Post by forestlink on Jan 15, 2023 14:27:25 GMT -5
I found a copy of the Quest last year and I’m curious if anyone is still working on this hunt. The solutions to the stations/locations posted here make a lot of sense and I appreciate all the research stercox and Forest_Blight put into this! I could see one change that might possibly fit the author’s solution. Beyond that though, there do seem to be other clues that point toward an actual tooth hidden somewhere to be located.
“After many weeks, the possible whereabouts of the Tooth were determined, and the team set out to find it. At the site, a metal detector quickly indicated something beneath the ground, so they dug, and unearthed a casket…” (p. 14)
Various parts of illustrations (and the woodcut print) have patterns, shapes, words or other elements that can’t be just decorative and also don’t have to do with the station locations. In other places the text seems to offer hints (although the whole story is somewhat cryptic in that way).
*OTOH, the insert from the publishers in my edition suggests “the Dragontooth exists in a spiritual realm, and may not be touched with the hand.” So which is it?
The big overall puzzle, to me, is tracking the path of the Dragontooth across history from all the different accounts Magnalucius documents. I’ll create another thread just for this matter.
These are some of the clues or unexplained details that stand out to me…
- p. 81: What is the translation of the stone cross?
- p. 89: The page from Fondla’s journal seems to be important. “I stared at it as if it would render up an answer to the riddle. ‘Mark the details,’ said Ibn, who had silently come over. ‘Though the work has its beauty, it is full of minor errors. A sign of haste perhaps?’” (p. 91). It’s also on the book cover. As best I can translate: “Be rooted and grounded in charity to know the sublime and profound length & depth (lat/lon).” Are there coordinates hidden somewhere?
- p. 96: The Tooth is called one of the elemental virtues. On the same page he refers to the woodcut, with the 4 elements at the points of the cross (another cross). The phrase is repeated on p. 122. Significant?
- p. 99: curious geometric figures
- p. 127: Clues to the ultimate location. Who are the two who removed the 2 Teeth in Magnalucius’s vision, in long gray gown and “a badge that showed three heads in silhouette”? To find the solution, he and Faust “went over each station of the Quest” and “interpreted Fondla’s illumination.” It’s found at 20 feet square from some marker. “By Sophia’s brow, the grand pattern holds to the end. And guarded by Koranian the dwarf!”
And so on...
“After many weeks, the possible whereabouts of the Tooth were determined, and the team set out to find it. At the site, a metal detector quickly indicated something beneath the ground, so they dug, and unearthed a casket…” (p. 14)
Various parts of illustrations (and the woodcut print) have patterns, shapes, words or other elements that can’t be just decorative and also don’t have to do with the station locations. In other places the text seems to offer hints (although the whole story is somewhat cryptic in that way).
*OTOH, the insert from the publishers in my edition suggests “the Dragontooth exists in a spiritual realm, and may not be touched with the hand.” So which is it?
The big overall puzzle, to me, is tracking the path of the Dragontooth across history from all the different accounts Magnalucius documents. I’ll create another thread just for this matter.
These are some of the clues or unexplained details that stand out to me…
- p. 81: What is the translation of the stone cross?
- p. 89: The page from Fondla’s journal seems to be important. “I stared at it as if it would render up an answer to the riddle. ‘Mark the details,’ said Ibn, who had silently come over. ‘Though the work has its beauty, it is full of minor errors. A sign of haste perhaps?’” (p. 91). It’s also on the book cover. As best I can translate: “Be rooted and grounded in charity to know the sublime and profound length & depth (lat/lon).” Are there coordinates hidden somewhere?
- p. 96: The Tooth is called one of the elemental virtues. On the same page he refers to the woodcut, with the 4 elements at the points of the cross (another cross). The phrase is repeated on p. 122. Significant?
- p. 99: curious geometric figures
- p. 127: Clues to the ultimate location. Who are the two who removed the 2 Teeth in Magnalucius’s vision, in long gray gown and “a badge that showed three heads in silhouette”? To find the solution, he and Faust “went over each station of the Quest” and “interpreted Fondla’s illumination.” It’s found at 20 feet square from some marker. “By Sophia’s brow, the grand pattern holds to the end. And guarded by Koranian the dwarf!”
And so on...
