What was Auristics? Clyde looked back at her, a bit puzzled why she would ask that now, as it had nothing to do with Magecrafting. At least, directly. It was a good tool for a experienced Magecrafter, but since she had him directing her in the process, she did not need to directly be able to do it. "I can't really answer that, since I would see an objects aura, in a different way than you would. It simply is a magic that lets you see an object or persons aura, which can be used in various ways... To sense it as if you were doing so with your own senses, without using those senses... To tell things about the thing, to more easily notice and detect magic... Many different uses, all dependent on the mage doing it. Auristics is all about interpretation, and trying to understand the aura of something. Or someone. The longer you focus on the one aura, the better you understand it." Clyde paused for a moment, thinking about what he had just said, and darting his eyes back, thinking about the staff. He wondered how Amelia would sense the aura of the staff. Differently? Or similarly... But before he could continue onward, and break from his line of thought, Amelia was asking yet another question. One Clyde had said he would answer earlier, but had not yet had a chance to, because he had been answering other questions of Amelia. Finally having collected what he needed, he had picked up a pair of clamps, a spool of wire, a another pouch of powder, similar to the earlier used one. "No, it won't take on one of the 5 enchantments, or perhaps it does, and I am simply unsure of which one... Certainly not magic or gnosis or intelligence... Which leaves structural or behavioral... But at the same time, I would not really consider it either of those, it is more an exception to the rule, a special "branch" of Magecrafting of its own." Clyde grinned slightly as he said branch, at his own play on words, since this staff, and likely many others, were made of wood, and often branches of wood. Heading back to the pedestal, he handed Amelia the powder, and set the wire down on the edge of the pedestal. Then he lifted up each end of the staff in turn, applying the clamps to it, first one end, then the other. He tightened them down a bit with a few turns, so that the staff would not tumble out, or slip loose. "So, how it works is thus. And mind you, this is my own theory on how it works, I am not completely certain... But then, my theories often don't fall to far from the truth, so likely it is true, or close enough to it. Anyways, do you know of d-wire?" Clyde paused for a moment, shrugged, predicting that Amelia would not have heard of it, and then continued on to explain what it was to her. "D-wire is a unrelated magic, not created via Magecrafting, instead via higher level Glyphing. It is specially created to make it very very good at transporting djed and magic across it. A magical effect or djed goes in one end, and then flows along the wire and out the other. Simple enough, yes?" "Now, my theory is that by this process of Magecrafting, we are actually imbibing the magic carrying and holding abilities of the d-wire, into the staff itself, making it a powerful and strong conduit of magic. And perhaps more later on. Of course, this is not all it does, but by some mechanism of the Magecrafting, it turns into a actual Magic Staff by definition." Clyde motioned for her to return with the bag of powder, this one full of a very fine mineral powder, and would take out a pinch when she same over, and begin to rub it all over the staff. "Help me coat this entire thing, and then we can go on to the next step. Adding the wire." |