Who: wanda and others When: april & may Where: solvunn, horizon What: catch-all for the month, closed and open prompts within. Warnings: none at the moment, will mark as needed.
[She's more right than she knows. It doesn't matter to Altaïr that there is surely as much to learn right here in Abraxas as there was from the piece of Eden — maybe more. It is still a beguiling mystery even out of his reach, a power that compels as much as it horrifies.]
It was hidden within the Temple Mount of Jerusalem when I first laid eyes on it. But I don't believe that was its origin.
[He doesn't think he could guess at any origin. Something about the Apple made him very sure that it had little to do with any society that touched his lifetime.]
I think it was made very far away, a very, very long time ago.
Oh, Jerusalem. I know where that is — more or less. [now, that’s a name she does recognize.] Though I’m not sure such a thing was ever uncovered in the world that I come from.
[they’d hear about it, certainly? even if vaguely, if generally; something that was made far away, and a very, very long time ago? hm.]
Are you a treasure hunter, then?
[not quite what he described, but this is maybe a mystery she can get more concrete answers to.]
[That gets a small smile, although there's a distance in his eyes. The amusement of characterizing his work like that doesn't take away from the sourness of betrayal from the one who'd sesnt them after the treasure.]
We were there to retrieve it and keep it from the hands of our enemies. I had no personal interest in it.
[hm— a man of many mysteries, then. as much as her curiosity sparks a sense of wanting to just fuck the rules, wanda doesn't want to outright just read anyone's mind to get information from them. much less a friend's mind.
she tilts her head, then smiles lightly in return.]
Except now that you're really curious about what it was, huh.
[He takes a long moment before responding, and that's as much an answer as anything he says.]
It corrupted someone I would have told you embodied the best of our people's ideals. I would like to know how that was possible as much as I would like to avoid it falling into the hands of those who would use it with ill intent.
[And he knows very well that someone who uses the Apple that way might have started with very different intentions.]
Maybe knowledge uncovered in this place can help put the pieces of that puzzle together.
[though wanda knows that it’s not entirely the best case scenario, it’s at least something that could be held onto to satiate that want for knowledge.]
Do you think the men who asked you to get it knew about what it could do?
[Altaïr doubts that's possible...and is glad for it. He may not know much about the Apple, but he's instinctively certain that it would be a very bad thing for its power to be unleashed in Abraxas.]
He knew something of what it could do.
[Otherwise Al Mualim would not have been so insistent that they take it from the Templars. Already he hadn't trusted his fellow conspirators.]
Whether he knew would it could do to him, I can't say.
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It was hidden within the Temple Mount of Jerusalem when I first laid eyes on it. But I don't believe that was its origin.
[He doesn't think he could guess at any origin. Something about the Apple made him very sure that it had little to do with any society that touched his lifetime.]
I think it was made very far away, a very, very long time ago.
[ooc - agreed! no worries re delays]
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Oh, Jerusalem. I know where that is — more or less. [now, that’s a name she does recognize.] Though I’m not sure such a thing was ever uncovered in the world that I come from.
[they’d hear about it, certainly? even if vaguely, if generally; something that was made far away, and a very, very long time ago? hm.]
Are you a treasure hunter, then?
[not quite what he described, but this is maybe a mystery she can get more concrete answers to.]
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[That gets a small smile, although there's a distance in his eyes. The amusement of characterizing his work like that doesn't take away from the sourness of betrayal from the one who'd sesnt them after the treasure.]
We were there to retrieve it and keep it from the hands of our enemies. I had no personal interest in it.
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she tilts her head, then smiles lightly in return.]
Except now that you're really curious about what it was, huh.
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It corrupted someone I would have told you embodied the best of our people's ideals. I would like to know how that was possible as much as I would like to avoid it falling into the hands of those who would use it with ill intent.
[And he knows very well that someone who uses the Apple that way might have started with very different intentions.]
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[though wanda knows that it’s not entirely the best case scenario, it’s at least something that could be held onto to satiate that want for knowledge.]
Do you think the men who asked you to get it knew about what it could do?
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He knew something of what it could do.
[Otherwise Al Mualim would not have been so insistent that they take it from the Templars. Already he hadn't trusted his fellow conspirators.]
Whether he knew would it could do to him, I can't say.