Lirael (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
keyandstar) wrote2012-12-12 06:47 pm
keyandstar) wrote2012-12-12 06:47 pm
002, written, Charter nerd having thoughts on magic
ooc: If you guys aren't already aware, I'm kind of an idiot. Hence I must request a minor retcon. Due to brain failure I've been operating along the line of thinking that goes Game setting = Nothing Works in terms of character powers when tagging. Hence I've probably mentioned in a couple of places that Lirael can't sense Death or the Charter as she normally would. Well, since her sister has erected a working Charter Stone that's obviously wrong and I must've been writing with my brain half shut down or something.
SO, basically I just ask all of you to completely ignore anything I've said that seems to mean that Lirael's power's aren't quite working because they are. That would be all, and now to the actual post!
[ Lirael contemplated making a video or at least a voice message for this, since it would probably give a more outgoing impression, but she just couldn't bring herself to do it. It was just so much easier to fall back to her old habit of writing notes. ]
The Old Kingdom, where I'm from, is separated from another land called Ancelstierre by a great wall. I've never been there myself but I've heard that Charter Magic doesn't work there.
Now I'm wondering, since Sabriel could raise a Charter Stone here, if the same could be done over there and if in that case magic would begin to work.
I've only ever known two kinds of magic to exist. Charter Magic and Free Magic. Free Magic is dangerous and shouldn't be used, though sometimes it's necessary. As I understand it the work of the Abhorsen requires it. That work being putting the risen dead back to rest.
It seems, however, as if there are a lot of other kinds of magic here, and I'd love to hear about them. Even, perhaps and if possible, learn how to use them myself.
I also know that death is a very different experience here than where I'm from, and that makes me wonder if it's also different from what I know in the places others have been taken from. If you don't know the facts I'd be just as pleased to hear of legends or beliefs.
Death as I know it is a cold and grey place with a great river running through it. It's divided into nine precincts separated by gates, and it's full of dead trying to make their way back to Life. What lies beyond the ninth Gate is a mystery, but if one passes beyond that there is no returning.
So, if there is magic where you're from, what is it like and do you think I could learn how to use it, and what do you know of what happens after death in your world?
SO, basically I just ask all of you to completely ignore anything I've said that seems to mean that Lirael's power's aren't quite working because they are. That would be all, and now to the actual post!
[ Lirael contemplated making a video or at least a voice message for this, since it would probably give a more outgoing impression, but she just couldn't bring herself to do it. It was just so much easier to fall back to her old habit of writing notes. ]
The Old Kingdom, where I'm from, is separated from another land called Ancelstierre by a great wall. I've never been there myself but I've heard that Charter Magic doesn't work there.
Now I'm wondering, since Sabriel could raise a Charter Stone here, if the same could be done over there and if in that case magic would begin to work.
I've only ever known two kinds of magic to exist. Charter Magic and Free Magic. Free Magic is dangerous and shouldn't be used, though sometimes it's necessary. As I understand it the work of the Abhorsen requires it. That work being putting the risen dead back to rest.
It seems, however, as if there are a lot of other kinds of magic here, and I'd love to hear about them. Even, perhaps and if possible, learn how to use them myself.
I also know that death is a very different experience here than where I'm from, and that makes me wonder if it's also different from what I know in the places others have been taken from. If you don't know the facts I'd be just as pleased to hear of legends or beliefs.
Death as I know it is a cold and grey place with a great river running through it. It's divided into nine precincts separated by gates, and it's full of dead trying to make their way back to Life. What lies beyond the ninth Gate is a mystery, but if one passes beyond that there is no returning.
So, if there is magic where you're from, what is it like and do you think I could learn how to use it, and what do you know of what happens after death in your world?
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[Here, she'll switch it to video just to prove her point. 'sup? Say hello to the colorful, cartoon pegasus.]
And you're lookin' at the coolest pegasus around!
[Emphasis on her wings here. She'll give 'em a flap.]
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Well then.
If she could get used to a talking dog then she can handle this too!
Say hello to the shy, pale girl who is painfully awkward at all times. ]
So it's a world full of talking ponies, and some of them have wings, and those are pegasus...es?
[ Is that the right way to say it in plural? ]
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[She shrugs, seemingly unphased by this whole situation.]
As for unicorns, swap the wings for a horn, and you get the basic idea.
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Where does the horn sit?
[ She's pretty sure she could guess, but it's better to just ask, right? ]
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[She taps her forehead with a hoof.]
It's straight, kinda twisted looking, with a nice, sharp tip. Looks kinda like a drill, I guess.
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[ Because ponies don't really seem to have quite the right shape for it. ]
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[It's highly tempting to give a demonstration, though setting up the journal's camera to view it juuust right might be tricky.]
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[ Look, you made the Queen of Awkward smile a little! ]
Maybe I'll get to see it some time.
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[Heh, heh. If she can make even awkward folks smile, then that's a job well done in her book.]
But it wouldn't be hard to see, anyway. I'm out pulling stunts in the sky practically every day.
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I'll be keeping an eye out for you.