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[athousandcurses]

Why... why would anyone do something like this?

[Someone has just found out about the library after returning to Caer Glaem, and judging from the stricken, teary state of her face and hushed voice, Grainne is pretty broken up about the attack. She honestly cannot understand why anyone would deliberately set fire to history.]

Why would you try to destroy something so valuable?

[She shakes her head. How could someone take something like books for granted, even so far as to burn them?]

So many things are lost to the ages that we will never retrieve, never regain, and that is with verbal history and story telling. We do not have "books" in our culture; over the years people have forgotten the histories we have passed down to our children because our history is only retained in memory. If someone is selfish or does not pass down what they know, it can be lost too easily! For everything that has been lost, we will never again know it!

[Don't mind the heartbroken, she just has Very Strong opinions on this.]

Do you not understand how wonderful such things are? How precious it is? Recording history in this way is almost a miracle! Can't you see why the loss of even one scroll is denying not just everyone living now, but those who come after us?

Why would anyone even attempt it...

Comments

[athousandcurses]

I... have never heard of those clans before.

[She is giving you the eye, Kayneth.]

[enjoymyatelier]

...Ah.

[it's so weird talking to someone who hasn't been filled in on historical details through the holy grail...]

Well, maybe you will... eventually...?

[athousandcurses]

[Grainne's stare intensifies.]

Did you forgot who my father is?

[enjoymyatelier]

...well, no, of course not. Honestly, they're not that important, given that they're overtaken by a group across the channel to the south... eventually. The language does stick, though.

[athousandcurses]

[A large group from the south?]

Are you referring to the Romans, Lord Kayneth? [That, honestly would set so much into place!]

[enjoymyatelier]

Ah! Actually, no. This is after the fall of the Roman Empire. That does happen, and it was a bit foolish of me to assume that you'd already experienced that happening.

[athousandcurses]

[A spark of joy crosses her face.]

Truly? They are fascinating people and strange to our ways, but they have been nothing but a burr in the side of those in the isles. If they are having problems so, they must leave at some point.

[enjoymyatelier]

Well, I'm not so certain I'd say they ever leave, but I suspect that they'll just assimilate into the general population of where they're living after a time. The empire remains active in the east for several centuries thereafter, but the western half's administrative structure does collapse.

[athousandcurses]

[Well, it's not as much as she hoped, but it's something...

For assimilating, she gives a small sigh. If they are cut off from their empire, it shouldn't be so hard to keep them in line, then...]

I suppose that is the way of it always after an invasion. They are not causing too many troubles right now, but my father always keeps an ear out for news. Tell me again how far into the future you are, Lord Kayneth?

[enjoymyatelier]

Probably close to two thousand years, actually, give or take a century or so. I'm not really certain where, exactly, you two are placed in time, although this does help a bit.

...really, though, the Church is about as bothersome as the empire, if not more so...

[athousandcurses]

Oh, hmm... ah... well...

...The Church?

[Oh no. Please. No. Kayneth. Please dear god no.]

[enjoymyatelier]

Yes, watch out for imperialistic monotheistic religious sorts in the coming years. They're going to muck approximately everything up.

[KAYNETH YES]