Horn of Valere/Plotting/Past Life

[Thalia]

In her 2nd age life Thalia was primarily a researcher at the collam daan who studied the connections between dreams, memories, and the soul. This culminated in the experiment that led to her own soul being tied to TAR.

That means her life in the 1st Age has to be the one in which she’s released from that binding, in order for it to happen again in the next Age. So I’ve been thinking about the whys and hows.

I’ve included that she studied the Horn of Valere, since that is an obvious link to souls that are bound and also exist in TAR between rebirths. But of course we don’t know how or why or when the horn was created, just that it’s one of those legendary objects that persisted in various myths through the Ages.

The Horn of Valere was known in the Age of Legends, though it was an artifact of an earlier age, but it was never used in the Age of Legends. In part, this was because there wasn’t any need in an Age that knew universal peace, but also it was because what it could do was considered a sort of myth by most people in that Age. No one who is serious spends time trying to test out whether a myth might be real. (Seen anybody sacrificing a white bull to Jupiter lately?) And once the Dark One touched the world, before the War of the Shadow actually began, the Horn was among the items lost, and thought destroyed, in the first rush of mob violence, terrorism etc. So it wasn’t available for use then even had someone wanted to try. It was later recovered and sealed up with the Dragon Banner because along with the Foretellings that made up the Prophecies of the Dragon was one saying that it must be.

So basically Thalia was the weirdo focused on something most people would think was a bunch of rubbish. Well, that fits. I figure her interest was a result of a dream prophecy that she kept to herself due to an expectation of ridicule. In this life she paints prophecies, but they are only revealed to be such after her death. Does anyone mind if I infer she was responsible for the Old Tongue inscription being added to the horn in this Age? I don't think canonically we know when or why it was done, just that it was some time in the 2nd Age. For my purposes it would be before the horn was lost. 

I don’t yet have motivation for the experiment that went wrong, or know exactly what she was trying to do. Possibly it was something she was pursuing during the Collapse. Any ideas?

I read somewhere else that the Horn was created in the Age before the AoL (or possibly before that) which potentially means its creation can tie in with this Age and this life.

I know we have a wiki entry for the norse version of the horn (them being one and the same) but have we done anything IC with it?

Someone brainstorm with me! I’m looking to flesh out the 2nd Age story, and also to see if there’s anything to use for a future FA plot.