Savin's Ledger
As my mentor Thaumalogical Research mentor Gothak Sortan used to say, "All data is valid data. In the field it is not the measurers duty to attempt to interpret what data is valid and what is not." While I have been fortunate enough to rarely find myself in the position of field assistant, it would appear that this is now the role that I am forced into. Fortunately, however, I am not subject to the whims of of some softheaded Palsinist and, instead, find myself in the position of gathering data to further my own research.
To this end, I shall endevor to record my experiences as accurately as possible. I shall, at a later date, review this ledger in order to distill proper theoretical conclusions from the data thus gatherred.
After traveling through a failing portal from Furlough and encountering some semi-permanent Collective Spontaneous Thaumological Fields (see my Treatise of Magical History) during the theoretically instantaneous portal voyage, I found myself back in Haven.
It appears that the magical changes that I encounterred in Furlough had persisted into Haven as well. Further, they were at least a quasi-stable phenomenon. Simple solar and cosmological observations allowed me to determine that approximately 97 years had passed during our travel through the portal. Once I have access to proper instrumentation, I should be able to further refine this time.
I have determined that certain Spellforms seem to nearly be capable of functioning. I have managed to get a handful to work though their results no longer corepsond to previous emperical results. I believe that their is an orthogonal relationship between the third, seventh, and thirteenth forms to the second and ninth. This bears further study.
My companions and I finally reached a small settlement after being forced to engage several groups of goblinoid raiders. I hesitate to call it a bastion of civilization for the town possessed no library, observatory, or proper mage college.
I headed over to the Temple which proved to be a simple inn of rough but acceptable quality. There I encounterred two human men and a halfling woman with whom I enterred into discussion.
Of particular note was Marcus who claimed to be a magical scholar. I question the validity of this particulat assertion. To begin, Marcus subscribed to the Helvan school of thought! His thaumological series are divergent beyond the seventeeth iteration of divinational transmogrification! Marcus does not seem to have access to any spellforms whatsoever.
In any event, Marcus was researching a dormant portal within the Temple. He has a formulaic proof that he believes may lead to a possible reactivation of the portal. While I question the basis of his evocative theorems, this research is still worth investigating.
To this end, I proceeded to the mage college to which Marcus had directed me. Unfortunately, this "college" proved to be nothing more then Marcus' domicile. I restrained my instinct to label Marcus as the Lotrian that he clearly is and instead headed to the halfiling's shop directly accross the street.
The puveyor of this shop sold a variety of products that she called "Alchemical". I will have to do research into the etomology of this word. The shopkeep (whose name escapes me) claimed that these items had arisen in the time since the failure of magic as a replacement for the services that magic had provided.
This claim seems unfounded. Instead, it seems clear to me that alchemy is a previously undiscoverred magical control form (again see my treatise on magical history). Her assertion as to the cause of alchemy's discovery does seem well founded. The powers of these alchemical items seems decidedly weaker then the spellforms that I previously had access to. As a result, research before the changes to magic likely were abandoned as unfruitful.
One of my companions talked to the mayor and the watch captain. It was revealed that a nearby kobold encampment had fallen out of contact with the town. I was strongly interested in investigating this development. Because dragonkin express one of the innate magical control forms, I wished to discover what effect (if any) the changes had caused to their access methods.
While I wished to investigate this theoretic branch of research, I decided to accompany the rest of my group who had chosen another direction.
While traveling, we came across the sight of a caravan that had been ambushed. Certain reptilian (or possibly reptiloid) tracks indicated the possible involvement of kobolds. Following these tracks led us to a recently abandoned temple. Draconian grafiti strengthened the kobold theorem even further.
We were able to follow tracks from this temple to an abandoned mine. This mine proved to actually lead to a secret underground hiding place of kobolds.
We encountered several groups of kobolds and a brief interview indicated that they were reluctantly under the trall of a blue dragon. As a result my party has been careful to avoid undue casualties amongst their number. It is my hope, that once we have dealt with this dragon, Yulia (my dragonkin companion) may be able to restore some order to this group.
I am also hopeful that encountering this dragon (which obviously of purer dragon blood then a kolbold) will further refine my understanding of the new state of magical access.
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