"Look here Namon", Asromanar spoke,"it says that the fourth conjunction of the Solar tides between Drome and Jhang opens the passage to the realm of fire on the plane of the elements".

Namon moved closer and the two Astromancers studied the ancient text intently.

They had found it in the twenty third vault in the section on "Voyages".

For nearly three years Asromanar had been studying to provide theorems to support his assertion to the Dream Council that they could, indeed, relearn the methods their ancestors had used to navigate the planes of the multiverse.

He had the information available. That he knew. It was merely a matter of obtaining the key. Unfortunately, the key was more likely to be hiding in some complicated theories derived from the work of Korak, than in the more accesible information in their copy of Hotan's Omnipedia Planar.

And of course, there was the detail of what one would do once one entered some other plane. There were many texts telling of travellors journeying to the planes. But few with extensive details of what that travel consisted of, in phenomena.

A definite problem.

That, and the brief mention one travellor made of a trip to a parallel planeworld. She said, "The stars do not seem as I know them from my youth.

They have changed, and the whole world gone mad. I am mad, for I am not longer in my home world..."

Not comforting indeed.

Asromanar had no answers for that tale.
And so he would not bring it up to the researchers.

In the days of old, an Astromancer had been necessary to calculate the movements of the energies from one plane to another. And it was upon these tides that a person could travel. Now, the Guild Astromantia was a sad remnant. Less because there were no volunteers to learn the feild, than because their understanding of the material was shallow.

The statement made by that ancient Astromancer... Lyrilia, "As to the Stars, their patterns hold the Fates of Gods and the Destinies of Women",that seemed to indicate that one could know the course of the whole Omniverse in the reading of the stars. The Gods Were present across the whole Omniverse, true?

But then, did she mean the Stars Of Archaeus?

It was all too confusing, and of no immediate import.As he had no way to test this information still.

His students sometimes asked him about astrology. And he had to scoff at them. "Of what use, learning about the likes and dislikes of a Maruk Dung Merchant! The true value of Astromancy lies in its relationship to the theories of Magic. Go sell fortunes to fools, if you don't want to study Korak. But do not trouble me with this childish desire to work with the hearts of men."

He hoped he had been assertive enough. There had been a travelling Dhuna witch at that symposium on the nature of fate, magic, and the coincidences deriving from the Planar Disruption of Archaeus. The Great Disaster she had continued to call it, Hmmph!

Of course her knowledge of the Astro Principia had been quite astute. He worried about that. The Guild of Astromancy could lose some good students because of that.

Asromancer sighed and returned his focus to the text. "I am sorry Namon, there are many things weighing upon my conciousness this day", Asromanar explained.

The Fourth of Drome. He should have known.

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