:Has anyone told you what he got up to later on, after he went back to Predain, and then during the war?: 

:I assume some things that occurred in the intervening two millennia were left out:

:Seems relevant for you to know: 

Dara straightens up suddenly from her plate. :Oh! You probably read ancient Kaled'a'in, right? I think Van has some of Urtho's journals in the original script: 

:Sure, I even have practice reading his handwriting:

:It's really bad! He wrote so damned much, you'd've thought he'd get better at it eventually: 

Tran is still staring thoughtfully at Azabel. :...What do you think could have happened?: he says, finally. :To Ma'ar, I mean, for him to end up - so different from the person you knew...: 

:I don't know. I mean, I'd hope it wasn't that, uh, I vanished and never reappeared, but it didn't sound like it was obviously about me in any way from what I have heard so far:

:You'd think Urtho would have mentioned something in his journals about messing up with an artifact and disappearing a student! We could be missing some I guess, but we found entries from around the right time period: 

:It would be a pretty major omission but you wouldn't have to be missing very many, I guess:

:And it's not like very much of the Tower survived. Who knows, he could've just kept them in a different room: Dara rubs her shoulder, tiredly. :I'll get you the journals we have in Kaled'a'in. ...Oh, and by the way, Jisa said you might be up for helping out with weather-magic? We're really short on mages right now, since Savil died and Van, er, isn't here: 

:I know how. I don't really feel up for taking sides in the war but I don't specifically want you to be having blizzards or anything so I'm up for it when I feel sure that you're just defending yourselves and didn't, like, start it:

:What exactly do you want to know, to be more sure of that?: 

:Could you teach me to do that truth spell?:

He glances at Dara, then back to her. :...Maybe? I'm not sure if only Heralds can do it: 

:Van taught Shavri, that time. But she's...complicated: Dara looks back over at Azabel. :I think we'll have to discuss it amongst ourselves first: 

Aza nods. She has her own way to do the same thing but whether they'll teach her will be very informative.

:It might be good for you to catch up on some of Leareth's other history - after the Cataclysm - but we know less, and only what he told Van. So who knows if we can trust him to be telling the truth about any of it: 

:Pretty sure he wasn't lying about which treatises on economics he wrote. You can tell it's him, once you know the connection, and, well, why would he bother to lie: She looks at Azabel again. :He spent some time conquering countries and building empires, but - maybe even more time being a scholar. Does that sound in-character for Ma'ar?: 

:Yes, he's very smart and academic:

Nod. :I should go, I have a meeting - any other questions? Or anything else you need?: 

:Where are the journals, can I see them?:

:In our archives. I'll bring them over after the meeting - or, hmm, I can send someone else...: 

:If you wouldn't mind. I don't have much to do at the moment:

:Of course:

And Dara escorts her back to her room, without saying anything, before rushing off.