the matter, she avoided thinking of the pursuit as much as she could. Progress Day, despite the fact that crowds and commotion were unattractive to the woman, was at the very least a worthy distraction from the memory. The celebration marked its fiftieth year of festivities–Veseniya had only recently emerged from the Arches she had entered from a secluded stretch of desert only to wander for twice as long as Eterna boasted its progress. Any and all technology was new to her, and with so much to observe she hoped Ormir might excuse her lack of immediate recognition. “This aetherium seems strange to me,” she stated quietly in the place of a greeting when she seemed to notice him. Her voice was hushed as a squire–or something like that–pontificating on the miracle that the substance had proven to be from a large stage on risers not far ahead of them. Many things seemed strange to Veseniya. Her community had been regressive and simple. Even the commonplace tools and materials of the present day and age had been something her cult had struggled to supply themselves with. For a cult that worshipped a god of wisdom, they certainly welcomed needless strife and suffering. The spores druid ignored the over-animated, performative display meant to titillate the crowd and build tension before some mysterious invention was to be revealed. “What do you make of this miracle material?” Veseniya, given her personal history, did not believe in miracles, only darkly twisted arcana that those in power insisted were miracles to advance their own agendas. She did not know if Eterna and its queen were the same. But might Ormir have formed an opinion on the matter?
