spellfeather | Appointments

[ Hey did you spot any mega evolution stones in those by any chance. ]

Mm... I've got a question though. How do you know if one's, uhm, mind is good enough? To use magic I mean... Do you think there's a way to find out?

[Thankfully, no.]

At first, it's really hard to tell, but, uh, at the same time, it really depends on what kind of magic you're dealing with. [Since Luceti magic is different from what she knows...]

Yeah? [ Ehh. ] I guess there's different types... But I really want to be able to learn some. Helios said he'll teach me, but we don't know if I'll be able to.

You more than likely will actually! With a lot of dedication, hard work, and practice, anyone can learn how to use magic!

You think so? Helios told me about someone who couldn't learn it -- because they didn't have magic in their world, I think?

[ pokémon don't really count do they?? ]

I don't see why the lack of magic in one's world would make it so they couldn't learn how to use someone else's. [She thinks this over for a moment.] Unless the magic has some specific rules about that, but I can't say for certain.

Even so! That doesn't mean you can't branch out and try to learn magic from a bunch of other different worlds.

Hmm... I guess you're right. Yeah. [ Then... ] Do you think I could try learning some of your magic? I only really want to learn how to heal. But it's really important to me.

W-well, uh, I myself don't really know any healing spells, and I'm not a very good teacher...so learning healing magic is something I can't exactly teach without having to learn myself. [Oh archmages.]

But if you really do want to learn the magic from my world, I must warn you, it's very dangerous.

I don't care if it's dangerous. I can learn to control it, right? [ Anyway. ] What I want to learn are spells I can use to help my pokémon. They're the better fighters.

If I knew a spell to make them faster.. Snorlax could be invincible! Venusaur too!

You're looking into support spells then. Alright. But, I must warn you of the dangers of the arcane if you plan on wielding it. They're quite severe Red, and I will not sugar coat them. [The dangers are what usually turns away most people from following the path of a mage, and Karis isn't sure whether or not Red will stick with it.]

You ready to hear what they are?

[ They're... something other than simply magic? There's a pause, just because he wasn't expecting the question. But his voice doesn't waver much. ]

Alright.

[She clears her throat, as this is going to be a long one...]

Arcane energy, the fuel of magic, is a flowing force that has three severe consequences when used excessively, two of which will negatively impact the body greatly due to the energy passing through their bodies. Certain races can only take a certain amount of arcane energy passing through them, if it becomes greater than what they can handle, then severe aneurysms can occur. These aneurysms will either leave a subject dead due to how powerful the bursting of one's blood vessels is, or they will lose certain functions of their body. Those that survive are put into a state in which they are unable to speak full sentences, control certain bodily functions, or even feed themselves.

The second consequence results after prolonged exposure to magic, enough to where one becomes addicted to the flow of energy. People in this state have sought out anything, mainly drugs though, to enhance the arcane energy, or travel to places where the energy is highly concentrated. These actions can easily lead to the first consequence.

The last one is not something we exactly have to worry about in Luceti, but I'm listing it off anyway. In my world, if a large group of individuals abuse magic over a very long period of time, rifts between the main source of arcane energy, the arcane plane, tear open and pour into our plane of existence, the material plane. With larger rifts come creatures of the arcane, elementals. They are violent, almost mindless, as all they seem to want to do is feed off the energy of others and bring about destruction wherever they go.

These are the risks the mages of my world face when using magic, and should always be taken seriously.

[ He listens carefully without any interruption, thinking at first he might have to ask what an aneurysm is until she explains about the blood and gets the idea. By the end, it's hard not to think it's all about bad stuff, magic. But this is just the risks as Karis said...

It feels like there's a lot of questions to be asked. ]

...Is this all the extreme? Like, if I abused it, or tried to do too much at once on my pokémon. Could it be okay as long as I tried to be careful?

[ He wouldn't want to cause his pokémon any harm, and if this all meant that his pokémon could end up being at risk... ]

Yes, it is the extreme. [But even so...] If you try to be careful and are careful, you should be fine, and since you wanted to look into support and healing spells, then the risk won't be as great for you as you think.

From what I understand, most support spells have a duration on them as soon as they are cast, and you don't need to keep it channeled. It's up, and it's done, no more energy needs to be flowing, and depending on how skilled you are, the duration of a spell could potentially last quite a long time.

With healing? I couldn't say, though I've heard from one of the medics on the ship I work on say that healing magic doesn't take as much energy to use as attack magic.

[ That makes all the bad stuff sound better. Or -- further away from what he wants to accomplish with magic. Still, of course, it was a possibility - and just the extreme, as Karis agreed.

Maybe it would be okay. ]

I don't want to learn attack magic. It might be good if I did since then I could defend myself better... but I'm a trainer first. I want to be able to support my pokémon -- that's what being a trainer is about. They fight, and I'm the one that helps them fight. We help each other.

And I'd want to spend my time finding ways to help them more. I want us to be an unbeatable team.

Well, you are very well free to learn whichever spells you wish, and if you are dead set on learning to use magic, I will be willing to teach you. Although, I'm not the greatest of instructors, and with what you're mainly interested in I don't have much of a hand on...it may take awhile. However, I will still try my best to teach you as much as I can.

If you'll teach me... I want to learn. I don't care how long it takes. If this was back home, I wouldn't ever have the chance to learn something like this.

But we're in a war. We need every advantage we can get.

[He's very right about that, Karis herself has been training even harder after the draft, and if she can assist Red, then they might have a better chance.] Very well. When do you wish to begin training?

Whenever you're okay with it. How much training do you think we should do? Once a week? Every day?

Every day. Though the first part is mostly going to be learning more about magic first, and how to meditate. Once you have that down, you will mostly end up meditating at least once a day. Meditation helps you tap into your inner energy, and every week, we'll check to see how much you progress by attempting to conjure the most basic of spells.

Okay... I go to the farm in the morning, then I have lessons with Saori after lunch. Me and my pokémon usually go to the battle dome sometime after that, but I'll come and see you whenever you want.

Is meditation to you like when you sit really still with your eyes closed? [ Coolest description of meditation right there. ]

That actually works out perfectly, as I'm in the battle dome as well in the afternoon! So we can just do our training there, I'll be sure to bring the necessary supplies as well. [Just a stack of giant tomes should do...]

And yeah, it is, but it's more than just that of course, but I'll save the explanation of how it works internally when the training officially starts.

Alright. Should we start tomorrow? Or the day after. You probably want to prepare, right?

The day after sounds good, and yeah, I'll definitely want to prepare. [She's got quite a bit of work to do.] It'll take me quite awhile to get everything ready.

Sorry -- but thank you. I've gotten really good at listening, so I'll do my best. Is there anything you think I can do for you in return?

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