Path

Myriad Reality

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It's usually a life-or-death thing. Are you gonna force a bunch of mages to poison themselves?

@Session

No, that’ll prevent the full scale of results that I can get. Magic is based on a fully living being, even when it comes to ailments such as magic poisoning. If anything, I might set up clinic for awhile to aid those who are afflicted.

Myriad Reality

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Probably. What do you have to gain there?

@Session

To study those who acquire magic poisoning and it’s effects.

Myriad Reality

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Huh? Who’d want to go to our world?

@Session

Have you missed the context of our conversation?

Myriad Reality

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Yeah, we noticed that a lot of mages from other worlds don’t seem to have magic poisoning. But most just end up running out, and a lot of them can’t channel magic either.

@Session

I’ve noticed the latter as well.
*looks at you*
Do you think I’d be able to go to your world at some point?

Myriad Reality

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What if you could spread out the cost of the spell over your whole soul? Like, you probably can’t do something crazy like bring yourself back to life, but maybe you could send someone a message or something.

@Session

Hm, I’d have to visit your world to understand how mana effects the humans who live there. As I have mentioned before, it is rare for mana and magical energy to be that destructive to a human body when it is present. I have seen overexertion that it destroys a being or cripples them.
*looks towards the armory*
But nothing like your friend.

Myriad Reality

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Well, you’re at least making yourself able to live without it. Like a lizard losing its tail.

@Session

Hm.

Myriad Reality

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You’d be cutting off a part of yourself while you’re still alive.

@Session

More of shaping, as you are not exactly removing that part.

Myriad Reality

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What if it uses part of itself as a catalyst? I’ve never seen anyone use a soul like that, but if a mage can use their own body to absorb the poison of magic, why can’t their soul do the same?

@Session

That’s a dangerous move, bodies are designed to be damaged, but souls, as strong as they can be, are more fragile than bodies and any damage has been seen to be permanent and debilitating to the person.
*taps my chin in thought*
But if a soul were to remove a part of itself to make it’s function as a sort of organ to purge and take on specific damage. I suppose that can be done.

Myriad Reality

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Mmmmm, what about the soul? That would be way easier to cast from than the dead body.

@Session

The soul has every capability to cast a spell, but it needs a medium. Even if the soul is strong to do it on it’s own, it was stronger with a body.

Myriad Reality

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What part am I already watching?

@Session

Making spell casting and mana consumption an instinctual part of one’s being. To the point that even if the person dies, the body can continue to utilize magic. And in order to do that, you gotta live in it, breathe it.