Spring 1204
While Alba was busy in the spring in service to Irencillia, Celeste had Lencor show her where the books on the history of the House were kept, and she began to pursue them. She needed to learn more about her house, so she would have a clue as to it’s mysteries. Her pater has shown that he can use the Realm of Faerie to travel, but she wasn’t sure if that’s the right thing for her. Might there be other mysteries that might appeal to her more? Is there something more to the Charms that she learned the basics of?
Lencor was always there by her side, discussing what she’s read, and dropping hints at deeper mysteries. He definitely knew how to pique her interest.
Reading: Secrets of the Fae - House Merinita Lore Summa (L5Q14).
Summer 1204
Alba was talking reading the Summa that Celeste has read last season, so she decided to pursue another goal of hers: improving her Rego, so she might be powerful enough to bind Lencor as a Familiar.
The moment she suggested this to him, Lencor was ecstatic. He literally dragged her to the library to find the right book. But it seems like someone, in their eagerness, hopefully, to find a book, has made a mess of the library. Lencor, while he has spent a few years by Celeste’s side, still felt a great connection to the library that he served as a librarian in, and wanted to find the culprit and make him fix it, and it took all of Celeste’s focus to steer him away from it. And so, Celeste spent the first few days of Summer organizing the library, so that Lencor would be mollified.
And then, she found the Art of Motion book, and delved into its secrets.
Reading: The Art of Motion - Rego Summa (L15Q15).
Autumn 1204
At the end of Summer, Celeste went to see Vinaria, and asked her if she could get two more of the devices to enter the Regio she explored a few years ago. Vinaria was against it, saying that some ghosts have managed to escape it since she’s explored it, and that she’d like it to go dormant again, but Celeste pleaded with her. It might hold the key to her mother’s murderer, and she has learned much since, and is more than willing to lay all the ghosts to rest.
It seemed like Vinaria would refuse her, when Alba came in, and said that she’d assist her friend in this. For some odd reason, Vinaria agreed to the plan. While Celeste was a bit suspicious about the sudden change, she took it, and explained to Alba what she found on her previous visit.
The two of them went together, along with Lencor, and the ghostly inhabitants had little change to stand against two Maga with ghost-eating spells at their disposal. But Celeste didn’t come there just to destroy all ghosts. There were a few that she spared and used her spells to force them to answer her questions.
From her interrogation, she learned that a maga, learned in the arts of necromancy, has used this place as a testing ground. He lured innocents and murdered them to learn how and why they became ghosts. She also learned the name of this Maga, Luna of Tytalus, was the one who performed these killings, with the help of her dwarf apprentice, whose name meant little, since he probably took a different name after his Gauntlet, but was called Emilio.
The regio was still likely under some Infernal effect, what with all these murders, but at least they’ve laid the ghosts there to rest.
When they came out, she asked discreetly, and learned that Emilio has passed his Gauntlet in Irencillia, just before he and Luna left, and that he took the name of Lamberto. The implications were clear to her, but she still wasn’t sure that her mother was one of their victims. It seemed like they were there far earlier than her mother was killed. But he might have some answers, if she dared confront him.
When Alba told her about the Tortoiseshell cats, it was a very nice idea, but Celeste feared that if they stayed in the regio too long, if it is Infernal in nature, it might taint them. But she did talk to Vinaria to have them stay close to it’s entrance, incase a ghost rises, and wanders out of it.
Adventure: 5 xp in Rego, 5 xp in Perdo
Winter 1204
It was time t provide a service to the covenant, but before Celeste could even suggest something, Lambert, her parens, came back, his ass all hurting. Apparently someone has made his donkeys terrified several times during his trip to Irencillia, and the donkeys didn’t just bolt, but also left him falling on his ass.
He called Celeste to help him in his lab, to develop a spell that would prevent such a thing from happening again, promising to also give her a copy of the lab text. It wasn’t her idea of fun project, but hey, it was a chance to help her parens, and get a lab text, even if she had no idea what use such a spell will be for her.
Exposure: 2 xp in Corpus, and lab text for Stance of the Firm-Buttocked Knight.
