From d1c11903cff753c294bacb05519d7b3f7fa010d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PatR Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 00:04:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] data.base entry for athame Separate the old generic text for athame from the new quote with an empty attribution line. Reformat both the old and new portions so that they won't their widths won't be so different from each other. --- dat/data.base | 36 +++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base index 3a546a1ae..acbd2db0a 100644 --- a/dat/data.base +++ b/dat/data.base @@ -327,28 +327,30 @@ asmodeus or unhappiness. [ Brewer's Concise Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ] athame - The consecrated ritual knife of a Wiccan initiate (one of - four basic tools, together with the wand, chalice and - pentacle). Traditionally, the athame is a double-edged, - black-handled, cross-hilted dagger of between six and - eighteen inches length. + The consecrated ritual knife of a Wiccan initiate (one of four + basic tools, together with the wand, chalice and pentacle). + Traditionally, the athame is a double-edged, black-handled, + cross-hilted dagger of between six and eighteen inches length. + [] A belt made from a twisted braid of silken threads of gold wound around her waist, and a dark-handled knife rested on a slant at her hip through a loop in the belt. [...] - She arched her brows. "You should know better, dear godchild. You - know I cannot speak what is untrue. During our last encounter I - returned to Faerie with great power and upset vital balances. Those - balances had to be redressed, and your debt was the mechanism that - the Queen chose to employ." - I frowned at her for a minute. "Returned with great power." My eyes - fell to the knife at her waist. "That thing the vampires gave you?" - She rested her fingers lightly on the knife's hilt. "Don't cheapen - it. This athame was no creation of theirs. And it was less a gift - than a trade." - "Amoracchius and that thing are in the same league?" Gulp. My faerie - godmother was dangerous enough without a big-time artifact of magic. + She arched her brows. "You should know better, dear godchild. + You know I cannot speak what is untrue. During our last + encounter I returned to Faerie with great power and upset vital + balances. Those balances had to be redressed, and your debt was + the mechanism that the Queen chose to employ." + I frowned at her for a minute. "Returned with great power." My + eyes fell to the knife at her waist. "That thing the vampires + gave you?" + She rested her fingers lightly on the knife's hilt. "Don't + cheapen it. This athame was no creation of theirs. And it was + less a gift than a trade." + "Amoracchius and that thing are in the same league?" Gulp. My + faerie godmother was dangerous enough without a big-time + artifact of magic. [ Summer Knight, by Jim Butcher ] athen* Athene was the offspring of Zeus, and without a mother. She