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 Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:43 pm
Kara watched Aragost with interest as she made her way over to Lin. It was nice in here, at least there was a light, though somehow she had a feeling this was a place that didn't get to see light that often. Picking up her little girl, Kara took a seat on the chair.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:47 pm
Okay, that was creepy, Celebor decided, righting to keep his surprise from showing.
He nodded and set his bag down, then pulled out his bow and set it down on the table so that everyone could see.
"Sir Valdemar put runes on my bow," he explained, looking up at Aragost, "but he said that they would only work in Arda. He could not explain why, and said that I should ask you, and that one of Lin's questions would be answered at the same time."
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:58 pm
Aragost looked at the bow intently for several long, silent moments, then glanced sideways at Lin.
"And your question," he murmured, "why Sir Valdemar can only create magic in the original language."
Indeed, that was an interesting question. A dark hand appeared from the folds of the billowing cloak and reached into the recesses of the cowl, and a sigh escaped. "This ... is going to be a lengthy explanation ..."
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:07 pm
Lin grinned up at Aragost from where she sat on her mother's lap. He was right, as usual, somehow there was no surprise in that and it would be very silly if there was any surprise in all in a statement like that.
"That's okay," she told Aragost.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:10 pm
Kara couldn't help but keep looking at the bow, looking at the runes up and down. They were such pretty runes too, she couldn't help but think to herself. She had to admit, she was quite interested herself to the reason why.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:12 pm
Celebor nodded and stood against the wall so that he could lean for support if the explanation did indeed get too long.
"Whenever you're ready," he murmured.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:29 pm
Aragost nodded and lowered his hand once more, lowering his head slightly as if deep in thought. For several moments more there was complete and utter silence, then he began to murmur softly in the ancient tongue. The candles in the room flickered and went out, leaving them all in a darkness so complete that it was impossible to see anything.
A moment later, his voice resonated through the blackness.
"This ... was once our world ... nothing ... but a void ..."
A light appeared in one corner - but it was no longer the corner of the room, it was far away, an impossibly long distance, much like the book that Sir Valdemar had shown Lin but without the book.
In the middle of the everyone there appeared a white form, much taller than even Elros, taller than the room, so white that it glowed. No features were distinguishable save that after a moment of stillness it knelt to one knee and bowed its head reverently to the far-off light, and almost immediately the figure was surrounded by hundreds of others just like it. A moment later, a song rose around them, a harmony of voices too low to understand their words.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:34 pm
It reminded Lin very much of what she first saw, but she couldn't recall ever seeing that figure or all those people singing. If she could recall, she never saw anyone singing, and at the time had tried to look and see who it was. Now she couldn't understand how she could have missed them, they were so tall and so white that it would be hard to miss them.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:04 pm
As if the four of them were moving, the light grew even more distant, and the white figures faded away, branching off into two different groups. Meanshile, the sound around them grew, but it sounded more like music than voices - and suddenly the world appeared, a speck in the darkness, and a small group of the white figures descended to it.
"The Valar," Aragost pronounced reverently, "and the creation of our world."
And suddenly all of it disappeared, and they were back in his quarters, candles burning brightly as if nothing had changed.
"I do not know how your world was created ..."
He glanced towards Lin.
"Either of your worlds ... but our world ... was created through song ... the song of the Valar ... those of the Ainur who descended to Arda in order to give it life ... and us ... as such ... our world was created by words ..."
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:27 pm
Lin wasn't sure how Gaia was created, but there were a lot of stories about creation from Gaia. Besides, there were so many gods/goddesses/creators who had their fingers in the creation of the races that it would be hard to go through them all. Though she had to wonder if the twin goddessess made their world like the way one would make a vase.
Still it gave her something more to think about, created by words. It sort of made sense as soon as she really thought about it.
"Oh...." it also occured to her that what she saw in the book was the world being created from the world's point of view. If a world had a point of view.
As she was muddling this through with her mind, absently her mind wondered what did Aragost not know.
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:35 pm
Aragost nodded and stepped towards the table, running his fingers along the runes of the bow.
"The world was created ... using the language of the Valar," he murmured softly, "and as such ... our world ... is language itself. Words. Because of this ... all magic in this world is simply the use of that language."
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:38 pm
Celebor stared at Aragost for a moment, his face impassive; but then his brow furrowed and he folded his arms across his chest.
"I'm not sure I get it," he commented. "In the Seconds World we're taught spells to use magic, sure, but ... people have different spells and can't use the spells of another. And we're limited in what we can learn. Are you telling me that it's possible to do anything in your language? Or that we're standing on words?"
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:42 pm
Lin hadn't really thought of it that way, but then again she didn't know how spells worked in the Second World. She.. had never bothered to learn magic yet, even though she could, but she most would rather learn from her mommy rather than the other way. She also wasn't sure if it would take energy or not.
"I don't think that was literal...."
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:02 pm
A soft chuckle emitted from the depths of Aragost's hood.
"On the contrary, Lin," he murmured, amusement in his tone, "I was being quite literal indeed. Words are not physical, they are audio - and so what we see, what we feel, what this world IS ... is a physical manifestation of words."
He lifted one hand, holding it out in front of himself, palm upwards. "Watch."
He began to sing softly, audibly this time, in the ancient tongue, and the air above his palm shimmered and became a flower. He stopped singing and held it out to Lin.
"Take it," he murmured, his tone reassuring. "You will find that it is ... solid ... and alive."
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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:08 pm
She couldn't help it, she was curious and so she did as he said. Her fingers brushed against the cool smooth stem as she took it from him. It was bright with life and she could smell the soft fragrance from it. It was as real as any of Earendil's flowers, only as he had said it was alive.
"But... there has to be a limit right?" Lin asked.
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