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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Oh, almost forgot. So, as I said, David became a Perfect due to his breakthroughs and study of Transmutation. Some of the things he has developed have actually been added to the curriculum and are now studied in 3rd and 4th year. Some of the people of 5th+ year now might have them taught to them as well, just to be up to speed. Here's a summary.

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Conservative Transmutation

Normally, transmutations are performed irrespective of the size, mass, and substances of the prior and final product. However, it appears that when willingly restricting oneself to just moving around substance without any transformation, the spell resolves much faster and has a higher rate of success, if the student consciously performs it as Conservative Transmutation. Also, a perk of Conservative Transmutation is that it is permanent, transmuted objects not reverting to their initial state. Conservative Transmutation itself has three subcategories, from easiest to most difficult:

Permutative Transmutation

Permutative Transmutation exchanges objects and parts with each other.The less "bond" those objects are to each other and to the environment, the easier Permutative Transmutation is (for example, switching the two halves of a sphere with each other is more difficult than switching two free rolling balls on a flat surface). Also, the more similar the two objects are to each other, the easier the transmutation is to perform. Permutative Transmutation is wordless, but requires visualising the shape of the objects being switched with great clarity. Inner complexity of those objects, however, does not matter (a spherical ball of pure aluminium is as easy to permute as an orange of the same radius). Taught in 3rd year.

Rebuilding Transmutation

Rebuilding Transmutation requires previous knowledge and mastery of the Reducto spell. It entails casting a Reductor very slowly while at the same time performing Permutative Transmutation on the object being transmuted. It is very timing-dependent, as the Reductor must not finish or go off too quickly, and as it is going off, the transmuting must be done with quick enough thinking that the disintegrated components of the initial object do not fade away. Unlike Permutative Transmutation, it is much more useful at switching and interweaving bond parts and substances. It can be used either to combine (clash several dusts together to get a glass statue) or cleave (separate iron ore into impure iron and impure graphene, for example). Taught in 4th year.

Base Transmutation

Base Transmutation is a very delicate and intricate form of Conservative Transmutation that involves readying and recasting Reductors several times per minute, followed by Stabiliendum, a special spell researched by David that confines vapors into predetermined boxes that are invisible magical forcefields. Afterwards, Permutative Transmutation is performed on the very atoms of the resulting vapors, repositioning them into new molecules and crystals. Base Transmutation can basically create anything if you're creative enough, patient enough, and have the necessary quantities of all basic elements in the initial object. Base Transmutation is only taught as theory, to practice it, students must come to David directly. It is very rare however that one can get to learn it. In order to even begin to be able to use Base Transmutation effectively, one would need to:

1. Learn and master Permutative Transmutation.
2. Learn and master the Reducto spell.
3. Learn and master Rebuilding Transmutation.
4. Learn and master the Stabiliendum spell.
5. Learn advanced Muggle organic and anorganic chemistry.
6. Research the chemical makeup of many common items, substances and living beings.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Sounds like loads of fun :D.

Rohad Acadamy (School of the Element Wielders)

So Rhea was not really that much of an extremist. Sigh. When push came to shove, people forgot all about things such as compassion for the dead. Not that Olivier thought that was a bad thing. "The genetic mechanism for wielding is a very complicated and long-winded subject, I do not believe we could exhaust it here, and it might be more distracting than anything. I will tell you about the gloves, however." As he said that, he met her gaze, and it seemed like the girl was measuring him up. How funny. Olivier had never relied on charm before, but, thinking about it now, it was a tool in his arsenal. Mmmno... too cringe worthy... he won't go there. "When you wield, there is a constant feedback loop between your body and the environment. It just so happens, because of the multitude of gateways and ki vertices in your palms, that that is the place hardest to control the incoming flow from. In other words, your palms absorb much more energy than needed, in an erratic fashion. When trying to wield, that is, pull at energy with your willpower without a glove, if the technique you're using is very advanced, you run the risk of changing energy while it is in flux within your body, simply because you don't know it's there. This backlash can completely wreck both your nervous system and your ki pathways."

Olivier glanced back for a second, to ensure that Nova was keeping pace. When she assured him that she won't get too far away with a rhetorical, she resumed his explanations. "This is why we have the gloves. Each emblem has a different core, which absorbs ambient energy while we are wielding so as to ensure we don't accidentally wield what is within our bodies. For a lightning wielder, if I remember correctly, the core should be a highly purified natural magnetic stone. For a dark wielder, the core is river amber with a perfectly preserved insect inside - enough so that its soul is trapped therein. They are literally weakening us to make us easier to control. As for how we came about this discovery, it wasn't death by wielding per se, but everyday, mundane death. For thousands of years, our physicians have been chopping off the freshly deceased to better understand how the human body works, and that gave us the mapping of our ki pathways."

Everything Olivier said was true, if slightly incomplete, due to the time constraints. Turning back once more, he saw the idiotic flame wielder, the little girl and the water wielder making their way from behind. Nova expressed her annoyance at this, and he was feeling in kind. Rhiannon seemed strong enough to keep an eye on him, even though Olivier still thought it would've been much more efficient if he just made a contract to be absolutely sure that no shady business was taking place. But, whatever, the others wouldn't let him for some unknown reason (maybe they really had a death wish) so the point was moot. "We will not befriend each other. But alas, I'm not going to strike you down where you're standing. But don't forget, Lao." Saying that, Olivier raised his open, gloveless left palm, making a ball of brilliant black fire appear within it. "One more foolish act and you'll have more to worry about than lack of legs."

Of course, Olivier couldn't actually wield black fire. He was wielding regular fire and then applying dark wielding to the color to make it look legitimate (kind of like food coloring). But whatever he had at hand to avoid a future needless conflict, he'd use. The flame went out as quickly as it was conjured.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Aww, really don't know what to do about Karen :3.

On one hand, David would love to have more people to experiment with. On the other, he'd find religion lame...

Maybe we could do a cat-and-mouse sort of silly chase with each trying to proselytize at the other? :))

Rohad Acadamy (School of the Element Wielders)

I'm sorry, but I don't think I can do this any longer. I just find the situation... extremely unrealistic, to the point that it breaks my suspense of disbelief.

It's basically as if a normal person walking down the street, if suddenly approached by a stranger, punched five times in the face, and then extended a hand in the name of friendship and mutual non-aggression, is supposed to just take it.

And if "playing it safe" is basically equalled to arrogance by most other rp'ers here, I'm really worried about how much idealism will go into this rp going forward. I can imagine two scenarios, both very bad: we'd either end up with a zombie apocalypse like mentality of not really treating NPC's like people and slaughtering them/forgiving their slaughter like it's nothing while holding PC life as sacrosanct, or end up with a total pacifist like mentality where conflict is never the answer, in which case us training to be mercenaries doesn't hold much ground to begin with.

So... sorry, but I'm out.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

WIP. How complex would you like this one to be?

Name: Frederique Dagen
Appearance: Average height bald male teacher. Wears green robes embroidered with golden runes randomly distributed on the sleeves.
Age: 40

Short bio: Dagen is a French wizard that used to work at Beauxbatons as a runes lecturer, and moved to Hogwarts after a place opened up for himself. Runic archaeology was richer and more diverse in Britain, and Dagen was always more an explorer at heart than a teacher. He quickly got along with the Hogwarts crowd, especially getting attached to the inquisitive Ravenclaw.

Personality: Dagen is not the most formal man on the planet. He often talks to his students as peers and does as much as he can to make them enjoy the stuff he teaches as much as he does. He rarely subtracts points for someone's disobedience or absenteeing, but is known to give out very difficult test papers. While teaching, he exudes an aura of joy, empowered every time he grabs hold of a "new" ancient manuscript or recipe to present.

Wand: Fir, dragon heartstring core, stiff, 11 inches
Patronus: lemur

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

I can co-control the Runes teacher if you'd like me to.

Rohad Acadamy (School of the Element Wielders)

@LokiLeo789

M8, can you PM me about the history/exact function of the gauntlets, or can I make stuff up as I go along?

Rohad Acadamy (School of the Element Wielders)

Olivier was glad to see Nova come after him. For a while now, he really did start to view her innocence and plain lucidity as just pleasant traits, not just tools, as hard as it was for him to admit to enjoying another human being's company. He was somewhat surprised, however, when the lightning wielder came along. This was much of a mixed blessing - on one hand, she was as strong as him, which said a lot considering his Contract boost, and also well rested; on the other hand, her arbitrary sense of "morality" might prove to be a hindrance in the future. In the end, he decided the benefits outweighed the cons. That didn't stop him from being a tad ironic, however. "Welcome aboard! As long as you don't find yourself passionately discoursing about the sanctity of life in the middle of battle, I'm sure we'll be able to tolerate one another."

Saying that, he noticed that Nova trailed a bit behind them, taking in the scenery. Space wielders could be weird indeed, but Olivier was not frightened for her now, that he saw the girl having better dodging reflexes than him. He still, however, said to her "Try not to veer off too far back, please, Nova.".

Meanwhile, the lightning wielder seemed to inspect her gauntlets intently. Her question was something that puzzled Olivier too for the longest time, and it was only a year previous that he had found out. "I happen to have quite a good understanding of how we got to gloves, actually." he explained, quickly adding, with a small grin: "It is, however, the case, that I have illegally broken into an archive to find out, which may or may not have required silencing one or two guard. So, would you like me to explain, or would that make you feel complicit in murder?"

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Yes. Damian sounds like the kind of person David would avoid, as I've written him.

I mean, they could also spend time in duel practice, but I don't see them bonding much.