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Myriad Reality

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Usually ends in nothing, injury, or even death.

@Path

But they don't bother learning why.

Myriad Reality

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Very true, and that thought process made them too cautious to stray from their list.

@Path

The worst is when they think that they’ve made some major breakthrough when all they did was smash two spells together with the same symmetry. A, we’ve known about that for thousands of years, B, try doing that with anything else and see how far you get.

Myriad Reality

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Had. Three total in my lifetime that I call successful, the rest dropped out as they saw me to be too difficult. It was more that they could not perceive further ahead of them. Stuck in their restrictive ways from home and how they perceive magic to be.
*runes reveal themselves and glow on the metal of the staff and the grain of the wood begins to glow*

@Path

You know what they say about spellcasters thinking in lists. Nobody great ever approached magic like that without some kind of endless mana supply to help them.

Myriad Reality

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I’ve always said the biggest hindrance to many upcoming generations is their creativity and imagination with magic. That is a prime example that I have seen too many times.
*a complex looking metal and wood staff blips into my hand and I mumble*
It’s also why I take on very few students…

@Path

You have students? That sounds... well, awful.

Myriad Reality

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A lot of the problems arise from them finding their affinity towards a certain kind and disregarding all other kinds.

@Path

Most of them also don’t even bother learning what their spells are actually doing under the surface. All they do is memorize cast after cast and suddenly can’t figure out why their “great idea for a transmutation” is fizzling out.

Myriad Reality

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That’s what the normal seems to be.

@Path

Most mages don’t know that though. It gets frustrating sometimes!

Myriad Reality

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It’s quite common for combat spells to be made like that.

@Path

Usually we start with basic elemental or functional types and spiral out from there.

Myriad Reality

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Not all of them are designed to destroy and kill. To be honest, there are not much of a true variety of those as many are sub-spells of a base one.

@Path

We do the same thing in our world for plenty of spells. Not that you don’t have a ton that are made from scratch too.

Myriad Reality

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No, it’s just large.

@Path

Larger than all your spells?

Myriad Reality

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*walks to another door that leads to a massive plain*
This is where I practice and test my more destructive spells.

@Path

Do you have protection charms on it?