In the Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented Alphabetically By The Metal Horn Unicorns, readers are briefly introduced to Alumna, the Aluminum Horned Unicorn.
Alumna is one of the metal horn unicorns featured in the Journey To Osm collection of books by Sybrina Durant.
Alumna, the rose-red aluminum horned unicorn is a member of the Metal Horn Unicorn tribe from Unimaise. She is the most learned of all the metal-horned unicorns. She constantly studies historical documents and she has made contact with an entity known as Numen, the Moon-Star Spirit, through a crystal ball. This communication with the Numen has given her the reputation of oracle of the tribe. She misses most of what he tries to relay to her because of what seems to be a bad connection with a lot of static. One thing she learns is that she is a member of the Navigator Herd of the Metal Horned Unicorn Tribe from Unimaise. The herd crest symbol for the navigator herd is a large crystal ball mounted on an aluminum tripod made of three unicorns rearing up on their hind legs.
All navigator unicorn horns are aluminum. Alumna’s is ruby encrusted. In the past, navigators communicated with the Numen through crystal orbs in order to determine the best courses for the jump ships. Alumna feels it is her duty to reveal the Numen’s words to the other unicorns so she has let them know that the Metal Horn Unicorns traveled across interstellar space from Unimaise to MarBryn in a jump ship on a mission of magical outreach. Due to unforeseen complications with the jump drive, they have been stranded in their invisible jump ship, the Halstable, for over a century. The cloaking device of the Halstable has kept the unicorns who stay inside, or very near, safe from predators for many years. Those who venture too far only have the protection of their metal horn magic and that does not always keep them from harm.
Alumna has never been to Unimaise. None of the surviving unicorns have been but the Moon-Star Spirit has told her it is the only truly safe place for unicorns and that his driving mission is to get them back to their home planet. All of the unicorns in the Halstable were all born in MarBryn after the jump ship was stranded there. MarBryn was once a pleasant place to call home but no longer. Many unicorns lost their lives in the Great Unicorn Massacre perpetrated by a powerful and evil sorcerer named Magh. The remaining metal horn unicorns feel an intense urgency to leave now that Magh is determined to kill every last unicorn to possess the magic of their horns for himself.
The Numen once told Alumna of a chosen one, a unicorn with a horn of osmium who would lead the Metal Horn Unicorns back to their homeland of Unimaise, ending their exile in MarBryn. Alumna shared this knowledge with the tribe but no osmium horned unicorn has yet been born. In fact, no more metal horned unicorns have been born in over twenty years. The only birth was one with a hide covered horn and no magic. After that, no one believed the tribe could be saved except for Alumna.
As the years passed, she felt the weight of the prophecy growing heavier upon her shoulders. Alumna has a secret that she must keep from the other unicorns but she hopes that, one day, that secret will guide in the savior of the Metal Horn unicorns who will lead the tribe safely back to Unimaise.
Alumna’s secret is a burden that has weighed heavily upon her for years. Through the orb, Numen provided Alumna with information to create a map that would take the Metal Horn unicorns on a journey from the Halstable, all the way across MarBryn to Muzika Woods. With her maps and innate navigational skills, Alumna will attempt to lead her tribe through treacherous terrain across MarBryn to the best of her abilities. She hopes that her experience in working with the magical orb and the Numen will prove invaluable during their journey and will allow them to safely pass by dangers that lurk in the shadows of much MarBryn’s lands. She will do her best to guide her tribe to Muzika Woods where the Numen has promised the chosen one will merge with the Moon-Star Spirit and lead them all to Unimaise.
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