By the way, if anyone doesn't know what the last bit of dialogue means, I wrote about this specific phrase a while ago.

[b]Veshi'maru, Vashi'mara:[/b] One of the few surviving phrases of the ancient Omestrian language. It translates to "Come in Darkness, Proceed in Light". In modern times the phrase has been adopted by Omestrian slaves as a signal, its runic form used to denote safe havens and places of safe passage. This phrase is taught by Omestrian slave parents to their young so that they might recognize its meaning if they ever attempted to escape.


Also, there's been mention of something called the Narrow Gates and I just realized I haven't explained what that is!

[b]The Narrow Gates:[/b] For the vast part of human history, the East has been closed off to the empire due in part to the strange, unnatural blizzards that violently dance across the frozen oceans as well as the colossal ice barrier beyond the Meridian (the easternmost point of land where Varya's explorers have ventured). Six years ago, a breakage in the monstrous eastern ice shelf had been predicted by the T'saraen MUSE Academy to occur on the summer of ME 130, the year our story takes place. This breakage would be the first time in history that a passage would open within the shelf. This passage, dubbed the "Narrow Gates" coupled with the advent of modern Hearth Systems which allow steam arks and their crews to survive out in the storms, has allowed the Varyan empire to finally journey eastward through the ice shelf and into the unknown eastern hemisphere.