Post by Lavita on Sept 18, 2004 13:55:13 GMT -1
The Translations of the Stravagante
Although considered by its practitioners as a 'noble art', Stravagantation is also extremely dangerous and a number of its scientist have experienced the deepest consequences of it, paying a price higher than all the gold in Talia...
William Dethridge>> Guglielmo Crinamorte
The process is named by the first known person to endure it, the discoverer of Stravagantation. Dottore Guglielmo Crinamorte, otherwise known as the Elizabethan Alchemist, William Dethridge.
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, Dethridge participated in the most famous and competitive of Alchemy races: the quest to turn lead into gold. During a daring experiment in 1552, the chemical compounds became too unstable and as a result Dethridge's laboratory was blown up, rendering him unconscious.
When Dethridge came to, the alchemy bowl he clutched contained the very element that he had so longed to create: Gold. He had done it. Amidst his jubilance, Dethridge focused on his surroundings, surprised to find himself not in the wreck of his laboratory but in a beautiful city of silver, inhabited by folk of a culture different to his own, a place called Bellona.
As more was revealed to him of this wondrous place, Dethridge fell into a slumber, clutching tight to the alchemy bowl, afraid his momentous discovery would be stolen. And when he woke again, he was home, and left with the speculation whether it was all a delusional dream. To his great dismay the bowl before him again held plain lead without a single glimmer of gold.
A determined scientist, Dethridge could not dismiss the wondrous city as a mere dream and endeavoured to return there, for he had done it once already, had he not? His fixated experiments led him to discover that he must fall unconscious whilst holding the bowl...and only then would he awaken in this dream-like city of his. And again, the lead became gold.
Given his discovery of 'Talia' the equivalent country to what he knew as Italy, Dethridge devoted himself to this parallel. Aside from the necessary contact with the 'talisman' for Stravagantation, Dethridge also noted that night in Elizabethan England signified day in Talia and that because his existence was tied to England, in Talia he bore no shadow. So during his slumber, Dethridge lived in Talia.
Elizabethans are folk well known for their beliefs, especially concerning the practice of 'witchcraft'. They believed it to be a manifestation of dark evil in their country and women were often accused of practicing it and burned at the stake. Unknown to himself, Dethridge's physical body in England entered a comatose state whenever he travelled to Talia, meaning his life-signs were almost non-existent. Upon waking inside his own coffin William Dethridge was accused of 'witchcraft' and therefore condemned to the consequences of it. Fearing for his life, the Elizabethan left behind his home, wife and children and fled to Talia. And after some time, Dethridge felt a momentous jolt pass through his form, forcing his shadow out upon the sun-brightened cobbles before him.
Realising his body in England had finally died, Dethridge became Dottore Guglielmo Crinamorte, a Talian in body and spirit, and an Elizabethan only in memory.
William Dethridge vanished from English records in 1575
Lucien Mulholland>> Luciano Crinamorte
Lucien, the only child of Victoria and David Mulholland, was fifteen when he fell terminally ill with cancer. Months of intensive treatment rid him of both his hair and his energy, leaving him bedridden as 21st Century technology fought to save his life.
Until, by a twist of fate, Lucien's father gave him a notebook with a rich marble cover. David also told his son about a sinking city in Italy called Venice...
Lucien, lulled to sleep by the city, woke to find the morning sunlight shining on an unfamiliar landscape. Behind him was an immense cathedral with a model of three rams in front of it. Strangely enough, the more he took in, the more this place seemed like Venice. He was still taking stock of his surroundings when a figure hurtled into him, knocking him down a side street.
The figure was a girl his own age named Arianna Gasparini who had spent the long winter months cooking up a plan to obtain a place in the Scuola Mandolier. Conceding he was mad, the girl Arianna told Lucien of the 16th Century city named Bellezza, the sovereign known as a Duchessa and beastly customs of a history reaching back centuries.
It was on his second incidental coming to Bellezza that Lucien found himself in front of a powerful scientist, Senator Rodolfo Rossi who recognised him for what he was immediately and took the boy on as his apprentice, teaching him the science of the Stravagante...
As an ally comes into the story so does an enemy in the form of Rinaldo de Chimici, a very dangerous man fighting to snatch Bellezza from the Duchessa. As Lucien is taught to pass as a convincing Talian named Luciano, the De Chimici's spy dogs his trail, hungering for the secret of this 'Stravaganti' magic.
During a drunken revelling, Lucien is snatched off the street and deposited into the Di Chimici's claws. His notebook talisman is taken from him, meaning he can't return home, and the longer he was in Talia, the more his body deteriorates in England.
As events come to a head Lucien, having been in Talia constantly for two days now, feels a sudden weight press down on him and then sees something he has never seen before in Talia; his own shadow, stretched out on the ground before him.
Realising the boy shared a similar fate to his own, William Dethridge, who has lived for two years in Talia under the name Guglielmo Crinamorte, offers himself as foster-father. And so Lucien Mulholland became Luciano Crinamorte, a 16th Century Talian with the memories of a future time.
Falco Di Chimici>> Nicholas Duke
The youngest son of Duke Niccolo, Falco was eleven when a riding accident shattered his leg, rendering him unable to walk without aid. With his disability, Falco's future in the Di Chimici family was limited to the succession of Pope. Such a consequence left Falco depressed.
Until, when listening to the music of the Manoush with his brother Gaetano, he made the acquaintance of one Luciano Crinamorte and Giorgio Gredi, both Stravagantes.
Hearing of the magical technology of the 21st Century England, Luciano's old world, Falco wanted desperately to 'translate'. With the help of Luciano and Georgia, the most recent Stravagante, Falco gave up everything in Talia and became Nicholas Duke. Incidentally enough, his foster parents were David and Vicky Mulholland, Lucien's parents.
As the hype for the Stellata grew, Falco's body in Talia began to die and without 21st Century machines to keep him alive his body slowly deteriorated. Upon Falco's death, his father Duke Niccolo, the uncle of Rinaldo Di Chimici, swore vengeance on the Stravaganti whose 'witchcraft' had robbed him of his son.
A year past in the 21st Century world: a year of revolutionary treatment for Falco/ Nicholas. Using his new talisman (a feather from the winged horse, Merla) he and Georgia returned to Talia where only a month had passed and Remora was hosting a second Stellata; this time in remembrance of the dead Falco Di Chimici.
To mark the event, the older Falco climbed atop of Merla and flew her along the track, wearing all the flags of the Twelfths. He paused in the air in front of his father, throwing the colours of the Lady for him to catch. And Duke Niccolo saw his son cured and strong and the secret or the Stravaganti irked him more than ever...
Although considered by its practitioners as a 'noble art', Stravagantation is also extremely dangerous and a number of its scientist have experienced the deepest consequences of it, paying a price higher than all the gold in Talia...
William Dethridge>> Guglielmo Crinamorte
The process is named by the first known person to endure it, the discoverer of Stravagantation. Dottore Guglielmo Crinamorte, otherwise known as the Elizabethan Alchemist, William Dethridge.
During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, Dethridge participated in the most famous and competitive of Alchemy races: the quest to turn lead into gold. During a daring experiment in 1552, the chemical compounds became too unstable and as a result Dethridge's laboratory was blown up, rendering him unconscious.
When Dethridge came to, the alchemy bowl he clutched contained the very element that he had so longed to create: Gold. He had done it. Amidst his jubilance, Dethridge focused on his surroundings, surprised to find himself not in the wreck of his laboratory but in a beautiful city of silver, inhabited by folk of a culture different to his own, a place called Bellona.
As more was revealed to him of this wondrous place, Dethridge fell into a slumber, clutching tight to the alchemy bowl, afraid his momentous discovery would be stolen. And when he woke again, he was home, and left with the speculation whether it was all a delusional dream. To his great dismay the bowl before him again held plain lead without a single glimmer of gold.
A determined scientist, Dethridge could not dismiss the wondrous city as a mere dream and endeavoured to return there, for he had done it once already, had he not? His fixated experiments led him to discover that he must fall unconscious whilst holding the bowl...and only then would he awaken in this dream-like city of his. And again, the lead became gold.
Given his discovery of 'Talia' the equivalent country to what he knew as Italy, Dethridge devoted himself to this parallel. Aside from the necessary contact with the 'talisman' for Stravagantation, Dethridge also noted that night in Elizabethan England signified day in Talia and that because his existence was tied to England, in Talia he bore no shadow. So during his slumber, Dethridge lived in Talia.
Elizabethans are folk well known for their beliefs, especially concerning the practice of 'witchcraft'. They believed it to be a manifestation of dark evil in their country and women were often accused of practicing it and burned at the stake. Unknown to himself, Dethridge's physical body in England entered a comatose state whenever he travelled to Talia, meaning his life-signs were almost non-existent. Upon waking inside his own coffin William Dethridge was accused of 'witchcraft' and therefore condemned to the consequences of it. Fearing for his life, the Elizabethan left behind his home, wife and children and fled to Talia. And after some time, Dethridge felt a momentous jolt pass through his form, forcing his shadow out upon the sun-brightened cobbles before him.
Realising his body in England had finally died, Dethridge became Dottore Guglielmo Crinamorte, a Talian in body and spirit, and an Elizabethan only in memory.
William Dethridge vanished from English records in 1575
Lucien Mulholland>> Luciano Crinamorte
Lucien, the only child of Victoria and David Mulholland, was fifteen when he fell terminally ill with cancer. Months of intensive treatment rid him of both his hair and his energy, leaving him bedridden as 21st Century technology fought to save his life.
Until, by a twist of fate, Lucien's father gave him a notebook with a rich marble cover. David also told his son about a sinking city in Italy called Venice...
Lucien, lulled to sleep by the city, woke to find the morning sunlight shining on an unfamiliar landscape. Behind him was an immense cathedral with a model of three rams in front of it. Strangely enough, the more he took in, the more this place seemed like Venice. He was still taking stock of his surroundings when a figure hurtled into him, knocking him down a side street.
The figure was a girl his own age named Arianna Gasparini who had spent the long winter months cooking up a plan to obtain a place in the Scuola Mandolier. Conceding he was mad, the girl Arianna told Lucien of the 16th Century city named Bellezza, the sovereign known as a Duchessa and beastly customs of a history reaching back centuries.
It was on his second incidental coming to Bellezza that Lucien found himself in front of a powerful scientist, Senator Rodolfo Rossi who recognised him for what he was immediately and took the boy on as his apprentice, teaching him the science of the Stravagante...
As an ally comes into the story so does an enemy in the form of Rinaldo de Chimici, a very dangerous man fighting to snatch Bellezza from the Duchessa. As Lucien is taught to pass as a convincing Talian named Luciano, the De Chimici's spy dogs his trail, hungering for the secret of this 'Stravaganti' magic.
During a drunken revelling, Lucien is snatched off the street and deposited into the Di Chimici's claws. His notebook talisman is taken from him, meaning he can't return home, and the longer he was in Talia, the more his body deteriorates in England.
As events come to a head Lucien, having been in Talia constantly for two days now, feels a sudden weight press down on him and then sees something he has never seen before in Talia; his own shadow, stretched out on the ground before him.
Realising the boy shared a similar fate to his own, William Dethridge, who has lived for two years in Talia under the name Guglielmo Crinamorte, offers himself as foster-father. And so Lucien Mulholland became Luciano Crinamorte, a 16th Century Talian with the memories of a future time.
Falco Di Chimici>> Nicholas Duke
The youngest son of Duke Niccolo, Falco was eleven when a riding accident shattered his leg, rendering him unable to walk without aid. With his disability, Falco's future in the Di Chimici family was limited to the succession of Pope. Such a consequence left Falco depressed.
Until, when listening to the music of the Manoush with his brother Gaetano, he made the acquaintance of one Luciano Crinamorte and Giorgio Gredi, both Stravagantes.
Hearing of the magical technology of the 21st Century England, Luciano's old world, Falco wanted desperately to 'translate'. With the help of Luciano and Georgia, the most recent Stravagante, Falco gave up everything in Talia and became Nicholas Duke. Incidentally enough, his foster parents were David and Vicky Mulholland, Lucien's parents.
As the hype for the Stellata grew, Falco's body in Talia began to die and without 21st Century machines to keep him alive his body slowly deteriorated. Upon Falco's death, his father Duke Niccolo, the uncle of Rinaldo Di Chimici, swore vengeance on the Stravaganti whose 'witchcraft' had robbed him of his son.
A year past in the 21st Century world: a year of revolutionary treatment for Falco/ Nicholas. Using his new talisman (a feather from the winged horse, Merla) he and Georgia returned to Talia where only a month had passed and Remora was hosting a second Stellata; this time in remembrance of the dead Falco Di Chimici.
To mark the event, the older Falco climbed atop of Merla and flew her along the track, wearing all the flags of the Twelfths. He paused in the air in front of his father, throwing the colours of the Lady for him to catch. And Duke Niccolo saw his son cured and strong and the secret or the Stravaganti irked him more than ever...
