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Cardonald's Desert Laboratory

Summary

Cardonald’s desert laboratory is an ancient automation and sentient-item site tied to Valenth Cardonald, Brutor Ruby Eye, Enwi, Silver, prison control, and the wider Elemental Prisons network.

Silver, a female automaton, said she had been there 601 years and 907 years without the mistress.
The mistress died in a spell accident; Silver cleaned her up, and the laboratory remained oddly clean after later damage.
Rubyeye had visited 47 times, last around 908 years earlier, and requested a book copy after viewing it at Aquaria.
Rubyeye’s connection to the laboratory includes Valenth Cardonald as his best friend, the mage who wanted to craft herself into an object and continue in that form.
The site contained white roses, art and statues of Hephaestos’s defeat, portraits of Enwi, Joy, Browning, Rubyeye, Heurhall, and a sphinx, and the note Victorious but too late it was still the Dunewand.
Behind Garadul’s picture was a golden band with a smashed ruby resembling Eno’s ring, possibly sentient or hurt.
The library contained Everard Browning automation manuals and Cardonal’s Celestial Instructions for creating sentient jewellery; sentient items required a soul.
The laboratory held practice enchanted items and a copper astrolabe with a red gem through which Cardonal spoke after 907 years.
Cardonal provided or could provide teleport-circle codes for prisons, labs, and Grand Towers levels, including factory, control room, and meeting level.
Later Cardenald and Rubyeye returned to Cardenald’s lab to study and gather supplies.

Who sent the message I'm coming to get you, and whose handwriting was it?
What book did Rubyeye receive from Aquaria, and why did it return two days before the mistress died?
Was Silver only a practice vessel, and what exactly happened when Cardonal took over her construct?