Timestamp: 1st of Winter 510 AV OOCIf you want the date moved just send me a note The Citadel in Sahova was built in a secluded area. In many ways it was Alahea's last stand, built to last more than ten thousand lifetimes (if the war against Suvan would take that long). Besides its prime location in the middle of nowhere, its temperate and unchanging climate was suitable for the Sahovan Nuits. Never too hot, never too cold. The undead bodies were susceptible to the wear and tear of weather, the island was a perfect place to prevent unwanted putrefaction. Morwen's embrace do not reach as far as Sahova. The first winter day was just any ordinary boring day, so similar and so alike many other winter days. In fact, the only thing frozen about Sahova during winter was its ceaseless existence as a research facility. Boredom had already consumed many lives, both of the living and of the undead. In fact, it was not uncommon to hear Nuits declare, "It's so boring I'm going to die!" And die they do. Of the few living inhabitants of the island, Frankie Lee Tieh could be considered the - for the sake of calling it so - most adaptable. She was busier than most Nuits, always doing something here and there: slave to a wizard whose name she did not know, obedient to the golem who would give her her orders. In fact, she was just as mechanical and golemic as the Sahovan golems when it came to work. Diligent and unhindered, that's what she was. Tieh was a common name in the island. This was because she's unique: in that she was alive and that she was treated with preference. Whoever her master was, he had good connections. Tieh's projects were not a secret: she works with Konti. Konti remains, that is. Her obsession with the powers of the daughters of Avalis and Laviku was almost maniacal. Some of the apprentices she had hired would usually feel secure knowing that they were assigned to a human, only to find out later on that Tieh is worse than some of the undead. (She drinks blood. She probably eats people, too. Ewww.) She had been known to drive her apprentices mad as she prisons them in her special laboratory to make them do endless research on how to fully utilize a Konti's corpse. Konti tongue, Konti teeth, Konti eyes, Konti bones - name a Konti body part, and she would be able to provide you with in-depth research about them, together with a Maledicted item. It could not be denied that she was also a prized wizard in the community of Sahova. Here was a talent who can. And so whenever she requested for additional help, Lector Qiao would always never disagree. Anything for the productive human wizard! And so it was that in the Winter of 510 AV, two Nuits found themselves assigned as apprentices to Tieh for the whole season. Ushered into Tieh's untidy office by a Communicator Golem, the two boys were in for a good training from the best. If what they were about to do could be called "training" at all. There she was, looking half-dead, greeting the boys cheerfully, "How's the weather?" |