Hello, everyone—
[ Luna has brought news for the second time this month. She looks entirely at ease, as one might when they’ve completed a huge undertaking. Not to mention quite exciting, given the bright, beaming grin on her face.
She holds something in her hands, which she promptly lifts up to show the camera: a blue and gold leather-bound book, engraved with the title: FANTASTIC BEASTS AND HOW TO HELP THEM. ]I... wrote a book—!
[ The toil of a little over a year. Ever since her own run in with Corruption and descent into Beasthood last April, where she publicly announced both her sincerest of apologies and her determination to do something about what she’d done. This is the result: she wrote a book. ]It’s a compendium, or directory of sorts, about Beasthood. More specifically about the kinds of Beasts that both Sleepers and natives turn into, detailing their abilities and how best to approach them.
[ She’s heavily drawn inspiration from her former mentor and very dear friend Newt Scamander. She likes to believe he’d be very proud of her, Theseus too. ]It also lists and explains the ways in which Beasts can be brought back to themselves, to be cured of their Beasthood. It isn’t an exhaustive list, nor is the directory itself— I’ve been working on a way around that.
I’ve charmed all the copies of the books with a specific spell. It’s called a Protean Charm.
[ Thank you, Hermione Granger. ] I hold the ‘master copy’ of the books, and when I make edits into it — all the copies will be magically updated. So that way, everyone has up-to-date information. So if anyone who’s experienced Beasthood isn’t featured in here, I can add your entry in.
I wanted to do something that means we don’t have to kill Beasts on sight just because they’re Beasts. Sleepers are afforded the ability of resurrection, but natives aren’t. And even if we do have that gift—
[ There’s a pause, and she frowns a little. It’s not a very easy thing to explain, really. Difficult to put into words, the true impacts that death has on oneself that go beyond the times where she’d be ill with ‘death flu’, or when she’d forgotten herself and her magic. Not to mention the effect of death on others. ] dying in the Waking World is not an experience to be taken lightly.
I... wanted to make something good out of all the harm I caused last year.
They will be free to everyone, of course. I couldn’t possibly take a payment for them. I know that exactly isn’t a very good strategy in terms of book sales, but I don’t think that’s quite the point...
[ ... Well, anyway. ]They’ll be available from Ritual Gig, or from myself personally. I’m also going to try to… see if I can distribute them amongst the Hunters.
[ There’s the tiniest of winces. ] Although I’m not quite sure how that might go.
[ Hunters and Arcane Scholars have a... not-so-straight forward relationship, after all. ]And if anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer them.
[ ooc page for the book is here! ]