Seekers of Spirit and Form
Sixth Day of the First Month 294 AC
Home of Naria the Lorekeeper, Sorcerer's Deep
Her maker had been rather surprised when Naria decided to buy a house for herself in the city. There was room in the keep, there would be even more in the palace, but there was just something that got under her skin in the keep. In part it was all the politics, messy stuff that with about half the people involved not able to find their own asses with a mage lantern and a raven's map, only present because of who their ancestors were. Maybe it was wanting a library to herself even if it was smaller. The incarnate preferred to think of it as cozy instead. Maybe it was just that moving out of their ancestral home was just what most children who were not heirs
did.
Regardless, Naria ended up getting herself a cozy house near city hall. About half of it was library, which Beryl bluntly told her was an affront to all sensibly proportioned architecture, but she didn't care. After all, what she was taking up the study of this month would in some quarters be considered an affront to values more deeply held.
The Guardian Seeker construct loomed on the other side of the chamber, obedient, silent, and inscrutable.
Tall, dark, but not quite so handsome, the ridiculous comparison came so suddenly she outright giggled, though thankfully there was no one but her assistant to hear. "They say a lady living alone should be careful who they invite to stay the night. Let's see what you are made of..."
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Eighteenth Day of the First Month 294 AC
The final piece of the puzzle it turned out was a surprising one, summoning. A summoned creature did not possess a soul or a mind like the being it was imitating, but it did possess something very like the
anima Seekers made use of to interface between the spark of primordial law and the flesh it governed. Of course, one could not just cast the spell and leave it at that, not if you wanted a construct with a lifespan greater than minutes. The process required a ritual of stabilization and one more of attunement in what was an odd hybrid of flesh-craft and enchantment. Someone else would have probably come up with a different answer, but this was Naria's and she was quite proud of it. It was completed within budget and on time, after all.
The forge in Gogossos would have to graft some metal bits onto all the fleshy parts and Urak would probably get all huffy about it.
Could a snake even huff, or did they just sort of huff more loudly? Naria briefly distracted herself wondering before shaking off the thought. Her namesakes would have a future beyond what the handful of units recovered in Gogossos could do, and if it was a more expensive one than what the Valyrians could manage, well, the Valyrians had paid that price and a thousand thousand times more just by being slaveholders. Naria had once glanced at the numbers for 'projected economic loss of mass slavery as opposed to servitor use' and it was either side-splittingly amusing or tragic, depending on how one felt at the time.
Reforging Anew the Secrets Lost Complete 12/4: Can now craft all types of Construct. Due to the work-around to ethically craft them, Seekers cost 33% more than other creations of their CR to craft.
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OOC: I thought about including more actions in with this one but they really did not fit, out side of Naria's focus for this month. When she was not working most of it went into moving out and filling her brand new library. Not yet edited.
