<!-- Google tag (gtag.js) --> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-G26W6267FY"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-G26W6267FY'); </script> **[Home Page](Home%20Page.md) / [Verum](Verum.md) / [Aelenclast](Aelenclast.md) / [Aelenclast Transcripts](Aelenclast%20Transcripts.md)** # Dr. Gellen Forza's Journal This journal was found by [Jan Smoth](Jan%20Smoth.md), and given to the members of [The Honored Shadows](The%20Honored%20Shadows.md) in Episode 1. It seems to have been the personal journal to a Dr. Gellen Forza, who was seemingly aboard [The Black Lion](The%20Black%20Lion.md) when it arrived on [Aelenclast](Aelenclast.md). ## Transcript >***" The Personal Journal of Dr. Gellen Forza."*** > >*"I've decided to keep this journal as a recording of my own thoughts, and indeed as to act as a sort of preamble for my research.* > >*I have long since been a diviner at the Mage's guild in [Majital](Majital.md) for quite some time, specifically a part of the Carnate (?) Chapter, as my father's father's father was a part of the original treaties. I was allowed, of course, to gain access to their archives and indeed begin my schooling at a young age. I only say this as it is important for you, the reader, to note, that my upbringing was not one of ease, and it is through this, this understanding of history, that my research was first furtively seated.* > >*Eventually, I would graduate from my studies in divination and become a diviner for the official Mage's Guild. It was then that the sky opened and the scar appeared across the sky and then I, Dr. Gellen Forza, along with my colleagues, did aid what we could. The battle was definitely one of the worst times of my life. The uncertainty, something that I found most distressing. However, with perhaps not victory, but at least peace on the horizon, the discoveries of Steam, and all of these sufficient things within my lifetime, makes one wonder about how could we prepare better.* > >*My role as a diviner has oftentimes led me to believe the question of what is to come, but I will also ask more so the question of what is to be. And when [Daniel Khazor](Daniel%20Khazor.md), the hero of the Sky-scar Wars himself, asked my retinue to attempt to divine a place, a place of magic that we might utilize against our shared and common enemy, I took to it with such gusto.* > >*Little did I know, that it would be my team and I's discoveries that would lead to the expedition to [Aelenclast](Aelenclast.md) to even be considered. Long since have we known of the continent, its wild and wayward magics, making it difficult, of course, to pierce any veil. But with the induction of Steam into our research, and a cranial device of my own make, my team and I were able to pierce the veil of magic holding Aelenclast's secret away from our magical sight. It is through this, for a few weeks, in fact, that my team and I had first began to divulge the secrets of Aelenclast, the movements of the regions, the energy signatures of the weather, the shifting and changing face that the continent constantly adorns. It would be difficult to approach the continent, but we were able to find a path through the reefs.* > >*However, there is one place that fascinates me. One place that my team and I have began to call [[The Drifts]], a small island chain just outside of the main continent's main mass. This island chain, called The Drifts by my team, not because of their placement in the water. No, for a phenomenon that we can only begin to explain and understand, one that I'm sure would put [Raquel](Raquel.md) herself into conniptions.* > >*The Drifts is in reference to the chronological malady that seems to have infected the islands. Each of the different islands move through time at a different speed and direction, sometimes forward, sometimes backwards, and constantly twisting in and out of what we have come to be known as our standardized time. These islands are a mystery unlike any other in my opinion. For if we were able to master the power of time, then our enemies, well, they would be nothing. For what could they do?* > >*And so, my team and I have set about making preparations. We are to be upon the first vessels leading towards the mighty [Aelenclast](Aelenclast.md). We have put ourselves upon [Captain Dance's](Captain%20Dance.md) vessel, [The Black Lion](The%20Black%20Lion.md). Many speak of her in controversial terms as being reckless, and her plans to arrive first on the on the continent would only serve our purposes better. We must ensure that nefarious hands do not grasp The Drifts first, and if it cannot be controlled, then parameters to ensure the safety of those that would come after us might be maintained.* > >*It is my hope that we may also be able to use the phonetics discovered on the strange ruins found throughout Aelenclast to perhaps develop the language of the ancient peoples there. It is not clear if any of the races have survived, but it is clear that their culture has. And who knows, perhaps within their languages, perhaps within their culture and history, we may be able to uncover the secret of the Drifts. In either case, it is my pristine hope that I and my co-"* . The journal cuts off at this point.