As if the teeny tiny post count and word count didn't give it away, I am incredibly new to Mizahar. I have been stuffing my brain with as much lore as I can, like a frantic parent trying to tetris those last few bags into the trunk of the car before leaving on vacation, but there are a couple of bits and pieces related to magic in particular that the lore pages can't quite help me on... I could use a little advice from you wise and experienced people!
The thing I'm struggling to wrap my head around at this point is the learning part. That dude over there << already has a few points in (fire) reimancy and glyphing, and he's going to hopefully pick up some shielding eventually to. For learning a new skill like shielding, I know I definitely need to go and find a player or NPC to teach me the basics; but the bit I'm struggling with is, what then?
With reimancy, I know that I can just practice using it and get better. But, if I wanted to mix things up and have another reimancer give him a little tutoring as well, would I need to go out and find another reimancer who has the same element (ie. a pyromancer) to teach me specific things about manipulating fire... or do the same techniques for manipulating res work no matter which element you're using? I know from a game perspective I could just light a whole bunch of candles and camp fires and things in different threads to earn those points, but from a story perspective it might be cool to have that sort of mentoring thing from time to time.
With glyphing on the other hand, that seems like something that's harder to practice on your own. Sure, you can draw the runes over and over like practicing your handwriting, but presumably at some point you need to learn new runes from someone or somewhere. Should I be working on the assumption that I know all of the "letters" already, and am practicing how to string them together into "words"... or do I need to be on the look-out for glyphing mentors, scrolls, etc.
If anyone has any threads where they've done magic practice that they could link so I could read through, that would be an awesome help.
Thanks in advance!