A grand adventure was begining for Xira. Something new and exciting. What better way to start then in front of dusty tomes and the cozy chairs of a library. Yes, the library was not extensive. It had a handful of books on many different subjects. But it was a place of treasured knowledge. The Within library, an underground structure, was furnished comfortably. It's chairs were pleasent to curl up into and it's writing desks far beyond a simple table. It even had ink, journals, blank books and parchment. Everything an aspiring scholar might need.
That evening Xira had down from the shelves everything he could find on magic. Glyphing - The Art of Magical Storage , An Old Man’s Journey in the World of Glyphing, and The Art of Morphing - Djed Shaping Change. If there were more they were being used by others. But for now, he could find himself content. It was a good start for a little project he wanted to start with. He wasn't merely going to read these books; he was going to start a journal on his experiences in magic. After all, he was liable to forget his own speculations and lines of inquiry.
Xira started with a prayer to Qalaya. "Oh goddess of memory, goddess of writing, goddess of the word. I give thanks for the blessing that allows me to learn from others. I beseech thy blessing in memory and thought and to guide my hand in firm and decisive strokes. Let my writings give glory to your name." He ended the prayer with a penstroke of ink in the shape of her symbol and the symbol of Eyris, the goddess of wisdom over a clean sheet of parchment. Proof that he had little experience in worshiping gods and goddesses. Perhaps she might not care for his prayer. Well, without a critic for such a private affair, he was not inclined to change.
Thus he got to the act of beginning his journal. The mageling and amateur scholar supposed that in the end, he would not do a daily journal. That was not the purpose. Perhaps via subject? There was problems with that too. If he learned of more magic and he was in the middle of the writing about something he already knew, would it be fair to start an entry on this new magic? He rummaged in the writing desk and considered its contents. One of the journals was very peculiar and might be a perfect match for him. It was bound leather tome made from a hide dyed a deep purple. The soft leather wrapped around the papery prize and tied itself in a leather cord. If he needed to, he could get the bindings undone and reorder the pages. The rough nature of this journal seemed particularly suited to this and seemed even to be perfect for adding to, what with its size and the wrapped cover easily accommodating any thickness.
With that decided he now had a choice between starting immediately, or doing a bit of research into these other magics. He opened Glyphing - The Art of Magical Storage and began to read.
Xira took up his pen and dipped the nib in an ink well. The dark color glistened in the lamp light. Rather then start in his book, he took notes on what exactly glyphing was on a loose sheaf of parchment.
The notions brought up in the book were interesting. Apparently, Glyphing was a method of creating mystic runes, symbols and sigils that were capable of storing magic such as reimancy. Considering that he already knew Reimancy, this was particularly exciting.
Before any Glyphing was even discussed, a chapter was dedicated and covered the following:
The ancient tongue word "Djed" is perhaps the most important concept to understand when glyphing. Djed is the identity of all things.
For example, given a square. [The book gave several figures of different squares]
Djed is what makes it this particular square. Or perhaps put a different way djed is what makes the idea of "squareness" combined with the idea of "this"."
The book went on to give the Laws of Djed:
It talked about the types of magic:
"There are three forms of magic. All of which use djed differently. All of which can be altered in some way via glyphing.
Personal magic - Magic that uses one's own djed.
World magic - Magic that is the manipulation of the djed around one's self
Divine magic - Little is known about the exact nature of divine magic except that it is bestowed upon mortals and artifacts alike. It does not behave like other magics and seems tuned directly to the gods and goddesses who bestow their mark. It comes either as blessings or as curses, but either creates great ripples across the world.
All of which Xira copied down. Word for word, diagram per diagram. All of which was poorly done, but this was for himself so that did not matter much to the courier. It intrigued him. These theories that were necessary for understanding glyphing. They were basically what Kavala told him when he learned his own magic but a bit more... dry? Kavala made the magic alive, whereas this book explained it in the same way one learned their numbers and letters. It filled in the gaps though, and he felt that he knew more for having not one but two teachers on the subject.
Then he came to the actual Glyphing. "Ah, I see" Xira said to himself, scanning the information. It talked about what a glyph was and what it wasn't. Mainly that it was a tool to channel all the different forms of magic through symbols. There were two main concepts to it, really. Glyphs and Sigils. A glyph was a singular ruin and could be drawn or engraved in any way that was suitable. It was magical though, not simply a symbol, and thus wizards can instinctively know their meaning. Intriguing concept.
A sigil on the other hand was a collection of glyphs that form a function. On this Xira noted there was not much more then basic information and some nonmagical diagrams used as examples. Likely they were purposely incomplete to prevent them from accidentally being used. Xira dutifully sketched these as he copied these notes word for word. If the scholar kept this up, he would have a copy of the book and not simply notes for later use. The thing was that he wrote it out in his own words and his own understandings. Which, like everything about his scholarship was amateurish and crude.
In the end he learned that a focus was a single large glph that stored and released magic.
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Magic, the basics and theory.
He started with what he knew, what Kavala taught.
Reimancy, the Elemental Magic.
He began to write.
That evening Xira had down from the shelves everything he could find on magic. Glyphing - The Art of Magical Storage , An Old Man’s Journey in the World of Glyphing, and The Art of Morphing - Djed Shaping Change. If there were more they were being used by others. But for now, he could find himself content. It was a good start for a little project he wanted to start with. He wasn't merely going to read these books; he was going to start a journal on his experiences in magic. After all, he was liable to forget his own speculations and lines of inquiry.
Xira started with a prayer to Qalaya. "Oh goddess of memory, goddess of writing, goddess of the word. I give thanks for the blessing that allows me to learn from others. I beseech thy blessing in memory and thought and to guide my hand in firm and decisive strokes. Let my writings give glory to your name." He ended the prayer with a penstroke of ink in the shape of her symbol and the symbol of Eyris, the goddess of wisdom over a clean sheet of parchment. Proof that he had little experience in worshiping gods and goddesses. Perhaps she might not care for his prayer. Well, without a critic for such a private affair, he was not inclined to change.
Thus he got to the act of beginning his journal. The mageling and amateur scholar supposed that in the end, he would not do a daily journal. That was not the purpose. Perhaps via subject? There was problems with that too. If he learned of more magic and he was in the middle of the writing about something he already knew, would it be fair to start an entry on this new magic? He rummaged in the writing desk and considered its contents. One of the journals was very peculiar and might be a perfect match for him. It was bound leather tome made from a hide dyed a deep purple. The soft leather wrapped around the papery prize and tied itself in a leather cord. If he needed to, he could get the bindings undone and reorder the pages. The rough nature of this journal seemed particularly suited to this and seemed even to be perfect for adding to, what with its size and the wrapped cover easily accommodating any thickness.
With that decided he now had a choice between starting immediately, or doing a bit of research into these other magics. He opened Glyphing - The Art of Magical Storage and began to read.
Xira took up his pen and dipped the nib in an ink well. The dark color glistened in the lamp light. Rather then start in his book, he took notes on what exactly glyphing was on a loose sheaf of parchment.
The notions brought up in the book were interesting. Apparently, Glyphing was a method of creating mystic runes, symbols and sigils that were capable of storing magic such as reimancy. Considering that he already knew Reimancy, this was particularly exciting.
Before any Glyphing was even discussed, a chapter was dedicated and covered the following:
The ancient tongue word "Djed" is perhaps the most important concept to understand when glyphing. Djed is the identity of all things.
For example, given a square. [The book gave several figures of different squares]
Djed is what makes it this particular square. Or perhaps put a different way djed is what makes the idea of "squareness" combined with the idea of "this"."
The book went on to give the Laws of Djed:
- Djed cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed.
- Some forms of Djed arePurer than others.
- Some transformations are irreversible
It talked about the types of magic:
"There are three forms of magic. All of which use djed differently. All of which can be altered in some way via glyphing.
Personal magic - Magic that uses one's own djed.
World magic - Magic that is the manipulation of the djed around one's self
Divine magic - Little is known about the exact nature of divine magic except that it is bestowed upon mortals and artifacts alike. It does not behave like other magics and seems tuned directly to the gods and goddesses who bestow their mark. It comes either as blessings or as curses, but either creates great ripples across the world.
All of which Xira copied down. Word for word, diagram per diagram. All of which was poorly done, but this was for himself so that did not matter much to the courier. It intrigued him. These theories that were necessary for understanding glyphing. They were basically what Kavala told him when he learned his own magic but a bit more... dry? Kavala made the magic alive, whereas this book explained it in the same way one learned their numbers and letters. It filled in the gaps though, and he felt that he knew more for having not one but two teachers on the subject.
Then he came to the actual Glyphing. "Ah, I see" Xira said to himself, scanning the information. It talked about what a glyph was and what it wasn't. Mainly that it was a tool to channel all the different forms of magic through symbols. There were two main concepts to it, really. Glyphs and Sigils. A glyph was a singular ruin and could be drawn or engraved in any way that was suitable. It was magical though, not simply a symbol, and thus wizards can instinctively know their meaning. Intriguing concept.
A sigil on the other hand was a collection of glyphs that form a function. On this Xira noted there was not much more then basic information and some nonmagical diagrams used as examples. Likely they were purposely incomplete to prevent them from accidentally being used. Xira dutifully sketched these as he copied these notes word for word. If the scholar kept this up, he would have a copy of the book and not simply notes for later use. The thing was that he wrote it out in his own words and his own understandings. Which, like everything about his scholarship was amateurish and crude.
In the end he learned that a focus was a single large glph that stored and released magic.
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Magic, the basics and theory.
He started with what he knew, what Kavala taught.
Reimancy, the Elemental Magic.
He began to write.
I began my journey into magic with the initiation of Reimancy. A fascinating magic. From what I know, the magic can only be passed on from one user to the next. In a way it might be considered hereditary. In the place of Sire and Mother there is only the master and his pupil. In other cases it might be considered infectious. Any mage who desires to learn reimancy will have their master's res, their djed In my case a lovely konti, a master of the magic, gifted me with the magic. It was far more then one could bargin for.
My words
