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Well, that is depressing, but of course it would be.

He skims through the latter entries to see if he can find a mention of whatever plan they are enacting.

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The last hundred entries don't seem to mention it.

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What do they mention?

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Plans for getting enough mana and then getting it from various sources—mostly something called "elden"—and reports about death tolls and this province being subsumed and that victory and this strategic retreat...

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Any clarifications on what "elden" is?

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Nope.

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When's the earliest reference to this elden?

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There are references to this elden as far back as he cares to look.

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And no explanations at all to its nature? ...Does it look like it was suspiciously left out? Or maybe edited? Actually are there bits that look like that? Or other things that are most commonly mentioned?

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It looks like the writer just thought it was taken for granted, it doesn't look any more suspicious than the use of the word "vase." There are, however, thirty-seven years of daily updates, Felix will not be able to read them all in a timely manner or find anything if his strategy is going one by one.

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Okay... does this thing have a search function? Maybe he can create a timeline here.

He makes a list of important search words (mentions of other countries, the other continents, wars, magic, ...gods.)

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It does have a search function, it turns out!

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Okay, are there mentions of the countries on the south continent?

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What are his search terms, exactly?

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Let's start with the names of the four south gods?

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Nowhere.

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Are the girls making any progress?

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Hard to say, with all the staring.

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Well, he is not going to solve all of this in one sitting, but he might as well start.

He tries the keywords: king, president, dictator, country, war, soldier, general, attack, battle, invasion, ambush...

What do the first three get him?

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The king doesn't really concern himself with that so she gets pretty much free reign and, well, I understand he has to disagree l delegate but really.


I have a meeting with the king in two days, apparently, so that's nice. Hopefully I'll get somewhere with him where Sannha failed.


Heavens help us all, they actually killed King Mako, we are fucked.


President Vinnik has been reelected, so another six years dealing with that pest. Joy of joys.


The president is calling an emergency meeting, Vinnik and Sannha and Mako and Bebia are all going and I wasn't technically invited but Bebia wants me anyway.


I was perhaps mistaken about the president.


The word "dictator" doesn't appear.

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Felix makes notes.

If he tries "country", "war", "soldier"?

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They don't yet have anything we'd properly call a 'country' and honestly it's hard enough to get there, I'm not sure anyone should bother.


Their country never did get over the incident with the empire-princess fifteen years ago, it's as hard to interact with them as with people in the south.

Those are the only entries with the word 'country' in them.


 We got reports that Liton won the war against Yiik and are assimilating. Our foreign affairs people—read, me—are kinda worried about that. Does not bode well for relationships with Haagghu.


Some people are muttering uneasily about a preemptive war with Liton, and by 'some people' I mean 'Atana.' Atana just really wants to punch someone and it's getting grating. One would think that confirming that the sightings in Malaod were a false alarm would calm him down some but noooooo.


...so today Malaod declared war. I should probably apologise to Atana and send my Larinadan counterpart a message.


Nothing about soldiers.

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"General", "attack", "battle"?

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General is absent.


Atana thinks we should mobilise and prepare for an attack, perhaps even actually prepare an attack. Strike first and all that. Much too premature, if you should ask my opinion, and thankfully my opinion on these matters is in fact often asked.


Yiik attacked Liton last night and it turned out—not well for them. Way things are going they'll lose, badly, and I'm not sure how that'll affect the power equilibrium of the region.


There was another attack, more desperate than the last one. They'll probably surrender soon.


Battle is also absent.

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"Invasion", "Ambush," "Mako" and "Vinnik"?

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