The Sulierdionne

[Praetor 1550]

((Not availiable to anyone without access to the Mali'aheral library. Putting it here for easier viewing.))

 

The Sulierdionne  (to see/short)

 

Preface

 

Diseases and sickness are a part of our world, it is an undeniable truth. While they certainly have no place in the blessed city of the Mali’Aheral, these pests are rampant in inferior race society. Many are affected by them and many die every year.

 

Of course, at this point the reader might be wondering why we must take an interest in such a thing. As the reader is most certainly pure and of a respectable bloodline I do not doubt that they will understand. The reason of course it to weaponize these diseases, to use them against our enemies and weaken them before they are even able to strike.

 

However, it is at this moment that we run into a severely incapacitating obstacle. The inability to truly study these diseases farther than their symptoms. While the Mali’Aheral have analyzed many of these diseases and studied their effects, we know little of their true composition, what they resemble and how they react to different stimuli.

 

However, I believe this will change soon. For an idea struck me in the night while I stood at my window gazing at the stars. So far away, so distant! Yet that does not stop us from studying them with telescopes, as the inferiors call them. What is stopping us, the most intelligent race upon the continent, from studying the infinitely small? To that I respond, absolutely nothing.

 

The Creation Process

 

Lest this book fall into the filthy hands of an impure or otherwise inferior creature, I shall remain vague. This tool will be a most important one in the technological and scientific advances of our race and must be kept within our walls, secure and hidden.

 

The sullierdionne was created through a trial and error process and the analysis of a telescope. Once I had acquired one of these, much time was spent experimenting to change the inflection of the lenses to achieve a more detailed magnification.

 

Once this was achieved, the proper lenses were recreated and the true experimentation began.

 

Model Oem:

Basic telescope aiming downwards upon a small piece of bark. Magnification was blurry with few details. While inspecting the element I could see very little more than a large brown blurr.

 

I concluded that I needed a more precise magnification and the lenses required greater inflexion, there was little difference between the backdrop and the element as well. Further thought was necessary.

 

Model Niut:

Inflexion of the lenses changed, image sharper yet I was still unable to distinguish the element from the backdrop, even when replacing the basic grey piece of stone by white quartz.

 

Model Hael:

Found a solution to distinguish the backdrop from the element. A small redstone powered lamp now lies beneath a glass backdrop. Testing however, proved that it put unwanted strain on the eye and that damage of the ocular globe was possible. However, was able to distinguish the object better. To truly analyze the structure, I believe it is necessary to use very thin slices of material, so the light may shine through.

 

Model Vailu:

Main objective of this model was to reduce the blinding effect of the light. Minor experiments were led before the final model. A solution was discovered, quite simple in reality. The lamp was moved away and it now not directly beneath the backdrop. Instead, a small angled mirror reflects it upwards through grey tinted glass. This glass reduces the lamps effects and allows the researches to use the sullierdionne for extended periods of time with minor eyestrain.

 

Model Kulin:

By this time, I believed that I had almost reached a perfect model. This was not far from the truth. However, the magnification was still rather deplorable. In a fit of most shameful frustration I decided to simply pile lenses up and see if that increased the effectiveness. Much to my surprise it did. Yet, too many close together seems to lower the quality of the magnification, blurring it.

 

Model Banih:

To facilitate work and include as many lenses as possible, I have angled the first set of lenses. Following this set is an angled mirror, followed by a second set of lenses. With this, I was able to study a thin slice of pork in detail. I believe that this will be a most excellent tool for the Mali’Aheral.

 

I shall conclude by saying this; with the proper amount of time spent studying disease, I believe we will be able to truly understand them, perhaps even one day we shall change them into a desired form. These goals are far away and surely there will be many years between that time and now. But time has little meaning for those who live such long lives as us. I will live to see this next step forward, perhaps I shall be remembered as the precursor.

 

Vellulaei'thill Vul'athri

                                     Maehr'sae Hiylun'ehya, Mali'aheral     

[Glyc 234]

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