====== Day 1 ====== ''Started journal today. Will not put it to paper, only memorize it. Oral tradition of one. Broken language easier to store and recall. Practice will hone my mind.\\ \\ Researching in library. Always researching. Strength others lack. Committed to gathering my strengths. Committed to mitigating my weaknesses. Research does both. Efficient use of time.\\ \\ [[farne:protagonists:boyce:index|Boyce]] evidences strong fascination with demonology. This will likely complicate his existence, and by extension, my own. Patience and analysis required, no action as of yet.\\ \\ Elementals rarely interact with mortals. There are elemental figureheads. Liaisons? They hold court, but sparsely. Must pursue, must investigate bloodline theory. Must delineate and codify my capabilities before others do. Will not be exploited by others, especially due to my own ignorance. Never again.\\ \\ Am I mortal? Physical appearances and biological processes suggest humanity. Capabilities are expanded beyond mortality, implying otherwise. Am I elemental bound to flesh?\\ \\ Cannot analyze my own physical components. Should be built of complex systems of simple elements. Suspect lifeforce interferes with clarity. Possible to transcend? Require direct analysis of true elemental, determine if lifeforce is confounding variable. Will elemental consider analysis invasive/intrusive?\\ \\ Political interruption. Visiting [[farne:actors:philip_madrigal|dignitary]], Boyce reports pending attack on dignitary's [[farne:actors:hilda_madrigal|daughter]]. Non-involvement preferable but very unlikely. Take initiative, then, steer events proactively to avoid loss of control to circumstance.\\ \\ Hostile numbers, primary incursion vector, and target determined. Creating countermeasures. Employing home terrain advantage. Control all easily-influenced variables. Cover points of entry. Divide and conquer.\\ \\ Lethality of [[farne:protagonists:trent:index|Trent]] at range is formidable. Will strive to exceed that.\\ \\ Fought barehanded with subtle mystic armor. No need to reveal true capabilities to others yet. Do not give unknowns more information than necessary. Combat effectiveness in that manner was low. Will strive to exceed that.\\ \\ True target safe. Successfully gathered large pool of prisoners for interrogation and/or investigation. Trent's raptor quietly following one back to hostile rally point. Consider operation very successful.\\ \\ Will seek compensation from dignitary. Personal power must be expanded. Incident may accelerate timetable.''