Rook Museum
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The Rook Museum was introduced as a way to educate players on the history of the Rook during the Quest It's Educational. It is located in Jethimadh Tower. The museum contains both pictures and ancient artifacts accompanied by a speaker that tells you about them.
A transcript is included below; the quest has no subtitles. Hburger also made a video of her to the museum.
Transcript
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“Back in the early ages of Ur, when small islands formed spontaneously from the primordial chaos, only to be rendered unrecognizable moments later by the constant ebb and flow of imagination, the ancient Glitchian tribes suffered under constant threats to their very survival. There was the instability of the environment, the paucity of piggies—not to mention going to sleep every night without knowing what shapes or substances their meager huts might be when they awoke—but by far the most dangerous and terrifying of these was the Rook. The Rook, enemy of imagination, visited its wrath upon whatever the Giants’ minds created. It was the very manifestation of fear, doubt and uncertainty and it pecked and clawed relentlessly at the periphery of the Giants’ domain, black winter to the Giants’ spring of creativity. It was, if I can say so myself, most awful.”
“After noticing the capability of a particularly strong, focused and concentrated burst of imagination to temporarily stun The Rook, ascetics and yogis of the [Groddle Meadow|[Meadow]] Tribes set to work to develop a more reliable method of harnessing this defensive action. Employing the recent technological breakthrough of spun-crystal focusing orbs they learned to draw the small imaginations of individual Glitches together and blast the rook into stillness, at least temporarily.”
“They gave this discipline the name of ‘Martial Imagination’ and the image preserved in this display shows an elder Glitch in early times leading imaginators to defend against a stream of Rook attacks.”
Ancient Orb
“While the lustre of this ancient focusing orb has faded with the passing of generations, in ages long past, its flawless surface of spun crystal presumably acted as a nexus for the imaginations of our Glitchian ancestors, and a potent weapon against the Rook.
Painting: Esquibeth of Inari Primes a Shrine
Xacau Feera Blin. Year 2.
“The power of imagination increases geometrically with each contributor. Three minds are twice as clever as two, four twice as clever as three, but such power is not easily contained even by the most resilient of materials. As more and more thoughts and dreams are poured upon the orb, it begins to shift colours from a calming blue, to an emerald green, to a brilliant orange. A dangerous, unstable equilibrium is reached when the crystal glows a fiery red. Beyond this point, further contradictory notions racing around the surface of the orb create the dramatic risk of a paradox, which can shatter the crystal, and embolden the Rook.”
“Generations struggled to find a way to fight back against the Rook and end their destruction of creativity. No progress was made until the extraordinarily Pious Esquibeth of Inari discovered that her will alone could turn a normal shrine to a weapon, harnessing the direct conduit to the minds of the Giants to return fire instead of favor.”
“Discovered half-buried in a rock face at Ekorran Roughs, it would be easy to pass the coarse stonework of this ancient shrine by as simply another natural feature. But while the crafts of ancient Glitchian tribespeople may have been rudimentary, they still excelled in their piety and devotion to the Giants. This shrine would have played an integral role in the everyday ceremonies of village life. The holofilm which follows demonstrates a pious primitive priming the shrine for an attack.”
“As legends tell it, these battle plans were recovered from an abandoned nest after a series of courageous attacks repulsed The Rook entirely from the Isle of Uralia. Though its true provenance has never been proven to the satisfaction of all skeptics, most now believe it to be a genuine artifact — indeed, the only such artifact ever to fall into Glitchian hands — and the only example of Rookish script ever seen.”