Chapter 59: Nature Magic
Ancestor Eldrin's Nature Magic legacy was branded directly into his consciousness.
No list of spells — only patterns of magical flow, methods for resonating with nature, and the ancestor's accumulated insights into natural magic.
Natural magic had attributes, trajectories, temperament. It was a living thing.
Like wind curving around obstacles, like water following grooves — it needed resonance and guidance, not brute extraction.
The ancestor's gift was an innate bridge: he could communicate with natural magic directly, could see it flowing. Those were eyes he was born with.
Regulus didn't have those eyes, nor that fortune. But he could perceive a plant's emotions and state — a different sensory system entirely.
Like a blind man mapping an elephant by touch: he couldn't see the whole picture, but he could trace the contours.
That was enough. Eldrin's decades of exploring natural magic — every viable path, every dead end, every trap, every hidden treasure — lay open to him now.
He only needed to walk the same road in his own way.