[@The ghost in black]

"I see" Maxim observed the display with some interest "Very good, now you already know you're my only student, but you are also my first Aether student, and I'm going to be honest your form of manipulation seems...strange, not entirely unfamiliar but I feel this will end up being a learning experience for the both of us"

"So" Maxim clapped his hands together "let's start with this: I've never known Aether to have a 'form' I've always known it to be universal, in more ways than one" he held out a hand and a flame sparked in it but that quickly turned into an orb of water, then of dirt, then finally disappearing as a gust of wind to some corner of the room "Now I'd like you to try something like that, try forming aether into a different form. 'earth to fire' if you would"