Travels of an Ancient Magickian

THOUGHTS REACHING BACK TWO MILLENNIA
AN INCOMPLETE TRANSLATION FROM ANCIENT ARAMAIC
It has been some time [...] I now have the means to understand the Faelang tablet. The text still feels quite alien to my eyes, and I imagine it will take a great deal of study to parse all of the knowledge [...]
Kallikrates had his many doubts about my work, but now that I see my toils realised [...] he would share my enthusiasm. I miss him dearly when I have such joyous news to share.
[...] Jasim is leading yet another expedition into the Worlds Beyond, and I have been invited to follow. It seems he wishes for the aid of [...] not merely to sell me what treasures he finds. They are departing from very near Sana'a, [...] I may find signs of my Kallikrates there. [...] unsure of the answer I will give Jasim, but it would, as well, be opportune to [...]
[...] I tire of the way Jasim coddles me, and of the way he belittles his assistants. Their knowledge of the Worlds Beyond [...] adamant refusal to accept their suggestions [...] our detriment. [...] though I have not remained behind.
In fact, I sit now on the edge of a great precipice in the Worlds Beyond. Jasim told me that I was mad for attempting such an excursion alone, [...] he underestimates my knowledge of the magickal arts. [...] perhaps I have overestimated it.
I have only just begun my reading [...] I see its descriptions of the Worlds as vastly more than what I can capture in my own tongue. There is a clarity of intention [...] detailed specificity that gives such colour to their descriptions. There is no room for interpretation here [...] I feel exactly as its author did, and in turn I begin to see this land for all the potential they saw. [...] great, untapped magick [...] I command very little of it.
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