Fun Fact?

When Marian’s brother was sent to the Heptagram to become a sorcerer she promised she would write to him often so that he didn’t feel like he had been abandoned. This had an additional benefit of giving her a chance to work on her penmanship.

She has treated him as something of a personal diary, keeping him filled in on her life. While she wouldn’t necessarily write every day, she would make an effort to write every other day; and if she couldn’t write anything about herself she would write about events and rumors in the news to keep him informed.

Unfortunately, after leaving the Blessed Isle she could no longer send letters out in the fear that she would give away her position (and perhaps some important secrets) to and dragonbloods looking for her. While she stopped sending them, Marian never stopped writing them.

For over five years she has written letters to her brother detailing her life and wondering about his own. She keeps them in a locked trunk in her home (along with other things she is hiding from the eyes of others).

Recently, the party has been on a journey South of Diamond City (the hub city we’re living in) and Marian thought better than to bring the massive trunk along with her. Despite this, she still has been writing letters.

The journey between Diamond City and Harborhead (the destination) took 34 days on foot with an additional several days (I didn’t count, I’m sorry) spent doing various quests and getting lost along the way. Assuming that a piece of parchment is the same weight as a piece of printer paper (approx 4.5 grams), that each letter consists of only a single page and that Marian wrote one letter for each of the 34 days of travel time only (as well as the letter written at the end of my last interaction with somewhere-in-the-dungeon) the overall weight of the current letters she is carrying with her is about 159 grams.

For those of you having trouble turning that number into a real world weight, that is a high end weight for a smartphone.

Of course, I haven’t bothered to try and figure out how much space these letters actually occupy and/or how she is carrying them with her; simply how much they weigh.

But it’s neat right?

EDIT: Ran some more calculations. Assuming Marian wrote a letter every single night for five years she has about 4.25 pounds of letters in the chest which is about a pound heavier than the average weight of a textbook.

Marian has a large textbook of letters in a secret stuff chest.