Legend of Ransera

This is something that a lot of runesmiths knew. Even the apprentice runesmiths would know about this because its normally one of the questions they would ask their teachers. Completed viscerite, those were never kept for long and also a pain in the ass to reuse. For the runesmiths, they would consider it difficult and for the apprentice runesmiths something which was almost an impossibility. That said there were some conditions to this difficulty in working with viscerite and most notably where Dakkur's project was concerned, especially when it came to adding new properties to the viscerite. Eventhough he was the lead of this project, even Dakkur would have to admit that this would be something beyond his skill and experiences but, the big but, throughout the making of this viscerite there was only one property he needed. The property of aerolyth. The property of aerolyth which would be able to work with air and wind like the name it was more commonly known by.

The scraps of viscerite he used all had the properties of controlling the wind in them, just as they needed to in their principal projects. It was these properties which Dakkur took, added and stacked to create even stronger abilities to control the wind. Of course the stronger it was, the harder it was going to be to refine the properties of the viscerite towards the function he wanted in his project. Which was why he even had to make use of individuals with special affinities to the element of wind to help him control all the aether it contained as it moved about and to prevent that very same aether from causing any mishaps when the project was in use. And if these were the difficult considerations Dakkur had to deal with, what more his assistant? Which was why Dakkur was not going to allow the man to have anything to do with the magical properties inherent to the dragonshards.

No his task was even simpler than that. Bringing out the basic tools all runesmiths were familiar with, the orb they were working with and having them all laid out on the runesmith's workbench. "You know what to do right?" Oh. No? Maybe this was how his teachers and bosses felt everytime they had to hold his hand through the process of forging their works. However he also knew if these people had decided not to indulge him, even treated him with a lot more negativity, he surely would not be encouraged enough to be able to continue his part of their jobs properly. Treated badly enough with the levels of negativity which he could not even tolerate, he might have quite on the craft altogether but would that be really bad? His mind wandered off, maybe he would have gone full time into the field of archaeology. Imagine all the adventures and discoveries he could have had.

"Do you have anywhere else you would rather be at this moment, if not here?" Right that was a stupid question and it came with the answer he did not want to hear. "No, no, no. I was just curious about something, not the other plans you would have today. I still need you here. You know, to help me with this work?" and pointed to the tools the man was going to have to use as well as the orb he was going to have to work on. He thought he already explained it to his assistant the few days before, when they had their discussion of his project but if he was going to have to repeat it all over again... "You know how you apprentices are usually helping with the viscerite making? And sometimes when you do a really good job that has us seniors trust you more? You know when you don't screw up and blow up the forge? We finally think you can do some actual improvements to the stuff? Yeah its like that." Well not the trust part, if Dakkur did not even have the least bit of trust in his assistant, he would have gotten someone else to help him.

It was the improvement stuff. "You're going to start off with the structural improvements. Come on, don't be like that. You've done this hundreds of times already. Yeah?" What else was it going to be when one of the most important things to the orb was going to be in containment. Containment of some rather sensitive and volatile materials, or so he hopes that would be how it ends up working. And it was with that idea in mind that "you just want to make it strong. Strong enough to hold back any pressure from inside of it. That and you want to make the viscerite as compact as possible, so nothing escapes... you... you know what I mean right? Its all so nothing can come out?" Obviously Dakkur was already losing the man with his vague descriptions and decided if nothing else, a demonstration would be better to get his point across.

The frequencies involving the viscerite's structure, as a runesmith he has handled something like this hundreds of times that he could easily find out which of the myraid of frequencies was the one he was looking for just by waving the tonal fork around. Using a method, a pattern, randomly or for fun; whatever he did, given enough time he would find it. And after that, hammer tap, hammer tap, hammer tap. Was it stronger now? It should be. Ding! went the tonal fork. It definitely sounded like it got stronger. "And that is all you have to do, until the whole orb goes," as he waved the tonal fork around the spot he had been tapping on, "ding!" although it was more like the sound made by the fork and not the sound he himself made to express the changes. Dakkur came back periodically to check on his assistant, as he should, and then went back to preparing the rest of his work.

it was the same the next day. Dakkur did a demonstration with the tonal fork to find frequencies only this time it was not the frequency to strengthen the viscerite but the frequency to make the viscerite more compact so it could retain whatever it gathered. Ding! Tap! Tap! Ding! Tap! Tap! Ding! Tap! Tap! went the demonstration which was all that was needed to do because "you only have to do it like that again, alright? Although now that he figured there was another part of the demonstration he would have to do he had no idea how he was even going to do it. How was he going to find out if it became more compact? That question when it came out was unexpectedly answered by his assistant. With so much aerolyth lying around for the season's project, why not use those to test his orb? After a few tests, both figured they had as good an indicator as any that their improvements were working effectively.

And then the day after it was improvements on the structure again, just in case and the day after that? Making the viscerite a lot more compact. Alternating the process each day just in fast it would make the improvements better. After that it was time for Dakkur to do his part as it was already the halfway point. "We can continue this tomorrow? Or the day after? If you are still free. And thanks again!" It was time to work with the aether within the aerolyth. As he knew the mists were always on the move and by stimulating the movement of the mist once it was inside the orb, maybe he could trick it into thinking it was always moving just as it would instead of being stuck in place. The added complexity of this task was obvious as Dakkur had to bring out the aura glass. Along with the chisel and along with the hammer he went back through the motions of all the other projects he had been involved this season. The chisel to direct the the flow of the aether all around the orb, the hammer to smooth things over with the movement of the aether and well, the physical form of the viscerite.

As he already did most of the magical work during the process of making the viscerite, that one day of distributing the flow as all that was needed. And then... "shit!" he had already dismissed his assistant already had he not? That meant another two days of repeating the things the assistant should have been doing all by himself but on the bright side he no longer needed the time saved by having an assistant for his rest of further preparations of his project. After all he was already very close to the end.