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// Entry 129: Sharing Research 
// Story: Samudra's Journal 
// by vren55 
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The kelpie research has been… well a bit disappointing, though, they do have certain insights. I have the feeling they aren’t telling me everything which… is annoying, but pragmatic for their interests. 

Their research has overlapped with ours a lot more than I would have liked. Like us, they’ve been experimenting with different foods to see if anything other than sapients will actually feed them. They’ve also been trying to magically examine their own bodies, but we… well we have no qualms taking certain extreme measures to examine kelpie bodies. They however, do, for understandable reasons.

However, they have had certain insights into why they might need to eat sapients. They, like us have narrowed it down to some kind of… magical means.

But their scientists, well… their few theorists and researchers really - none of them are professionally trained - their researchers have suggested that the kelpies may be missing something from their evolution.

I… scoffed at this theory at first. Why would Yoth make an incomplete monster? Then… I recalled the existing wards and the sealing spell we placed on the Primal God. It’s entirely possible that whatever the kelpies are made of, however they may have designed, Yoth could not completely execute such a design given how restricted she is.

I am surprised that the kelpie researchers and theorists don’t worship Yoth-Atal or think she created them. This is despite the fact that Tethys is a priestess of Yoth-Atal. I’m not sure why Tethys hasn’t spread her damned religion amongst her subjects. Maybe she doesn’t trust Yoth-Atal? Maybe she doesn’t think the kelpies will believe like she does? 

If Tethys doesn’t fully trust the Old Gods, then that would be of an advantage to me. The issue is that well… she herself is a creation of them.

I suppose… that itself is not alone to discount a possible alliance. After all, the sea ponies and deep ponies were - from the very very beginning - created by Yoth-Atal. The Great Creator though was responsible for how we were designed, as she seized us from Yoth-Atal and wiped her influence from us.

However, Tethys is most definitely hiding vital information not only from us, but from her own subjects. Of course, I’ve done that, but… I still wonder how much I can trust her and the kelpies.