NOVEL NEXT 73.1 - The notes Raehel meant to leave to Archmund Granavale, and some of the ones she didn’t
The ones she meant
Breath exercises:
Magic flows from souls, both living and dead.
The living can change the direction of their magic. The dead extrude it along their instincts and memories.
But only the living breathe, and can redirect their magic through their thoughts.
You can use these exercises to get comfortable cycling magic in both directions.
On the inhale, draw magic from your soul into your body. On the exhale, force it into your Gem of choice.
Do the reverse. On the inhale, draw magic from the Gem into your body. On the inhale, let it return to your soul.
This is significantly harder. But you can manage it! I'm sure.
Getting Skills:
I didn't see how you fought, at least for real, but I saw the results.
People like to believe the tales of snap heroism. The moments where it turns out that the unassuming scholar had a hero's power and heart after all. That if you're just lucky and you get put in danger, you'll pull the exact Skill that you need to save your life out of your ass.
That's not true at all.
You know what happens to someone who skates through life and then, once they're in a moment of crisis, draws on their magic and tries to wing it? They give out one last guttural primal burst of power, a final last stand, that might just barely be enough to get them to victory — and then they collapse, their lives snuffing out like candles in a stiff wind.
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The people who pull this off are the ones like you. The ones who spend hours grinding ineffectively with their magic and their weapons, pouring their power into them for unnoticeable, incremental growth in strength.
Keep practicing how you've been doing so. You're doing it seriously enough for it to work.
The ones she didn't
Awakening:
Ah crap he's actually in a place to ask about Awakening?
I didn't pay attention, I slept through my classes on these
Think think think Raehel you're not a prodigy for nothing
There are at least three levels, maybe four. Maybe.
But.
I only ever knew it as "Awakening" because I passed through the first three totally easily.
To me there's no difference between "First Awakening" and "Third Awakening" and "Awakening" overall. That was purely an academic distinction I learned later.
I'll just tell him something vague and hopefully by the next time we meet up I'll be able to give him a proper lesson.
Yeah right with my luck and his progression he'll have beaten me to it by then.
Let me think. Let me see what I remember.
First Awakening: you can do Skills outside of what the Gem is originally forged/shaped to do. That's what I told him.
Second Awakening: you can use the spells of one Gem through other Gems?
Third Awakening: You can use the shape of one spell with another spell?
Or is it the other way around?
Both are equally intuitive to me. I don't know what normal people consider harder than the other.
I can't tell him this. Not when I don't have any way to help him achieve it.
He was whining that geniuses were bad teachers too. If he finds out I'm never going to live this down.
Oh, who am I kidding. He's practically a genius himself. A lesser noble could spend their whole lifetime never reaching full Attunement — he'll get to Third Awakening by the time he's 14.
Hopefully I can beat him to whatever's after that.
Underlying System:
Why's he asking about that? Does he know something?
Knowledge is the most powerful weapon in the universe. If you know something others don't, you can take advantage of it.
He's not paying for this, and this is one place I'm not willing to spread rumors.
There's far too much on the line.