%% date:: [[2024-01-07]] %% # [[001_20240107 The first Word of Power]] %% ## Video [Video](https://youtu.be/7XuSkxBdacE)  %% --- ## Log ### Big picture: Three nations are united as a signle empire. Rollies Left and right Physical vs online. Play to the right: - Nicole - Marco - Leah On my left: Leah On my right: Marco ### Focus: The magic in this world *Why did the Athenaeum decide to reveal the first Word?* 14 tablets Three nations: - [[Corbeil]], the sea nation - [[Josee Rousseau]], reporter for the Corbeilian Helios - [[Drystan]], finders of the tablets - [[Chief Arbiter Agtos Bluecloak]] from [[The Athenaeum]] - [[Susan Page]], reporter for the Self Evident - [[The Ruby Moon]] - discovered Corbeil with Drystan *Legacy*: The Stolen Word [[Despin Terrio]] stole the Word two years after it was discovered. He is a research assistant to the Athenaeum for the Word department, but was secretly a double agent for The Ruby Moon empire. He won the trust of Chief Arbiter Bluecloak, and then betrayed that trust by absconding with the 13th tablet. Tablets were found in [[The Black River]], on Corbeilian territory on the seabed. One tablet was deciphered halfway, and only through the breakthrough that the Corbeilian vocabulary and grammar needed to be mixed with the Drystanian language to be able to understand the tablet. The first Word is "water". ### Focus: The Age of Empires and how they were culled *What happened to the 11 now dead empires (that correspond to each of the tablets?)* At the Lab, [[Despin Terrio]] Nicole: [[Cecily Barrow]], Despin's research assistant Leah: [[Guylaine Trepanier]], grad student Marco: Despin Terrio There are 11 dead empires, each one corresponding to one of the tablets.