<div class="floatleft">(http://i.imgur.com/BmMT7By.jpg)</div>Iva scribes down everything as it occurred. The Blood March Chronicles kept her Servitors and Scriveners busy with the editing and compilation. Her mechanical eyes were not blind to the goings on within Elysium, nor to the rise of Optus. She could always come back to the Bloodlands later, lest she baby them.<br/>She spent a few months among the rising empire, talking with it's great minds. Oh magic was the sport of children with great imagination and weak minds. But They were making inroads into science and rational thinking. Though she found Ma'Niskus a terribly stiff man, and not a great innovator once he'd written his laws. He'd invented them, they were therefore perfect... Or so he thought. She begged to differ of course. Her attending of his lectures made her remember her days studying with the engineering schools of Phobos. But without the wonderful parties. Or the great Collages of Axtos VI, but without the piety and ritual.<br/>She'd engaged him in verbal debate and discourse. A three hour debate that had left him red faced and howling before deciding to deny her the gift of magic. She'd proclaimed she would learn it without him. Then stormed out in a huff.<br/>They let her go of course what damage could a single "irate student" do... Even if she left the social scene aflame before she disappeared into the wastes... right?<br/><br/>She did so enjoy acting.<br/><br/>But as she steamed north there came a growing mountain range. Cutting off her travel overland.<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 13pt;"><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: times new roman;"><em>"well now trickster... cutting off an entire section of the world because you had a bad day? I suppose taking responsibility for your actions is not in your nature. I see no reason for any of these people to suffer for your poor judgement."</em></span></span><br/>She extended a hand, creating several drill machines which began to tear into his new mountains as they grew, creating tunnels, and bringing a bounty of useful metals to the surface for all to share. Hopefully in trade. Then exploded leaving little evidence of their existence.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">effects</div><div class="spoiler_body">Giving those teeth some cavities. -1 to Huehehahol</div></div>