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10TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_000What, pray tell, brings you to the Athenaeum? We are not a guild like those one may find in the lower city–states. No one here will take you under their wing, holding your hand as they divulge centuries of cumulative knowledge to any mere stranger who believes herself entitled to it. Well...almost no one, that is.
21TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_001Ah, Lord Jannequinard's latest consociate. I trust your, ah...training, is proceeding...ah, smoothly?
32TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_Q1_000_000Is there aught you wish to know?
43TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_A1_000_001Tell me of yourself.
54TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_A1_000_002Tell me of this place.
65TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_A1_000_003Tell me more of astrology.
76TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_A1_000_004Not at this time.
87TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_010My name is Guillestet. I am in my second year of studies on the coveted path to becoming an astrologian. All novitiates are assigned a task at the Athenaeum to which we are required to attend between our classes. The stars saw it fit that I be assigned receptionist duty...with Lord Jannequinard.
98TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_011He is, by no means, a bad man...only a tad eccentric. Being the second son to the Count de Durendaire means he is free to do as he wishes...and most of the time he wishes to pay call on the city–state's young maidens...despite being almost as old as mine own father.
109TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_012The rest of the time, he continues his “studies” of Sharlayan astrology─something he began almost twenty summers ago when he spent time in the now abandoned city–state training with the heathen astrologians. His bloodline protects him from the scrutiny of higher-ranking officials here, but it is his lack of talent which truly keeps the wolves at bay.
1110TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_013In other words, he is harmless. I am merely required to suffer his whims until I pass my examinations and get assigned a position at the Observatorium. Then, some new novitiate will be assigned the post and the cycle will continue as it has for more than a decade.
1211TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_020The Athenaeum Astrologicum was founded by Saint Guenriol to serve as a place where astrologians such as myself might learn and perfect methods used to read the stars.
1312TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_021Since the discovery by Adaunel the Younger that the Dravanian Horde were using the relative position of a celestial body we now refer to as the dragon star to determine their attacks on the Holy See, we have ever been seeking to decipher the dragons' code. Theories constructed here are subsequently taken south to the Observatorium where they are put into practice.
1413TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_022Ah... We also offer...limited training in Sharlayan astrology─a school of star reading neither recognized nor approved of by the Athenaeum, the Observatorium, or the Holy See.
1514TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_023The only reason I even mention it is because I have been...ah, commanded to do so by Lord Jannequinard.
1615TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_030Astrology originated thousands of years ago in Sharlayan, and was introduced to Eorzea when the Sharlayans founded their colony in the Dravanian hinterlands.
1716TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_031It remained a minor field of study, eclipsed by larger ones such as conjury and thaumaturgy, until three centuries ago when an Ishgardian astrologian by the name of Adaunel the Younger discovered that the stars could be used to determine the movements of the Dravanian Horde.
1817TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_032It was then that Ishgardian astrology was born, the focus moving from fortune-telling and fate-scrying to something actually useful─preventing the death of knights by knowing when and where the Horde would arrive.
1918TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_033You will not see an Ishgardian astrologian carrying about a star globe or an astrolabe. You will not see him consulting with a divining deck or gazing into the stars, hoping to draw forth its aether and use it to manipulate fates.
2019TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_034You will not hear talk of the gates of the seven heavens or the chantings of minor spells woven to heal cuts or enmusculate sword arms. Well, you will not hear these things as long as you keep your distance from Lord Jannequinard.
2120TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_002Lord Jannequinard tells me that you have opened the sixth and final gate of heaven. I was almost compelled to tell him that there were seven heavens, meaning the sixth couldn't be the last...but then I realized that would entail actually having a conversation with his grace─something to which I was not ready to commit my sanity.
2221TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_003I...ah, may have been hasty in my judgment of Sharlayan astrology, as it appears more than simple fortune-telling.
2322TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_004Do you know how long it took me to accept Sharlayan astrology as a legitimate school of knowledge? And now you are asking me to accept the teachings of this Far Eastern flake? I should have been a machinist...
2423TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_005I...ah, may have been hasty in my judgment of geomancy, as well. But I stand by my assessment of Kyokuho as a flake...despite what Fleuraie thinks!
2524TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_Q2_000_000Is there aught you wish to know?
2625TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_A2_000_001Tell me of recent happenings.
2726TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_A2_000_002Tell me of this place.
2827TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_A2_000_003Tell me of astrology.
2928TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_A2_000_004Not at this time.
3029TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_050Lord Forlemort─chief astrologian at the Observatorium, and longtime vocal dissident of Lord Jannequinard's dabbling in Sharlayan astrology─has mysteriously fallen silent, at least with his objections to the young noble's eccentricities.
3130TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_051I cannot begin to imagine why the chief astrologian would do this, but he has, and so I suppose this mean Lord Jannequinard will now be using the added slack to his leash to begin barking up newfound trees.
3231TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_052Lady Leveva seems a smart woman, yet I do not see why she insists on remaining in a place that so obviously wishes her immediate departure. I would have returned to Sharlayan long ago if I were in her same shoes.
3332TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_100In between her training of the House Durendaire knights, Lady Lev─ah, Lord Rufin has been traveling the countryside, visiting camps and outposts, doling out succor to those in need─spreading the word of Sharlayan astrology without actually saying a word.
3433TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_101And Lord Jannequinard? Little has changed. He still comes in after the zenith, and leaves before the sixteenth bell...
3534TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_102But there are times I catch him practicing a spell or two when he believes no one is watching. Perhaps I was wrong to judge him...as perhaps I was wrong to judge Sharlayan astrology.
3635TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_105Master *Rufin* spends her days in and out of the Athenaeum. When not within these walls, she will either be at the Scholasticate nurturing young minds, or out searching for more documentation on geomancy. She is even talking of an expedition into the Great Gubal Library.
3736TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_106Your adventure in the Far East has again stoked the curiosity which ever burns in her heart, and I fear it will not soon cool.
3837TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_107As for you... Ishgard is still abuzz with your heroic deeds. There have been more than a few come knocking at our doors seeking to follow in the footsteps of the great Player Player. For that, the Athenaeum is in your debt.
3938TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_200For long it seemed Master Rufin was possessed of ill humours, but fortunately for us the spell has passed without consequence.
4039TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_201As long as we experience no further interruptions from the East, the lady should continue to make progress on her efforts to fold geomantic teachings into Western astrology.
4140TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_130Master Rufin has been positively obsessed with your activities of late. She believes that your work in her homeland bodes well for the proliferation of Sharlayan astrology...
4241TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_131I would be inclined to agree, were I not here to personally witness the repeated interruption of her work by rumors of starfaring adventurers.
4342TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_132Now that his “proper” geomancy has taken hold in the Far East, Kokuho's persistent visits are also becoming quite the distraction... <sigh> Indeed, there's rarely a dull moment at the Athenaeum these days.
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4746TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_060The Athenaeum Astrologicum was founded by Saint Guenriol to serve as a place where astrologians such as myself might learn and perfect methods used to read the stars.
4847TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_061Since the discovery by Adaunel the Younger that the Dravanian Horde were using the relative position of a celestial body we now refer to as the dragon star to determine their attacks on the Holy See, we have ever been seeking to decipher the dragons' code. Theories constructed here are subsequently taken south to the Observatorium where they are put into practice.
4948TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_062Ah... We also offer limited training in Sharlayan astrology─a school of star reading not formally recognized by the Athenaeum, the Observatorium, or the Holy See...but no longer fully opposed by them either. The only reason I even mention it is because Lord Jannequinard quietly insists.
5049TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_110Lady Lev─excuse me, Lord Rufin's activity around the realm has resulted in increased awareness of Sharlayan astrology, making it more accepted amongst the public. Interest in the field has become so great that the Holy See can no longer simply brush it under the brume, so they instead allow it, if only so they can keep a close eye on it.
5150TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_111The Athenaeum Astrologicum was founded by Saint Guenriol to serve as a place where astrologians such as myself might learn and perfect methods used to read the stars.
5251TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_112Since the discovery by Adaunel the Younger that the Dravanian Horde were using the relative position of a celestial body we now refer to as the dragon star to determine their attacks on the Holy See, we have ever been seeking to decipher the dragons' code. Theories constructed here are subsequently taken south to the Observatorium where they are put into practice.
5352TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_113We also offer training in Sharlayan astrology─a school of star reading not formally recognized by the Athenaeum, the Observatorium, or the Holy See...but no longer fully opposed by them either. Training is overseen by both Lord Jannequinard and Lord Rufin...but mostly Lord Rufin.
5453TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_070Astrology originated thousands of years ago in Sharlayan, and was introduced to Eorzea when the Sharlayans founded their colony in the Dravanian hinterlands.
5554TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_071It remained a minor field of study, eclipsed by larger ones such as conjury and thaumaturgy, until three centuries ago when an Ishgardian astrologian by the name of Adaunel the Younger discovered that the stars could be used to determine the movements of the Dravanian Horde.
5655TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_072It was then that Ishgardian astrology was born, the focus moving from fortune-telling and fate-scrying to preventing the death of knights by knowing when and where the Horde would arrive.
5756TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_073You will not see an Ishgardian astrologian carrying about a star globe or an astrolabe. You will not see him consulting with a divining deck or gazing into the stars, hoping to draw forth its aether and use it to manipulate fates.
5857TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_074You will not hear talk of the gates of the seven heavens or the chantings of minor spells woven to heal cuts or enmusculate sword arms.
5958TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_075At least, you did not used to. As of late, however, there are many, both low and noble-born, who have begun to take up the discipline. Times are changing, and I know not whether to be happy or scared to have been witness to it all.
6059TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_120Astrology originated thousands of years ago in Sharlayan, and was introduced to Eorzea when the Sharlayans founded their colony in the Dravanian hinterlands.
6160TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_121It remained a minor field of study, eclipsed by larger ones such as conjury and thaumaturgy, until three centuries ago when an Ishgardian astrologian by the name of Adaunel the Younger discovered that the stars could be used to determine the movements of the Dravanian Horde.
6261TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_122It was then that Ishgardian astrology was born, the focus moving from fortune-telling and fate-scrying to preventing the death of knights by knowing when and where the Horde would arrive.
6362TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_123You will not see an Ishgardian astrologian carrying about a star globe or an astrolabe. You will not see him consulting with a divining deck or gazing into the stars, hoping to draw forth its aether and use it to manipulate fates.
6463TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_124You will not hear talk of the gates of the seven heavens or the chantings of minor spells woven to heal cuts or enmusculate sword arms.
6564TEXT_JOBDEFAST_00294_GUILLESTET_000_125At least, you did not used to. As of late, however, there are many, both low and noble-born, who have begun to take up the discipline. Times are changing, and I know not whether to be happy or scared to have been witness to it all.
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