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It was late the night after the meeting in the Mists to discuss what to do about O-Rhen and Neruhm, Gallien boarded the airship on its way back to Gridania. He had promised the others and specifically Leanne that he would do as much research as possible into shielding her mind against the wicked whispers of Neruhm. Boarding the airship he searched for the most secluded section he could find, he and Syros put their belongings down near the back with no other passengers around them. Gallien reached down for the grimoire that he always had with him, looking up to Syros “Shall we begin?â€. With a small flutter and a smile, she agreed, over the next few bells and into the twilight bells they recapped the first half of the grimoire that they had already deciphered and could read clearly. They finally reached the end of the certain and the beginning of the unknown around the time the light started to appear outside the airship. For a few more bells they used whatever they had, his research and the knowledge of Nym that Syros had, but…
They could only clearly make out one word “Silenceâ€. With that Gallien finally broke down and passed out.
Quite a few bells had passed while the two had slept, before the airship attendant came and tapped him on his shoulder “We have arrived at Gridania sirâ€. In sheer exhaustion he had slept through the stop at Ul’dah and all the way back to Gridania. Looking back up to the attendant “So much time lost, thank you for waking me†handing what he had left to the attendant for a tip.
As soon as he arrived at his room in The Roost, he took off his traveling gear and sat down thinking
“Silence, Silence, Silenceâ€
With the word pounding at his head, he gathered a pen and piece of parchment and just let his mind wonder on the word as he drew a symbol on the paper, it was three consecutive slashes. He quickly looked back at his tome to the page where they had discovered Silence, on the page was a geograph that incorporated the three slashes. The symbol before him had the three slashes with two horizontal lines near the bottom, as well as two vertical lines on the outside edges of the slashes. The final two components of this geograph was a dome shape over the entire thing, as well as what he could only describe as a star with and X through it, above the dome.
Quietly in his mind he heard the words “Blessed Soil†coming from Syros. With excitement he now knew part of the geograph infront of him, The dome was the symbol for blessed, the outer walls were for shielding, and the lines below the slashes were soil.
Flipping back through the grimoire to some of the older spells he had been taught, he saw the star appear, however the star then did not have an X through it. He was close but he still did not understand what the word Silence meant and why it rang through his head.
"Silence, Silence, Silence, Silence, Silence"
Gallien began to get a splitting headache, as the bells ran on. Syros eventually began to yawn and get tired, though not wanting to leave his side, she landed on his head to rest for a little while. As she did, a gentle calm came over him, and the words seemed to stop resonating within his head. Gallien stood up with excitement, nearly throwing poor Syros off to the side “An aether induced silence, reinforced through blessed soilâ€
He looked down at the tome one more time, and to his surprise the entire page was legible to him, the words and complete series of geographs all made sense to him now. Frantically and a bit tired, he pulled out one more piece of parchment and began to write.
To Leanne,
I have figured out how to stop the whispers in your head as well as shield your mind from Neruhm voice while in Toto-Rak. However I do regretfully report that due to the nature of the ritual, in all likelihood I will only be able to perform it once before our task is upon us, and will need several suns to recover my aether.
I am currently in Gridania, and would like to get this done within the next few suns. I will be in the Central Shroud near the Lifemended Stump in three suns meet me there. I would prefer no others, as distractions could have disastrous outcomes for both my aether and your mind.
-Gallien Vyese
They could only clearly make out one word “Silenceâ€. With that Gallien finally broke down and passed out.
Quite a few bells had passed while the two had slept, before the airship attendant came and tapped him on his shoulder “We have arrived at Gridania sirâ€. In sheer exhaustion he had slept through the stop at Ul’dah and all the way back to Gridania. Looking back up to the attendant “So much time lost, thank you for waking me†handing what he had left to the attendant for a tip.
As soon as he arrived at his room in The Roost, he took off his traveling gear and sat down thinking
“Silence, Silence, Silenceâ€
With the word pounding at his head, he gathered a pen and piece of parchment and just let his mind wonder on the word as he drew a symbol on the paper, it was three consecutive slashes. He quickly looked back at his tome to the page where they had discovered Silence, on the page was a geograph that incorporated the three slashes. The symbol before him had the three slashes with two horizontal lines near the bottom, as well as two vertical lines on the outside edges of the slashes. The final two components of this geograph was a dome shape over the entire thing, as well as what he could only describe as a star with and X through it, above the dome.
Quietly in his mind he heard the words “Blessed Soil†coming from Syros. With excitement he now knew part of the geograph infront of him, The dome was the symbol for blessed, the outer walls were for shielding, and the lines below the slashes were soil.
Flipping back through the grimoire to some of the older spells he had been taught, he saw the star appear, however the star then did not have an X through it. He was close but he still did not understand what the word Silence meant and why it rang through his head.
"Silence, Silence, Silence, Silence, Silence"
Gallien began to get a splitting headache, as the bells ran on. Syros eventually began to yawn and get tired, though not wanting to leave his side, she landed on his head to rest for a little while. As she did, a gentle calm came over him, and the words seemed to stop resonating within his head. Gallien stood up with excitement, nearly throwing poor Syros off to the side “An aether induced silence, reinforced through blessed soilâ€
He looked down at the tome one more time, and to his surprise the entire page was legible to him, the words and complete series of geographs all made sense to him now. Frantically and a bit tired, he pulled out one more piece of parchment and began to write.
To Leanne,
I have figured out how to stop the whispers in your head as well as shield your mind from Neruhm voice while in Toto-Rak. However I do regretfully report that due to the nature of the ritual, in all likelihood I will only be able to perform it once before our task is upon us, and will need several suns to recover my aether.
I am currently in Gridania, and would like to get this done within the next few suns. I will be in the Central Shroud near the Lifemended Stump in three suns meet me there. I would prefer no others, as distractions could have disastrous outcomes for both my aether and your mind.
-Gallien Vyese