"Well, you still have time to decide, just think it over and do which you think will best help you. But you can attack just as easily with fire as with earth. Fireballs are nice, but so are spikes of earth. My next element i get i am going for earth myself. But to each to his own, it decides what you want to do with it."
Watching, he nodded as Bob did as asked. Now they had a nice dry spot to do some glyphing on. And it seemed that Bob was finally getting good at controlling his res through reimancy.
"Well the first thing you should now is that in itself glyphing does nothing. It only helps to manipulate other magics, and to influence them. It can help to redirect it, to focus it, and to defend from it, or even as I showed you it can store magic. The simplest application is to draw a focus on you which helps you to extrude res from that point, such as the palms of your hands."
"A glyph is a single rune symbol. Usually this will look differently for each person, but is still recognizable by other glyphers. You can combine these glyphs into making sigils, which each has its own unique task."
"A focus is a single large glyph, which can store magic, and helps to draw djed to it. A barrier is a series of glyphs usually as a circle, that surrounds something else, such as a focus.This both blocks and keeps magic from escaping from inside, or in the focus. A trigger is something which activates or deactivates another sigil, such as the barrier to release the effect held in the focus."
Each of these parts would be spaced to allow Bob to hear it, and for it to sink in, hopefully so that Bob would retain it all. Taking out some chalk, Clyde handed it to Bob.
"Okay now, I want you to draw something simple. Draw a few simple glyphs, and then draw a focus, barrier, and a trigger. I have shown you them before when I made those glyphs to capture my fireball. But I will do so once more as an example. After I do it, you can try."
Drawing a large focus with some chalk, he carefully put it out. Then he surrounded it with a barrier, with words such as restrict, withhold, and deflect. He used words of ancient tongue for his glyphs, but since Bob did not know this language he could not do the same exactly. He would have to use his own unique way. Finally he drew a small trigger, and drew in common the effect to start it, Magic come out and expel your power. |
