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Intro/Side Story
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Hello i'm Arcolm Light the one the last(or the restart of a growing race) of the Alicorn stalions. You maybe wondering what the first part of my name means. It means 3 things in the native language of Equestria. Lone, discovery, and knowlage. I think the last part can have a bit of a philosohpical meaning to it. I've devoted my entire being to seeking the most obscure of knowlage or lesser known. As long as knowlage exsists i do as well.
However my resent traveling companion an elderlly but strong bodied and willed Zebra by the name of Nortriz seemed to think me a funny sence i'm not really considered a prince or princess. But we got along quite well in our travels around and about. Still even if an Alacorn isn't sopost to attach them selfs to someone they know will never out live them it never seaces to amaze me what wisdom sutch a different race could possess.
Eatch in these next few lines i will describe a few things that happend that i can relate that most likelly is how he aquired sutch wisdom.
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Nortiz was getting anxious. Lack of food and sleep seem to do that to you when you've been trying to find a town, village, or forest to gather supplies that are sorelly needed in long trips sutch as this. As i've only known the land scape to be open or rolling hills. For all the time of me eather flying or walking near by my companion hasn't been as easy on me as it was for him. Its become quite clear we may need to rethink our direction we picked. Not heeding the warnings of the villagers we past not so long ago turning out to be a foalish standered. Still i followed on, stomic quite empty but knowing of the side effects it could have on my own life should i continue without food for longer than what a normal Alicorn body can withstand. So stoping to talk for a bit we desided to make camp for the night knowning that we cannot do much else but hope that we see.
After setting up a magical fire and a tent i was charged with carrying for the first part of our trip. We set to a lingthy if not long descusion. Among many things we mannaged to come up with potrayed to our current situation. Yes sure i may have complained slightlly to see what Nortiz would say. But he never seemed to stray away from a topic once he had a mind to do so.
"It is best to look forward to the many possible futures we have in store rather than think of what we need to deal with now to solve our problems." He would say every time i tried something forth coming and not like me. "My father alwase said this everytime there wasn't enough to go around. But my mother would alwase be sure that things did happen."
"But why do you continue to say sutch things when we already have heard this nearly a dozen times?," I'd say.
The answer would alwase be, "Would you rather dolt on the past or the present and not look forward to a brighter future?"
By that time i'd just give up and eather go about eating(witch was near impossible seeing as our supplies were only emergency rations by now) or falling asleep.
But this one spesific situation beged me to egg him on futher this one time as i was quite annoyed but not quite enough to really make a dision to slit up with him and return back to Canterlot. Knowlage seeking and curosity was alwase the first thing that came to mind before any sort of other emtion though. So i let my tounge slip slightlly even though i knew i should have held it.
"Why keep saying something you know could just as well be false?"
As to Nortiz confused but somewhat understanding facial expression he responded, "I may know very little of what this world has to offer but if you continue on living and experincing what it has to offer.... What else is there without sutch a way of life? I left my tribe because i knew that these sort of travels would allow me insite into sutch things."
I was quite dumb founded by his responce thinking he would just get up and leave me or tell me to pack my things for my return from were i came from. As this played all over my face he continued.
"We go though life not knowing what our pourpous is and we search for this pourpous correct? If you continue to have sutch visions as these then why bother at all? Questions need answers Arcolm. I have my fair share about life its self."
He said this in an almost authoritative tone but just enough for me to realise the importence of what he spoke of. I wasn't pleased with his answer and continued to press further without much thought to what he said. Even if i thought i might be pushing my luck a bit.
"But what about the questions that can't be answered?"
A humorious smile played on his face almost emedatelly, "We can only geuss. Have you seen a leaf blow in the wind and think nothing of it? That is because we know what is is," I was intreeged by this point, my expression of curiousity had already spread like wildfire to every part of my body by this time as he said something i will never forget. "but emotion is something we can only feel for our selfs, it cannot be mesured and is the hardest thing to question when it comes to the experince."
"But shouldn't we try to keep logic in mind when answering questions?"
Nortiz, "Yes, but when all else fails what do you rely on most when your in danger?"
"Instinct?"
Nortiz, "Good. But not everything around you just relys on that same thing. Sometimes logic is best yes but when you can't use your 5 main sences you need to be able to use something else. A long time ago in my homeland some tribes had foals that were blind and deaf and no Zebra could figure out what to do about this problem.... potions, cures, hexs, or other wise. But one was able to over come this and learned from one of the greater healers and shamans of the time. How do you geuss he did that?"
"It would serve to logic that he would be able to use the rest of his/her sences to be able to learn."
Nortiz was a bit taken aback by this answer as it was writen on his face but he let it go and answered, "No, no... this shaman was different from the rest. Anyone that went to see him was blind folded and told to keep there sences focused on healing. Now seeing this little one come to his hut intrested him and tolk it apawn him self to treat him like any other student he'd had prior. Another thing to note is that later on down the line, he told many before his death that the way he taught his aprentices was not by any conventional methoid."
"So.... what your saying is that the shaman tolk this young Zebra in and taught him/her everything he knew without the aid of there sences?! How is that possible!" I was shocked to hear this to say the least.
Nortiz smiled at this and mearlly produced a vile of what he called the gift of sight from his saddle bags. I stared at it with a slight confused look for a few moments.
He explained, after Nortiz let me dolt over what the potion could be, that this is what many of his this shamans students were taught there first year how to make. But the first one was given to them to try to figure out for them selfs. However when he gave this potion and motioned for his newest student to drink it he emedatelly started to work on making a new batch on the spot without instruction. Needless to say the master healer and shaman was very much impressed and continued to teach him as much as he could by placeing different potions in front of them and motioning him to make them even though he could not see or hear him. As time passed it became aparent that he was destaned for something great. But that wasn't realised untill the little one grew to become a master as well.
Nortiz was reading my emotions somehow i could tell even when we first met i could tell that. But for all the things he presented i just wanted to shrug it off untill he staired at me with those same eyes i knew that could peirce into my soul. Needless to say this still unsettled me a bit but i think i was starting to get his point. But i needed to know one more thing.
"What dose this potion accually do asside from making your other sences greater?"
Quicklly Nortiz answered, "It allows you to see things that you normally wouldn't. But not with your eyes or mind preseave. But with your heart and soul. Everything around you has so much Vitta energy that you can feel it. Eatch herb has its own Vitta energy to it as well as your horn. If you know how to feel that around you..... There is so much you can learn. Not even the biggest question can escape the answer you seek for it."
"So what do you intend to use it for?"
Nortiz lowered his head and thought for a moment before saying, "Who really knows that life will throw at me. I have so much left to question that i'm not even sure i need to use it now. I've.... become quite skilled at answering questions you see.....," He rased his head and looked at me with that stare again trying to read my emotions again no doubt not that it would have mattered as i was already unconfertable as it i was from the last time he did it. "I'm not sure if you really feel the same way b-but.... May....be you could help me with a few things. I've alwase found it easyer to answer questions when i have someone that has a mind like yours to compair to my own."
He put away the vile and dug though and pulled out what looked like an small but thick old diary and passed it over to me to look over. As i read i became aware to some effect what he was getting at. And of what he ment by 'answering questions with emtion rather than logical means. Even if he didn't mention it i believe that is what he was trying to say- or... should i say show me. Eather way, he was very well thought with his actions and how he spoke that struck me most of the time we were together. ment to spark a different form of curosity that he was able to gauge and react to.
I handed it back to him and asked, "So you want me to help you....," Fummbleing for the right word a bit i evenually said, "correct this?"
A bit of a funny look passed my compainions face but he relpied, "Correct, wouldn't be the right word...... but yes to an extent."
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Dedication
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I agreed and over the next few months and years of our travels before his timelly death. We were able to make many more "answers" to the questions we came across. I my self have started at my own but for now i think he would like you the reader to know Nortiz was still around. That this is all from the heart and the answers you seek may well lay within.
This is my dedication to him. That i publish what we have shared together for so long and allow his memory and his wisdom(even the wisdom he's collected from others) to spread. Also to allow this book to keep me in high spirits when i feel like i need him to be by my side again.
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Authors note: Still working on this so it might be awhile before it really starts to take shape. The next few chapters will be more of a natra or somewhat poetic depending on what i've writen down over the years. Also i know its a bit cleeshea to use your own name in a story but this is more about the writing and content there of than the characters.