[OUR SWEET NAHIDA. I think she should go to Fontaine, as a treat.]
Well, I travel to Port Ormos all the time. And the desert, of course. But outside of Sumeru... I went to Inazuma as a student once. We were doing a unit on international building techniques, so we went to study the differences in architectural styles between worshipers of the Raiden Shogun and those of the Orobashi.[...] Apparently, my father took me to Natlan once, but I was too young to remember.
[i'll be real with you pixi after eight weeks of murder and trials she is not going to want to touch fontaine and its justice system with a ten-foot pole]
Fascinating...
[maybe she should take a course that would take her outside of sumeru's borders to study? ...on second thought, no. by the time she makes it out of here, she'll have been away from sumeru long enough. (also, the professors would probably have a heart attack if the dendro archon enrolled in their classes.)]
Do you remember much about the architecture in Inazuma, Kaveh? Could you tell me about it?
[they are both Sad, and she can't do anything to fix the things making them so, but... maybe she can at least provide kaveh with something else to focus his attention on for the moment.]
[That's fair. Kaveh never goes to Fontaine anyway for sad reasons.
But honestly--he'll take this. He thinks she could do with the distraction too, to be honest.]
Well, they use different wood than we do. Primarily maple, but Aralia is more common on Watatsumi Island. Inazumans have to take into account the salt in the air from the ocean, and their buildings are mostly concentrated on air flow--they use rice paper to keep the temperature more even. They also use a supple wood called Yumemiru and red paint for their shrine structures, as it's a common belief that red wards off evil and bad luck.
[maybe they should have used more red paint when decorating their warehouse...
no! no, she is not letting her thoughts trend that way. it's silly - painting the warehouse red wouldn't have made yang guifei choose someone else. nahida doesn't think that "luck" was really involved with it here at all.]
I see... being so close to the ocean would pose its own challenges, that's true. They have to do things a little bit differently in Port Ormos as well, don't they? Especially closer to the docks... though the further inland you get, the fewer precautions they'd have to take to keep the salt in the air from affecting the structures.
[Honestly, that makes sense, though. Kaveh isn't superstitious, per se, but it's hard not to blame bad luck when things go so wrong, so quickly, so often.]
They do, but for Port Ormos, we had the large tree to work with. That's where I took my inspiration for the structural renovations. Inazuma has to take space into account as well, but that's because they're working with narrow, mountainous islands, rather than inlets. They also have to use special sealants to protect the wood from the moisture in the air once its been turned into proper lumber, but they use a different formula than we do.
They must use ingredients that are local to them, right? Because importing the ingredients for the sealant would be very difficult for something that's used on so wide a scale...
We were studying already finished structures back then. But that was shortly before the Raiden Shogun declared her Vision Hunt decree and closed the country--later, we got to compare illustrations of the monument before and after it had been renovated to house confiscated visions.
I see... that must have been a very interesting experience.
[the vision hunt decree, though... her brows furrow a little at that. it's not really her place to judge how another archon runs their country, considering she let the sages run hers for so long, but it's still hard to wrap her mind around an archon confiscating visions from their people like that.]
Hmm... of all the architecture you've seen on your travels, which was the most inspiring?
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well. she has not, because she was not alive before "losing her memory," but it's not like she knows that.]
...what other trips have you taken?
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Well, I travel to Port Ormos all the time. And the desert, of course. But outside of Sumeru... I went to Inazuma as a student once. We were doing a unit on international building techniques, so we went to study the differences in architectural styles between worshipers of the Raiden Shogun and those of the Orobashi.[...] Apparently, my father took me to Natlan once, but I was too young to remember.
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Fascinating...
[maybe she should take a course that would take her outside of sumeru's borders to study? ...on second thought, no. by the time she makes it out of here, she'll have been away from sumeru long enough. (also, the professors would probably have a heart attack if the dendro archon enrolled in their classes.)]
Do you remember much about the architecture in Inazuma, Kaveh? Could you tell me about it?
[they are both Sad, and she can't do anything to fix the things making them so, but... maybe she can at least provide kaveh with something else to focus his attention on for the moment.]
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But honestly--he'll take this. He thinks she could do with the distraction too, to be honest.]
Well, they use different wood than we do. Primarily maple, but Aralia is more common on Watatsumi Island. Inazumans have to take into account the salt in the air from the ocean, and their buildings are mostly concentrated on air flow--they use rice paper to keep the temperature more even. They also use a supple wood called Yumemiru and red paint for their shrine structures, as it's a common belief that red wards off evil and bad luck.
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no! no, she is not letting her thoughts trend that way. it's silly - painting the warehouse red wouldn't have made yang guifei choose someone else. nahida doesn't think that "luck" was really involved with it here at all.]
I see... being so close to the ocean would pose its own challenges, that's true. They have to do things a little bit differently in Port Ormos as well, don't they? Especially closer to the docks... though the further inland you get, the fewer precautions they'd have to take to keep the salt in the air from affecting the structures.
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They do, but for Port Ormos, we had the large tree to work with. That's where I took my inspiration for the structural renovations. Inazuma has to take space into account as well, but that's because they're working with narrow, mountainous islands, rather than inlets. They also have to use special sealants to protect the wood from the moisture in the air once its been turned into proper lumber, but they use a different formula than we do.
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They must use ingredients that are local to them, right? Because importing the ingredients for the sealant would be very difficult for something that's used on so wide a scale...
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[the vision hunt decree, though... her brows furrow a little at that. it's not really her place to judge how another archon runs their country, considering she let the sages run hers for so long, but it's still hard to wrap her mind around an archon confiscating visions from their people like that.]
Hmm... of all the architecture you've seen on your travels, which was the most inspiring?