Today B.P. told us a little about Asheten and his life. He had been a wealthy and influental guild master of the guild of writers.
The expedition has found three ages, that had been in his possession. (One of them beeing Risoahl.)
There is an interesting bit about Asheten: He once had been married to a woman named Naila, who had suddenly gotten ill, and, after some years, had succumbed to the illness. Rumors had gone wild in D’ni about her, some claimed, Asheten had been very jealous about her and accused him of having killed her. There seems to have been an investigation by the maintainers, but they couldn´t find any evidence to proof this accusations.
Asheten had not married again, and died like many other D’ni in the Fall. The expedition had found his remains in what happens to have been his study, and some other remains (maybe his servants) in various other rooms of the mansion.
He had been 298 hahrtee old on the day of the Fall.
Though he had been a writer, no ages written by him are known yet. But if one might speculate – as influential as he was, surely he was a skilled writer.
Coincidentally, Asheten seems to have befriended another fellow guild member with a familiar name – Anesh.
Since they lived both at the same time – the late D’ni era before the fall – and they both were influential guild masters of the same guild, this is only logical.
Another topic: We have succeeded to prepare the cave on Afelahn to the state, where we just could go on with excavating, if, only if we had a bigger excavator in the age.
I think, I should talk to Alex and Noelle. Maybe the Yagi can be convinced to “borrow” us one or two Toosha.
The problem is: We can´t tell them, were we´ll take the Toosha, of course. So, how do we explain this?
And another topic: I think, I´ll keep the watery age I initially was so disappointed with. Yeah, sure, I don´t know what to do with it yet, but it is stable, it is mine, and I wrote it 
So, with the help of the Linguists (Link: http://linguists.bahro.com), I made up a name for it: Ahnoto, which literally means “water place”. It´s not a very elegant translation, I know, but I like the sound of it, and it fits. So, this is the second age written by me 
If any of you, who read my blog, have ideas, what could be done with an age consisting of a big lake with no shores in vicinity, tell me, I´d be interested to hear (or read) your opinions!
The first thing I would suggest regarding Ahnoto would be to anchor some sort of raft or boat at the link-in point. You might be able to carry a Zodiac through the link to bootstrap, but anything larger would probably have to be piece by piece, and the depth of the lake may pose a problem for creating a stable platform.
The height of the link-in point is problematic, too; if you drop ten feet onto an inflatable raft, you’ll likely overturn or even break it, and raising a platform ten feet above waterline seems like a considerable engineering challenge. You might end up keeping open water under link-in and having a ladder to climb up into the boat nearby.
Once you have a base of operations, you can start making proper studies: sounding the depth of the lake, chemical analysis of the water, marine biology, and so forth.
A lot of valuable information, thank you!
The expedition has various boats of different sizes and kinds. The main problem will be, how to anchor it – I have no idea, how deep the lake really is, so I guess I have to find out that first. I´ll take a small sounder with me next time I link to Ahnoto.
For the height of the link in point: If I manage to securely anchor a boat, I could write a linking book to the place the boat is positioned, so I would link in right there.
My concern is, that with a big storm, the boat could break free and be lost, so some kind of more stable platform is a good advice, thanks
If the lake isn´t too deep, I could anchor the platform with, say, three or four anchors – I think, that should be sufficient even when a bigger storm approaches.
So, thanks again, that helped a lot!