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—Welcome, President Calvin!
—Thank you, Elder Caprina, Calvin replied.
I know we gave very little notice, but I believe it's a matter of grave importance for Galvarelli.
—Oh, don't worry about that, Calvin.
Do you mind terribly if I call you Calvin?
I always get a bit flustered trying to figure out whatever other titles people want to be called.
Calvin nodded.
—Wonderful.
Call my Caprina too, there's no need for any of that Elder nonsense.
You're worried because of Yakaterina's warning, right?
—How did you know?
—Calvin, it's my duty here at the Temple to know these things.
Anyway, Yakaterina wrote often before her arrest.
She studied here, you know.
Probably more diligent than any other Hierarch, until she decided to test the freedom's your predecessor gave her.
I felt her death, through the Meadowlark.
I shall miss her passing, although I regret her ambition.
Anyway, the New Voice.
I felt it myself.
A gentle whisper, at first.
But it grew, and I felt it attacking my mind.
I assumed it was a mistake, and tried to follow the source back to whoever created the attack.
However, as I did, I found only hatred and malice at its source.
I was only just able to escape back to myself.
Only fragments of information came to me, the most important of which being the great distance that separated me from the attacker.
But it was too far for me to travel, and I felt it was not my fight to win.
I resolved myself to remain here, helping any who were being afflicted by the terrible insanity the New Voice inflicted upon them.
—Is that something you could help me teach others?
To fight the Voice's hold on the mind?
—I'm afraid not, Calvin.
Not unless we could go to each person, one at a time, giving them centuries of training.
But there's more.
Calvin, do you know about the creation of our kinds?
Calvin shook his head, lightly.
Whatever he did know would be embarrassingly small in front of an Elder.
—It goes back, all the way back.
To the legacy of the Fourth and Fifth Races, Man and Beast.
The Ancestral Voices, which became known as the Great Voices, helped them commune with the powers of the Sentries of old.
But they were not alone.
The Aery was founded and grew, a seed around which the Birds became a society.
The Voice of the Birds had always been hard to hear, but the Birds acting at one gave it great power.
And then, it became obvious that balance was needed.
The Hidden Lands were created, for the Voiced Beasts, Voiced Birds and the Voiced Men, who became the Dwarrowfolk, alone.
The Unvoiced you enjoy so much were kept alone for their own safety, although as you know they thrived.

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Calvin, the Elder is a mountain goat stuck indoors and the dwarrow templars will have nothing better to do.
There's more as well.
This Elder has been warning us about a Curse of some kind.
He was sick for a little while, couldn't say how, but recovered.
Sent a message to the Border towns that if any sick Beasts came through, to send them to him for healing.
She was sick for a little while, couldn't say how, but recovered.
Sent a message to the Border towns that if any sick Beasts came through, to send them to her for healing.
Not sure if it's related, but it was a couple months ago.
Timing lines up.
Anyway, I'm sure he'll have more to say.