He's just returned from a rather fraught expedition to the Turtle Isles, and it would be some time before it would be safe to once more sup dosages that would allow him to heft a sword in one hand and a staff in another.
Okay so Teclis gets out of the Tower but it's draining and takes a lot out of him.
For now, he must serve Ulthuan and the world from his gilded cage.
He hates being stuck in the Tower due to politcs and his physical state but there's the solace that he's doing good work to help the world.
He itches to investigate it himself, as he so often does, but he'll have to settle for sending someone else in his stead, as he also so often does.
Dude is a nerd who wants to poke at cool stuff like all proper magic users but his responsibilities hold him back. That really sucks.
The extra energy arriving from the Empire is proportionately much larger than these, and cannot be solely attributed to the general waxing in the energies of Chaos. His eyes are pulled inexorably towards the window from which the phoenix eyrie can be seen, but no, blast it.
Teclis does want to visit the Empire and the colleges as seen by this track of thoughts, but he his responsibilities stop him from doing so.
The only possible explanation is that bit by bit, stone by stone, the network is expanding. More than that - it is being expanded.
Here's the realization.
"Oh, my sweet, clever children," he laughs, and lifts his quill with a flourish to start writing a series of letters that will make a lot of Elves very upset.
He's so proud and happy about this.
The letters he's writing is likely him flexing his political weight to help the Colleges/Empire/Humans out, which is gonig to be great and a glorious mess.
The thing about being Teclis is that being Teclis means being a magical genius on such a scale that you can body fucking Malekith while you're still the elf version of a sickly teenager juicing on magical steroids just to stand up. If it was anyone else, we'd probably have gone unnoticed quite significantly longer.
The absurd thing about Teclis is just how young he is in comparison to his peers in magic. Sure the Curse is a major thing and the fact he's dealt with it as well as he had is one hell of a feat, but he's still able to punch out Cthulu as young as he is reactively.
Shows something we weren't thinking about though, if the Eonir could detect K8-Peaks why couldn't the High Elves? Especially since they'd be heavily monitoring the Network since their island and the Vortex both need it.
So the big increase was probably them picking up K8, if the Eonir could, then the Asur could too.
I mean it did take Teclis to detect it as quickly as they did, normal mages would've connected the dots eventually but no where near as quickly.
Ok! So this tells us several things.
- The Asur do in fact have ways of monitoring the exact flow of energy coming in from the Empire, probably an entire team to oversee it.
- The Journeyman trio is hard at work - the Water Spirit tributary only takes three days to do, so at three Journeymen that explains the observed once-a-day increase. Them being right next to Sylvania probably helps too.
- We can actually call Teclis dad without it being weird.
Journeyman Trio is going insanely well, props to them.
I wanna get the Orbs made so Mathilde can ask Teclis how he got his supply of Aethyric Vitae. Just because.
Yeah we all really want this.
The thing about Ulthuan noticing is the person responsible for doing so is fucking Teclis, the guy who has Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Wisdom, and Charisma for dump stats.
I really want to see how you handle this because it's going to be glorious.
"Ooh ooh, then do you want to see what I did with Vlag??"
I think Teclis would be proud and amused.
I'm going to guess that Teclis is about to make an argument to some people that, as the Empire/Colleges have clearly already figured out how to add to the Waystone network, it would only be responsible to give them enough information to do so safely.
So as to who he's pissing off- many, many people.
Elfs are also going to blame him for humans even being able to figure it out in the first place. There's the complications with the Eonir relationship as well.
It figures Teclis of all people could put it together from all the way over in Ulthuan with second hand reports that only touch on the flows of magical energy.
Yeah it's kinda Teclis's thing.
he is an elf, I expect his next decade to consist primarily of boasting about how smart he is for convining some humans to make more waystones
I'm imagining Teclis acting like a more smug Maes Hughes.
If the recipients of Teclis's letters were going to be mad at what he has to write, some of them are going to be even more mad when they get the actual details from the Empire. Dwarves resurgent, Marienburg in peril, Druchii making diplomatic overtures to the Eonir and the Empire, and at the center of it all is Asarnil's scribe!
Yeah Elf's are going to be so confused by Mathilde and the Phoenix King isn't likely to be positively disposed towards her.
On another note, this update really drives home just how much of an impact the curse has on Teclis, even though he's clearly aware of exactly what his limits are, knows better than to push past them, and has figured out ways to work around them in a lot of situations. Which, in turn, drives home just how much he did in coming to the Old World.
I'm getting some Eda from Owl Hose Vibes in how well handled the curse/long term illness is handled.
I'm about 85% convinced that's what is going to happen if he does come back. Beyond the hilarity involved, it'll given Boney more time to work out what the effects of Teclis returning to the Colleges (and presumably updating/adding to the curriculum) would be. I doubt every College is suddenly going to get a dozen spells added to their spellbooks, but presumably he'll be able to look at how the Colleges have grown in the two centuries since he was last here and smooth out any misunderstandings or critical flaws.
Maybe he'll finally be able to explain the Divine Magic thing, given that we know it's BS.
I imagine there's tons of stuff Teclis would love to teach to help out, even one turn's worth of effort from him would really help the Colleges.
Again, people, it didn't actally say he will be the one coming to check the empire, just that he is sending letters.
hope, but don't assume.
Personally I don't think he'll be able to come to the Empire himself initially but he'll likely send a Apprentice or favored Agent of his to check things out.
i am currently attempting to use my willpower to manifest an outcome where we have the morbs done before the elves show up
On the one hand, they're elves, they don't generally do things quick, so we might have another 6 months before anyone shows up.
On the other hand, elves take the Waystone network very seriously, so if anything is gonna spur them to act quick, this might be it.
Orbs just as Telics arrives would be one hell of a flex, along with Mathilde getting Telics to come back people may want her to become in charge of the Colleges based off that.
Teclis returning is kind of hopium at the moment, but, like, it's logical hopium? I mean, if someone in the Empire is expanding the network, it's not unreasonable to assume the Colleges are in on it. If they are, then whether the verdict is to aid them or stop them, Teclis would be a logical choice to send since his status in the Colleges would allow him to do either with ease.
Also, on another note, I imagine Teclis will be exchanging info with the embassy to the Empire, to try and see how the Colleges have done this, since the embassy seems to keep an eye and ear out for new magical developments. They may point to Middenland and the Eonir, possibly the fog bridge if that gets done, but the topic of Waaagh and Peace might also raise Teclis' interest.
Mathilde's work with interesting stuff mainly Dwarves, Skaven and Orks would be interesting to Teclis. Same with her research into the Divine and using multiple Winds. But what would interest him the most in my opinion would be Wind Ascension.
Oh.
Well that makes me glad we did not sign off on the Druchii.
And also…Oh boy. We need to haul tail on those Morbs or freaking bury the plan.
Same because that would be really awkward.
"Ok people, let's all calm down! Algard get the banner, Reicthard your on fireworks duty, Mira I want spotlights everywhere, Feldman we need enough tables to seat all of the colleges, Paranoth you do the refreshments, von draken your on crowd control AND WHERE THE HELL IS OUR MAN FROM THE CELESTIALS!
we only got half a year to make this the best damn "welcome back, we missed you" party this side of lyonesse."
Dragomas approximately 0.3 seconds after learning teclis is coming.
The Colleges are going to be so happy but Algard and Dragomas are going to have headaches from the paperwork. If Mathilde wasn't a shoe in for future leadership before she is now one for sure.
