log; welcome to roland, morgan

[hammy]

[Congrats, Morgan. You're... well, you probably have no idea where you are. Judging from the surroundings, though, it seems to be a noble's home, late at night. The hallway is mostly dark, illuminated only slightly by light coming from other rooms, the air is silent—

—and then there sure is a knife flying straight at you.]

Comments

[intendance]

I'm sure it'll be really fun and I'm really excited again--

[OH RIGHT! She brightens, opening her thunder tome and showing him the lettering, which shimmers slightly with the trapped magical power within.

It looks something like this:

]

It does, it does! See?

[hammy]

Ooh!

[He peers at it with an excited expression.]

Is that ancient language or something?

[intendance]

[Morgan just beams, nodding.]

I think from what I remember from my studies, it was used in magical songs first...but now they can use it to trap magic in the books.

[She trails her fingers along the words, so pleased that they're back.]

A lot of old magical texts are written in it too.

[hammy]

Neaaaat. I've never heard of a magic structure being able to do something like that here, though I guess magic traps would be kind of similar...

[...]

Magical songs, though? How does that work?

[intendance]

[She pauses, pursing her lips, clearly going over everything she's learned--and then she sighs and shrugs.]

They were called Galdr, but we don't know very much about them, anymore. The people who used them died out a long time ago.

[oh well, onto more important things--]

I bet there's a way to do something similar with your magic. It's just a matter of trapping it in something that can contain magic for a long time...

[hammy]

Really? Too bad.

[It's Zohra's turn to look deep in thought now, apparently.]

Well, theoretically, magic structures could last forever as long as no one disrupts them... It's how ruins and stuff probably still have traps keeping people out. The problem is more of what, in the context of spirits, 'trapping magic' even means...

[intendance]

It must be similar at base, don't you think? The spirits are the energy source for the magic, in a way, and when we create a new spellbook, it's just trapping the magical energy in the book as well...

Hmm...now I wish I would have studied spell tome creation more...

[hammy]

Well, if you write down the magic circle on each of its pages, then sure, that'd probably work. But having to carry a book at all times and lose a hand for it—well, that puts you at a disadvantaged in close combat, so you're really better off just learning how to cast more quickly.

And that's not really how your tomes work, anyway...

[intendance]

[...hmm. And she blinks and shrugs.]

True enough! Spell tome creation has been a big thing in my world for a really long time, so it's no wonder they're good at it anyway.