un: man's greatest treasure [text]

[reparo]

[While on the boat ride from hell, there's a point in the first night where Hermione decides what the hell, for morale.]

I have mint leaves for anyone who is sea-sick, so please reach out if you would like some. I can float them to your boat. Chewing on peppermint would've been better, but desperate times call for desperate measures.

[There is a pause on her end here, before she writes out the rest:]

For whoever is holding the candles lit, if you are having trouble staying awake or keeping calm, maybe we can exchange stories. Surely if we whisper into our pendants...

Oh, one more thing! Does anyone know how to change the display name on these bloody things?

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[chosenbylight]

[Anduin frowns slightly at that.]

Your username is a saying, you have said.

[Yes, he had read what little public conversation there had been between you and Wrathion.]

Does it mean anything to you? Personally, that is.

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Yes. The school I went to placed the students into Houses, as a sort of way to create community and collaboration, and healthy competition. They're named after the four founders of the school, and there is a Sorting ceremony at the start of your first year there.

There's a magical hat that talks, and recites the key traits of members of each house. So you'll have brave at heart for Gryffindor, just and loyal for Hufflepuff, a ready mind and wit for Ravenclaw, cunning folk for Slytherin.

[Explained to someone strange to Hogwarts, this all sounds Very Bad.]

And the saying, it's wit beyond is man's greatest treasure.

[chosenbylight]

[That's okay, Hermione. He hasn't even attempted to explain the Horde and the Alliance to anyone. Yet.

And talking magical hats is hardly all that strange, when you're from a place like Azeroth. He frowns again as he reads along, nodding once when he is done before he writes his own reply.]

Mine is a code name that... Was used for me in the past.

[He doesn't know whether they still use it now. Honestly SI:7 has probably thought up something equally as insulting and ridiculous.]

I suppose I should just be grateful it isn't something worse.

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Is it chess-related?

[chosenbylight]

I believe that's where they got it from.

The smallest piece, most vulnerable. You can promote it to anything else, provided you can make it across the board to the other side.

[Including the Queen. Or the King, in Anduin's case.]

Someone thought they were being funny, and apparently the person in charge of assigning these usernames agreed with them.

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Well
If I find out a way to change them, I will share it with you, Anduin.