Sorano walked into the forest, stretching lazily as she looked around the path she had once walked along nearly every day. Before they had left for Tetsukazu, she and Hoshi had lived in a wooden cabin in the East Forest, having not enough money to rent out a place in Fairy Hills. It had been a much more luxurious place back then, and didn’t really fit their needs, anyways. Nowadays, she did have an apartment in the dorms, but spent most of her nights sleeping on the office couch – it was easier than walking back and forth all the time. Even so, she did occasionally miss the calm and quiet of their forest home, but she was back again with a different purpose. Rina, the older mage whom she’d worked with on a previous job wanted to learn solid script, and there wasn’t any reason to say no. Sorano knew that many stronger mages in guilds would have several mentees who they would tutor in magic and fighting, and she herself had mentored Corliss for a brief amount of time before the girl had disappeared. However, this would be the first time she ever taught someone her own magic. Trying to think back to when Speculo had taught her mirror magic, she considered how she should go about this process with Rina.
Rina was a nature-based requip mage, so she doubted the girl had much experience with magics as conceptual as letter magic. Requip was a straightforward magic meant for battle, and from what she’d seen from Hoshi, nature magic was something that depended highly on a strong will and love for nature. Focus was an important part in casting spells with the exceed, but solid script would require a different type of focus. Seeing Rina there, she waved cordially, glancing at the research books she’d brought along. Solid script was in fact a quite common magic among smaller mages, those who didn’t have as much capacity as professional mages did due to the easiness to adapt to the casting routines and to come up with small, simple spells, so there were plenty of books out there about it. However, was solid script really the best choice for Rina? Letter magic came in all shapes and forms, just like requip magic, and all stemmed from a similar root.
They would walk on into the East Forest, settling down in a sunny clearing. The air still held some slight winter chill, but it was warming up nicely.
“So you want to learn letter magic, right?” Sorano took one of the books Rina held, a guide on the family of magics. “First, let’s take a look at the more theoretical stuff: What sort of magic do you think would fit your needs the best?”She pointed at the first magic with a finger.
“Runic magic. This magic takes longer to cast due to the complicated symbols needed, but have powerful and long-lasting effects. They’re great for duration attacks, protection spells, or causing effects upon your enemies.” Flipping a page, she gestured at something else.
“Solid script, which is what I use, is a sort of creation magic as well, able to create things through writing words to describe them, then using visualization and confidence to produce your desired results. It’s easy to learn and cast basic spells with, but getting into the advanced aspects which include writing in very specific details of a spell or very detailed visualization and conceptualization – even design, can be difficult to do in a short period of time.” Another page turn.
“Oriental letter magic is similar to solid script, but involves writing out pre-set spells in oriental lettering. It doesn’t require visualization or design like solid script, but it is harder to memorize the spells if you don’t speak Oriental. There is also less variety, as spells are difficult to customize.”
“Written hex magic is an interesting one as well – this one is a holder magic that involves a magically imbued pad of paper. If you write a word on it, instead of having to visualize or put down details, the pad does that for you and all you have to do is throw the sheet of paper to cast a spell.” Turning to the last page in the section, she pointed at the last standard letter magic.
“And this is Oratory, something different from the rest in the sense that you don’t have to write, but speak instead. It’s sort of an illusory spell. You speak certain rhymes or chants to cast spells, or speak in a certain way to paint an illusion for your enemies. Good for people who are good at memorization or are very articulate.”Sorano closed the book with a soft sigh. She’d tried most of them before, and even used slight aspects of Oratory in her own magic. They had their own advantages – each and every one of them, but she had settled down long ago with solid script. That would not be changing anytime soon. Original letter magics could be created as well, but usually they required basic knowledge of some standard letter magic before they could be developed.
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