Blood & Besiegement by Jeremy Dwyer

Author:Jeremy Dwyer [Dwyer, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-09-17T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19: Voice and Summons

In the northeastern region of the continent of Waderav, in the castle of Count Perceval, his wife, the Countess Genevieve, was busy with her studies, mostly at night. She had learned to greatly purify the waters of the Trerada Ocean which she drank. She understood their chemistry at a fine level, and could quantify the results which occurred. She knew that the health and beauty that it conferred upon the drinker could be described as a mathematical function. The function she was able to derive took as inputs a measure of the person’s innate potential and the water’s purity – both of which were one (1) at perfection and zero (0) at total deficit – and produced as output the magnitude of the resultant benefit. This function grew proportional to the base ten (10) logarithm of the reciprocal of one (1) minus the product of the fourth (4th) powers of the potential and purity values. There was a leading coefficient which she estimated at around nine point three eight (9.38). This coefficient depended on the scale of how she measured the result, and the base of the logarithm, of course, but her model was determine empirically from her experiments of measuring the changes in her own appearance.

Genevieve, however, believed that there needed to be some refinements in her model to account for the interactions with the effects of the other ocean waters. The entire model might need to be reworked, if, for example, a drinker of one of the ocean waters applied their power and a drinker of another one of the ocean waters applied their power, to achieve an additive effect. An example that occurred to her would be if a drinker of the Lujladia Ocean waters were to shine a light upon a face to highlight its beauty. Then, the resultant beauty that an observer saw would be a function, also, of the potential of the Lujladia Ocean water drinker, and the purity of those waters – those would have to be additional inputs to a new and more complex function that may not be logarithmic or the inputs may occur at some power other than four (4). There was a universe of mathematical possibilities, and it would take a very long time to discover them all. Introducing a third ocean into the mix – such as the effect of eating higher quality foods produced by someone who drank the waters of the Gradaken Ocean – would introduce additional potential and purity variables and mathematical complexity.

Genevieve struggled to come up with more efficient experimental techniques than simply trying several combinations of purity and potential. She couldn’t modify her own potential, so she measured that of several young women who were her housekeepers and cooks, who had various levels of attractiveness. She had them drink the waters of the Trerada Ocean of the same purity and, from those, measured the results to estimate their potentials for the use of them. Many of them scored higher

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