Adding variables with no internal explanation...it sounded more and more like experimentation to Dorian, a scholar familiar with the concept of adding subtle changes to study output. It was...well disconcerting put too fine a point on it, but which building had this power may make sense if they simply looking into what they could be used for perhaps...or he might have been letting his mind run away from him while he tried to accept where they all were.

"I'll need to think on this more in depth, perhaps once I've had a look at this library." The sorts of guides they found there may shed some like on what their captors hoped to accomplish, after all.