Post by Jenny on Jan 20, 2020 14:23:10 GMT -5
Permission granted by Forest_blight to post his and Stercox's solution:
Introduction by Forest_Blight:
In June 2007, our team -- Forest Blight and Stercox -- proposed a final solution to Quest: In Search of the Dragontooth to Mr. Michael Green, its author, and received the following response which we thought we would share with our fellow Q4T'ers. For completeness sake, we would like to supply you with our findings and evidence for this Quest for each station (to follow in separate threads). Please note, though we have attempted to verify and finalize this solve, we have been unsuccessful in further contacts with Mr. Green beyond this email and consequently, we wanted to share our research with the Q4T community so that it wouldn't go to waste:
stercox wrote:
Dear Mr. Green,
You've just made our day! Thank you for your kind response.
We have been thoroughly enjoying your creation Quest: In Search of the
Dragontooth. We have been studying it now for over a year and have come to our
best solution for this exquisite mystery. That said, we recognize that we may
not have the detail required for some of the stations to be fully accepted as
solved and if more detail is required, please let us know. We do admit that
Station 15 has been our most difficult and so we are submitting our working
theory regarding this station. We have used the 1994 publication (the purple
book) exclusively for this quest, but note that a 1996 edition exists with
perhaps new material presented. Should we need to rework our
submissions---does the newer 1996 edition offer additional information that would help us?
If so, we will get a copy of it and go back to the drawing board. A drawing
board that we have had a lot of fun around, by the way. Your feedback would
be exhilarating for us to hear right now. Thank you for your talent and your
consideration, in these, our submissions below.
Sincerely,
stercox
forest blight
Station I Anchiano, Italy
Station II Brescia, Italy
Station III Monastery of Bobbio, Bobbio, Italy
Station IV Royal Chateau d' Amboise Loire Valley, France
Station V Chateau du Clos Luce Loire Valley, France
Station VI Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, France
Station VII Cote des Megalithes at Carnac, France
Station VIII Mount St. Michaels, Cornwall, England>
Station IX London, England
Station X Newbury, England
Station XI Oxford, England
Station XII St. Patrick's Purgatory, Saints Island, Lough Derg, Ireland
Station XIII The Burren, Near Galway, Ireland
Station XIV An Seisear, Near Beenalaght, Ireland
Station XV Temple Church, City of London, England
...to which Mr. Green replied:
Michael Green wrote:
Dear stercox,
you have I believe almost all right! No one else ever came close.
Alas, the answers are filed in a formidable heap--we just moved.
I will try and dig them out soon and go over it.
And see if by the rules I can tell you specifics.
All in the nick of time to save the planet. Or maybe just a kiss too late?
Onward,
Michael
We will start one new thread for each of the 15 stations in the near future. It's best to read them in order.
"...it may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve." Image
Station I (1457, p. 74)
ANCHIANO, ITALY. Magnalucius' birthplace. Ibn (p. 74) says, "Station the first -- the very beginnings, your mother-birth." On p. 31 we learn that Magnalucius was born in Anchiano, Italy. Anchiano, incidentally, is also the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, who crops up later in our tale. Magnalucius was born in 1457, only five years after Leonardo. This fact is crucial because later Magnalucius visits his step-brother, who we now have reason to believe is Leonardo himself. Together with the date of the quest, 1517 (see how we arrive at this date later), that makes Magnalucius about 60 years old during our tale.
Introduction by Forest_Blight:
In June 2007, our team -- Forest Blight and Stercox -- proposed a final solution to Quest: In Search of the Dragontooth to Mr. Michael Green, its author, and received the following response which we thought we would share with our fellow Q4T'ers. For completeness sake, we would like to supply you with our findings and evidence for this Quest for each station (to follow in separate threads). Please note, though we have attempted to verify and finalize this solve, we have been unsuccessful in further contacts with Mr. Green beyond this email and consequently, we wanted to share our research with the Q4T community so that it wouldn't go to waste:
stercox wrote:
Dear Mr. Green,
You've just made our day! Thank you for your kind response.
We have been thoroughly enjoying your creation Quest: In Search of the
Dragontooth. We have been studying it now for over a year and have come to our
best solution for this exquisite mystery. That said, we recognize that we may
not have the detail required for some of the stations to be fully accepted as
solved and if more detail is required, please let us know. We do admit that
Station 15 has been our most difficult and so we are submitting our working
theory regarding this station. We have used the 1994 publication (the purple
book) exclusively for this quest, but note that a 1996 edition exists with
perhaps new material presented. Should we need to rework our
submissions---does the newer 1996 edition offer additional information that would help us?
If so, we will get a copy of it and go back to the drawing board. A drawing
board that we have had a lot of fun around, by the way. Your feedback would
be exhilarating for us to hear right now. Thank you for your talent and your
consideration, in these, our submissions below.
Sincerely,
stercox
forest blight
Station I Anchiano, Italy
Station II Brescia, Italy
Station III Monastery of Bobbio, Bobbio, Italy
Station IV Royal Chateau d' Amboise Loire Valley, France
Station V Chateau du Clos Luce Loire Valley, France
Station VI Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Chartres, France
Station VII Cote des Megalithes at Carnac, France
Station VIII Mount St. Michaels, Cornwall, England>
Station IX London, England
Station X Newbury, England
Station XI Oxford, England
Station XII St. Patrick's Purgatory, Saints Island, Lough Derg, Ireland
Station XIII The Burren, Near Galway, Ireland
Station XIV An Seisear, Near Beenalaght, Ireland
Station XV Temple Church, City of London, England
...to which Mr. Green replied:
Michael Green wrote:
Dear stercox,
you have I believe almost all right! No one else ever came close.
Alas, the answers are filed in a formidable heap--we just moved.
I will try and dig them out soon and go over it.
And see if by the rules I can tell you specifics.
All in the nick of time to save the planet. Or maybe just a kiss too late?
Onward,
Michael
We will start one new thread for each of the 15 stations in the near future. It's best to read them in order.
"...it may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma of the kind which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve." Image
Station I (1457, p. 74)
ANCHIANO, ITALY. Magnalucius' birthplace. Ibn (p. 74) says, "Station the first -- the very beginnings, your mother-birth." On p. 31 we learn that Magnalucius was born in Anchiano, Italy. Anchiano, incidentally, is also the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, who crops up later in our tale. Magnalucius was born in 1457, only five years after Leonardo. This fact is crucial because later Magnalucius visits his step-brother, who we now have reason to believe is Leonardo himself. Together with the date of the quest, 1517 (see how we arrive at this date later), that makes Magnalucius about 60 years old during our tale.
