:Anyway. Both of us should be in the same place, so I don't know that it matters very much unless we posit that something even more interesting happens to one of us tomorrow. ...In which case Savil isn't wrong that it's more likely to be me: 

In that case he will focus on Savil, and cast Minor Prophecy.

The vision does not show Savil in the Heartstone room at all, actually! 

She seems to be in Leareth's facility in the north, actually. (They're clearly underground, the room carved out from stone rather than built of stone like Valdemar's Work Rooms, and the stonework feels indefinably newer and distinct in style.) The room she's in has a standalone archway, and there's a Gate raised on it, though Savil doesn't seem to be the one casting it. The other side has a blurred view of what looks like a half-collapsed building. 

"Hurry," she's saying to someone next to her - not Vanyel, probably one of Leareth's people, "there's still a Heartstone there - maybe unstable, with Haven's down -" She looks like she desperately wants to rush through the Gate and is barely holding herself back. 

A knot of people are crossing back from the other side; there's an older couple first, a man with a scarred face and a woman who's probably in her early fifties clinging to him; they're both covered in dust and look a little banged up, but not seriously injured. 

They're followed by a tawny-haired young man, dazed-looking and limping, but still trying to half-carry a semiconscious young woman, with the help of another unfamiliar older woman. The young woman is familiar; she was the one in the earlier prophecy cast on Brightstar, with the odd patterned hair and Tayledras features. Half her face is covered in blood. 

Savil rushes in to help catch the young woman before the man collapses and ease her to the floor. "- We need Blai -" 

There's some confusion and people rushing around and maybe some conversation in Mindspeech, then a Gate and a Blai appears. 

There's - something, a sense of confusing magic though nothing is exploding or anything, Blai is on the floor now and it's sort of deeply unclear what happened - 

Well that's concerning!! Was everybody watching or does Blai have to try to verbalize it?

Seldan at least was watching closely and is already fixing it in his memory, though he has no idea who any of those people are or context on why there's apparently ANOTHER Heartstone somewhere ELSE. 

It's pretty concerning! 

:Highjorune: Vanyel guesses. :I recognized Tashir and Featherfire for sure - and I think the other couple were Jervis and Melenna - not sure about the woman. I - we should have thought of that, Highjorune has a very old Heartstone - dates back to well before it was part of Valdemar, we think the Tayledras left it behind centuries ago when the Pelagirs cleared that area. We can't shut it down, it's tied to a spell preventing a major earthquake.: 

:I...think...this at least implies that shutting down the Haven Heartstone worked, and just had some side effects? And we should evacuate Highjorune first, now that we're expecting problems there.: 

Is nobody going to comment on the fact that something confusing and concerning was happening to Blai right at the end of the vision????

:So - Featherfire, right? Brightstar's sister? - was going to be injured, and Blai gets summoned to Heal her, and - something happens...?: 

:She's Tayledras too, and would've been near a Heartstone before this happened. I - don't think she would deliberately hurt Blai, and she didn't seem to be in any shape for it anyway, but - maybe the Star-Eyed could act through her. I - we should probably avoid bringing Blai near her even if she does end up needing Healing, which - hopefully we can avoid that by getting her out of there immediately...: 

:We really should have picked her up already, it's just awfully logistically inconvenient unless we ask Leareth's people for the Gate. Which - plausibly we should do - it looked like they were handling the Gate in the prophecy.: 

Seldan is still a bit freaked out by whatever mysterious bad thing happened to Blai! Does Blai have any guesses about what that could be - he hasn't picked up that spells backfiring on the caster is a thing with Blai's magic, but if he were a Velgarth mage that would be Seldan's best guess...

:So, instead of earthquakes happening at random, they will occur whenever the Star-Eyed wants them to?: And no, he doesn't know why he'd collapse like that, that's not a thing he'd expect to happen as a result of any magic he'd have on hand.

:Apparently! That's really frustrating!: Savil shakes her head. :I mean, it would be a lot worse than some collapsed buildings if the spell fully went down. There's damage, something we think happened in the Cataclysm, if the spell wasn't holding things together then all of Lineas might fall into a pit of lava.: 

:I wonder if Leareth could do something. It'd - be very risky, doing any major working where the Star-Eyed can mess with things - but the Eastern Empire has alternate power sources for permanent Gates, maybe there's something Leareth could set up to replace the Heartstone and keep the spell active.: 

:I don't think causing earthquakes around Lineas is actually in Her interest unless it - what was even happening there - unless it forces us into a hasty rescue operation where we don't think especially hard about putting Blai in the same room as one of the Star-Eyed's people? Or, I mean, unless we're stupid enough to try an incredibly dangerous working on the site.: 

Vanyel shakes his head. :It might not just be Lineas that She can affect. It's - we didn't formally link the Web to the Lineas Heartstone as a power source, it's got enough of a job to do, but it's still in the Web.: 

Seldan has been trying to follow along. 

:...Would it stop being if Lineas went back to being independent from Valdemar? My understanding is that the Web extends to Valdemar's borders, not further, and - that predates the Heartstone by a long time, it might not be something the Star-Eyed Goddess can directly control.: 

:...I still have no idea how the Web does that. It seemed to just know, when we did the annexations.: It's kind of creepy now that he's thinking about it. 

:It's not instant. My theory is that it goes off the Heralds' expectations, or maybe the Companions. It's...definitely not perfectly understood, though, and I don't think we've ever seen what happens if Valdemar shrinks. ...And the Star-Eyed could interfere with the Death Bell even though that's older than the Heartstone.: 

:Why was Lineas annexed, is there an independence movement it might make sense to back?:

:Their entire royal family - and nearly all the Palace staff - were eaten by demons as part of a plot by the neighboring country to conquer them. Tashir was the only survivor and he was accused of killing everyone with Fetching, it was - a huge mess - he ended up with a Companion, approximately the entire royal family of Baires ended up dead in the aftermath, and we eventually figured out an arrangement where Valdemar annexed both and put Tashir in charge. I don't know that we could meaningfully call them independent from Valdemar if there's a Herald on the throne.: 

Savil purses her lips. :The eaten-by-demons artifact is something Leareth made for a mage in Baires. He didn't actually intend any of what happened, but - I feel a bit like in all this deciding he's not our main enemy, we've been forgetting the man is willing to do horrifically evil things.: 

.......Blai is not in line for and was not planning to seek any executive political offices but this really should have come up in the "should you get a Companion" talk, it's not like he told anyone that the Constitutional Convention wasn't expected to end with one of its number named Supreme Elect like Andoran has or something. (For all he knows maybe it is! Oh no what if that happens!)

It doesn't seem like an analogous enough situation for Seldan to think that would be particularly concerning. Cheliax is in another world! There's no existing eight-year backdrop of Cheliax being a province of Valdemar. Also they're not trying to figure out the minimum change of administration that would convince a poorly-understood ancient piece of magical infrastructure, which might literally make its determination off "are there Heralds in this region", to exclude Cheliax from Valdemar's borders. Though also it seems like Blai doesn't want to be in any political offices and Seldan would have some serious objections to the Constitutional Convention's process if they tried to elect Blai without giving him the opportunity to say no.

He's inclined to agree with Vanyel that it seems pretty iffy whether writing some words on a piece of paper, even a highly official piece of paper, while not changing much else would convince the Web that Lineas under Tashir should be kicked out, even assuming the Star-Eyed can't just directly prevent them from pulling the Web away. 

Well, whether Blai wants an office doesn't matter necessarily, it might be that (for example) he's the only native Chelish Select and that could be important in some possible scenarios and he'd suck it up and do the job if he had to. Anyway, that's a sidenote, sounds like Lineas is part of Valdemar and has a Heartstone. Where else has a Heartstone?