Below are the 5 most recent journal entries recorded in Cyan Garramonde's LiveJournal:

Friday, March 17th, 2006
12:32 am	These computers are fascinating. Of all the machinery in our world, we had nothing like them. I have learned that they are some higher order of machines called electronics. Now, I understand absolutely nothing about these contraptions or the way that they work, but I have found that they are excellent sources of... well, let us say that I have discovered how to use them to replace my... novels. Not only can you find such material of excellent quality, but there are also photographs! Photographs, not just drawings, mind thee, and in color! It still amazes me to see such high technology in this world, but this is one technology that I will make full use of... Current Mood: excited (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 9th, 2006
11:58 pm	Today, I taught a lesson regarding the spirits within various objects, but primarily in weaponry. Students were encouraged to begin to learn to free these spirits and learn to focus and direct them to aid in battle. I demonstrated for the class by drawing the Dragon of Doma from my Ashura. Many students seemed to have questions concerning the similarities between this method of martial animism and the magic of summoning. I explained that these are two very different combat styles and that the drawing of spirits is not magic, but rather something more of a link between the physical world and the world of the spirits. I do not understand the mechanics of summoning magic, and so I referred these students to my counterpart in the Magic departments. I directed a fairly lengthy discussion on the relationship between martial animism and the teachings of the philosophers we have studied thus far. I am considering making this the topic of our first exam. Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this)
Monday, January 30th, 2006
1:27 pm	I have set about finding some strong material with which to fashion a proper standard of Doma. Perhaps I should have thought to do this sooner, but my time was well spent elsewise until I came here to the school. I have an office to myself, and I plan to display the standard there. Though I am not a trained seamster, I do not worry. I believe that I will be able to fashion a banner that adheres to Doman tradition and law. Perhaps, to some, it may seem foolish to continue to uphold the traditions of a nation that has died. Doma still lives in me, and it will live so long as I draw breath. I cannot allow myself to forget a single face from among the slain. It is particularly difficult to see the face of the man who smote an entire people from the face of our earth and to know that I am forbidden from destroying him. But I think that it is unhealthy for me to continue to dwell on it. Doma was a nation of peace. It is more an insult to their memory for me to hold this hatred inside me than if I allow myself to live with a peaceful heart. My students, on the whole, seem much more interested in my lessons now that I have modified my syllabus. A lesson consists mainly of a somewhat structured discussion and debate over a reading assigned outside of class rather than a dry lecture over that reading. I hesitate to say that I am in... Kefka's debt for this suggestion. I shall have to find some way to repay this... (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 29th, 2006
9:02 pm	I must say that I am rather perplexed. The fiend - I suppose I really ought to refer to him by his name - has made mention of some possessed monkey doll, and this doll seems to make a habit of tormenting him and especially the gambler. I asked him why he did not simply disenchant or destroy the thing, since he seems to be a powerful man of sorcery, but he claimed that such could not be accomplished by his power. I advised him to seek out the council of the teachers of magic here in the faculty, and apparently, this had not occurred to him before. Perhaps he will find a cure to this rather strange conundrum. My class is progressing very well, and the students are especially enthralled by my lectures on the teachings of King Doma I. Either enthralled or asleep, I think. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
12:34 am	I have arrived at the school today, and it all seems rather overwhelming. There are very many mechanical things I do not understand, and even more things of some higher order of machinery that we have not achieved in our world. Sir Cid attempted to explain to all of us that we may or may not arrive together, that it would be very different once we arrived, and that we may or may not find that vile dog we came to seek. It would seem that it should be very difficult for me to return home, especially knowing that the curr still walks and lives a free man. I have decided to accept a teaching position here as a professor of philosophy. Teachers of the blade abound from many worlds, but there is as of yet no one who is willing or able to teach the spirit of the blade and the way of the warrior. Perhaps I can instill in the hearts and minds of those young people here some sense of honor that will keep every world free from men like that foul cretin. (2 Comments |Comment on this)