Donor: Tidus, but originally gotten by Ash ([personal profile] bombashbunny) we're turning the old library space into the art space ok
Description: A hefty leather-bound book that seems to be hand bound lovingly. It is a lovely burgundy leather with darker ombre near the corners, which are clasped in a gold-looking metal. The cover is pressed with elaborate designs, most notably a meteor in the middle with a suggestions of magic surrounding it. There also seems to be the suggestion of circuitry along the other edges of the cover, straight lines in parallel with one another. The title of the book is not on the front, but there is the title in Hingan on the spine of the book, delicately painted. The paint looks fresh, as if it were a touch up for a well used book.
Opening the book gives the title page, just as elaborate as the front, but done in full color in a water color style. The entire page is filled with color with accents of gold and silver, truly giving lend to the nature of magic (or, however the person who designed this sees it). The acknowledgements seem to be in an ancient not-quite-Japanese type script thanking someone named Aragibal Kha, Felih Tia, Cid Garlond, and a Cocobuki. The rest of the script is Eorzean (a very stylized English), written in small, very neat cursive. The book is quite dense as it explains aether and magic and how to tie them into magitek. It will go over advanced topics including how aether can be stored, how it can be used in a magitek sense, and some creative applications of it. It then goes into advanced nitty gritty on integrating aether into magitek.
As you go through the book there are additional notes in the margin in a messy scribble of someone else's hand, adding counterpoints or extra observations for "those without aether sensitivity" (Eorzeans read: Garleans).
At the back of the book is a section blank pages, as if bound extra for some notes space, and there seems to be hasty writing between the two hands about a being called Alexander and the time properties it exhibits. Fresher ink is written about something called The Tycoon. There are theories on how to accommodate time travel based on these two beings, with sketches of devices, related complex geometries, and some extra thoughts in both hands scribbled there.
Principles of Aether, Magic, and Magitek
Description: A hefty leather-bound book that seems to be hand bound lovingly. It is a lovely burgundy leather with darker ombre near the corners, which are clasped in a gold-looking metal. The cover is pressed with elaborate designs, most notably a meteor in the middle with a suggestions of magic surrounding it. There also seems to be the suggestion of circuitry along the other edges of the cover, straight lines in parallel with one another. The title of the book is not on the front, but there is the title in Hingan on the spine of the book, delicately painted. The paint looks fresh, as if it were a touch up for a well used book.
Opening the book gives the title page, just as elaborate as the front, but done in full color in a water color style. The entire page is filled with color with accents of gold and silver, truly giving lend to the nature of magic (or, however the person who designed this sees it). The acknowledgements seem to be in an ancient not-quite-Japanese type script thanking someone named Aragibal Kha, Felih Tia, Cid Garlond, and a Cocobuki. The rest of the script is Eorzean (a very stylized English), written in small, very neat cursive. The book is quite dense as it explains aether and magic and how to tie them into magitek. It will go over advanced topics including how aether can be stored, how it can be used in a magitek sense, and some creative applications of it. It then goes into advanced nitty gritty on integrating aether into magitek.
As you go through the book there are additional notes in the margin in a messy scribble of someone else's hand, adding counterpoints or extra observations for "those without aether sensitivity" (Eorzeans read: Garleans).
At the back of the book is a section blank pages, as if bound extra for some notes space, and there seems to be hasty writing between the two hands about a being called Alexander and the time properties it exhibits. Fresher ink is written about something called The Tycoon. There are theories on how to accommodate time travel based on these two beings, with sketches of devices, related complex geometries, and some extra thoughts in both hands scribbled there.