Light of my Life

Hello Friends, Enob Mort here! Travelling Scholar from Zolanberg University.

It has become common knowledge that my exploits took to me a great many places. Yet my heart remained in Zolanberg. My dearest wife and children truly are the light of my life. It was for them I took up adventuring and their guiding light that brought me back home.

Such a fantastic thing light is. A fickle friend to measure, acting as waves in a pond or as little pebbles thrown through the air. I have prided myself on seeing the vastness of the world, the minutia of its microcosm's. Through my writing I have taken readers on adventures of knowledge.

Today let us explore the science of spear fishing. In my youth my family took a vacation to visit the gnomes in The Khraal. At first I was horrendous. Every spear pierced the water above the fish I aimed for. Then it was explained to me that the water bends the light and I must aim below my target.

Having much improved at the art, I returned home and begged my mother to bring me to work with her. Mother worked at the great library, and I was determined to find a book that could help me calculate the perfect trajectory. 

I read a book by Snell who studied how light bends when it passes into a different medium. 

As I expected the angle was important and the measure of how fast light moves through the medium. Turns out light moves slower through water than air, which causes it to bend and fool our eyes.

Over the years I have investigated this phenomenon and learned that almost all peoples in Eberron's history have used this knowledge. It is only the Human race that squabbles over who discovered this phenomenon, ignoring the oral traditions of generations past. 

Perhaps I shall write another book titled the Laws of Refraction that celebrates the knowledge and traditions of non-human races. 

Stay clean friends.