For the first time in saints know how long Kell gets a question about magic that he has no immediate answer to. Claude's description of his people's innate skills that are not magic, but sound awfully like one resembles nothing he's familiar with. He has to think really hard how to express the difference.
Back home he hunted down every scrap of knowledge about Antari magic that he was able to put his hands on. Quite often through pretty dubious means. And still, what he did end with were a few additional words, one rune and a boatload of conjecture from people writing about a thing they never experienced or witnessed themselves.
"I don't think it is. I mean, similar. It is blood related as in I was born with it, and I need my blood to use it, but I need specific words for specific outcomes and I need to use them consciously."
Kell pauses, hesitating to follow that train of thought. That's all true, but he can't shake the feeling that it doesn't exactly answer the question.
"From how I see it, it's more like other people in my country have access to magic through the elements. Everyone has it to greater or smaller degree." Well... not everyone, but the example of someone who doesn't is too painful for him to share. "They all need to channel it through the elements, the use of those requires focus and training, but not really much more. What I have is a direct access to the source. No intermediaries. More powerful but more dangerous and difficult to use."
sorry it too me so long :(
Back home he hunted down every scrap of knowledge about Antari magic that he was able to put his hands on. Quite often through pretty dubious means. And still, what he did end with were a few additional words, one rune and a boatload of conjecture from people writing about a thing they never experienced or witnessed themselves.
"I don't think it is. I mean, similar. It is blood related as in I was born with it, and I need my blood to use it, but I need specific words for specific outcomes and I need to use them consciously."
Kell pauses, hesitating to follow that train of thought. That's all true, but he can't shake the feeling that it doesn't exactly answer the question.
"From how I see it, it's more like other people in my country have access to magic through the elements. Everyone has it to greater or smaller degree." Well... not everyone, but the example of someone who doesn't is too painful for him to share. "They all need to channel it through the elements, the use of those requires focus and training, but not really much more. What I have is a direct access to the source. No intermediaries. More powerful but more dangerous and difficult to use."