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| Author: | Mishell |
| Summary: | Several large vases of flowers arrive at Paluuva's most frequent inscription workspace with a letter. Part of the "Exes and Woes" chain. |
| Rating: | T for Teen |
Chain: Exes and Woes
Six large vases arrive at the workspace where Paluuva most commonly mixes her inks for inscription. They contain golden sansam and dreamfoil in elegantly balanced arrangements that are surprisingly aesthetically pleasing given the attached note. Two of the vases are labeled 'Aszhara,' two 'Felwood,' and two 'Hellfire Peninsula.'
Paluuva,
Details on my latest experiment follow, along with live specimens should you wish to attempt to replicate my results.
My hypothesis, generated from anecdotal evidence from certain warlock scribes regarding plants gathered in Felwood, was that pigments milled from specimens undergoing fel corruption would create inks more suitable for use in creating glyphs to augment fel magic. (My ongoing quest has been to ensure that your supplies are of the highest possible potency, ensuring an advantage for you in what I understand can be a competitive marketplace.)
My first test used several specimens that grow both in Aszhara and Felwood - the two areas chosen for ease of travel between - and while there were statistically significant increases in warlock glyph potency for most of the Felwood samples as compared to the Azshara samples, the most notable differences, approaching an astonishing five per cent, were inks milled from the specimens of dreamfoil and golden sansam. For this reason, I isolated these two species for use in the second phase of my experiment.
For this phase, I traveled to the former Tanaan Jungle. Do you remember the orchids that used to Tanaan Jungle, now colloquially known as "Hellfire Peninsula," as this area has experienced extremes of fel corruption, and seeds from Azerothian dreamfoil and golden sansam have also somehow traveled across the portal to take root there in certain areas. The results below will speak for themselves: clearly fel corruption is not the only vector in the success of the various Felwood subspecies, as the Hellfire varieties showed, on average, eight percent less potency than the uncorrupted Azshara samples.
Or it may be that fel corruption does enhance ink's use in fel magic, but in the case of the Hellfire samples, that enhancement is not sufficient. Because of the intensity of the trauma they undergo on a daily basis - some awareness of being on the wrong world, to say nothing of the constant bombardment of hostility from their new environment - there may be some structural weakness in the Hellfire varieties, something not visible to the naked eye, that detracts severely from any benefit the fel corruption itself may provide.
My full results are below, rounded to the second decimal point, and the samples should provide ample opportunity to repeat the experiment and verify the soundness of my figures.
Many, many rows and columns of figures follow.