Have any of the local kids taken to spending time there with the nice spiders?
The Child, some years later: Wait a minute. The We are only like one third Wizard Things and the other half was just Diplomat Things. I was lied to!
Given that the words "Grey College" and "secrets" were used and came right after the paragraph on Old Ones lore, I think they're only telling specific people about Old Ones lore. Advertising our collection of botany lore doesn't sound like the kind of thing they'd do.
@Boney is "father" something you went with yourself or do you have a source for it? I'm only aware of him being called "creator" of the elves.
...Huh.
The books included in the White Tower did not come into existence when Bel-Korhadris commissioned it, or finished it. The accumulated knowledge of Ulthuan was gathered into it. That knowledge had been damaged by the Sundering, but not erased. Note how Ulthuan retains the capability to repurpose Old One monoliths to turn into nexuses and that Laurelorn never had. It is self evident that Ulthuan knows a lot about the Old Ones that Laurelorn never discovered.
The Colleges have Imperial +5s for all four.
Yes, it is possible they didn't retain knowledge of Arcane Khazalid. I think that's unlikely because a lot of people who knew the language would have lived in the Old World and been unaffected by the Sundering. Because you know, that's where you can collaborate with Dwarfs the best. The War of the Beard would have fucked a lot of them over, but the Dwarf's increasing extermination efforts would have incentivized many to share knowledge about Runesmithing to better contribute to the fighting against deployments of Runecraft. Those who knew a lot about runesmithing ended up getting evacuated to Ulthuan. It is possible, but unlikely.
I mean, I assume they have translated it. I just don't think they're going to share that any time soon, and so if we want the Colleges to have access, we either do it ourself or wait until some NPC tackles the problem (which will probably not be in quest scope).
Oh, so it's the really obvious daughter that took us way longer to figure out. Figures.
Clearly, the solution to this is to simply bring the Eonir writings on sports and arts to her penthouse and put it next to her books on romance and stuff. We do have a room that was used for Mathilde's library, and with KAU's existence I recall there being some talk about how we might need to replace it at some point.
To be fair, Ladrielle might be Haletha. Then we still need to figure out the second Daughter.
The second Daughter is Asuryan.
Asuryan died and then showed up again wearing a mask. That was clearly Ranald's other daughter taking up His mantle sneakily. The elves stay winning, there is in fact no contradiction.
I strongly recommend people check it out.
Worst-case scenario is we use it for an Enchanting project down the line.
So anything Malekith or Morathi say then, makes sense.
So... The whole question of how to release the information about Aethyric Vitae and the Orbs of Sorcery (which sounds like the title of a fantasy novel that's trying very hard) to the Colleges has been itching at my mind for a little while. I'm sure that this has been discussed before but, well... Considering the possibility that Mathilde's jaunting off to Ulthuan for a bit quite soon, it's probably worth doing again! If I'm mistaken about any of the below or it's been reasoned out more thoroughly somewhere that I didn't find in my cursory search, please correct me!
Personally I'd rather save up for Druchii lessons with Khupfer.
