Chapter 17 - The languages of magic
In theory, if I take the taser aria and just switch lightning for water, it would create water on my hand.
But that’s a theory I haven’t been able to test yet. And in practice, it might be more complicated than that.
Because the taser aria doesn’t only summon electrical energy, it summons it directly in the outer layer of my hand.
I’m not sure if I conjure water that way, it will end up outside of the skin or right inside that outer layer, forming a potentially painful blister.
And I don’t want to use the same burst function of the lightning bolt aria, because it has already proven too inefficient.
I use a stick to do some drawings on the dirt, creating a rudimentary workflow to better visualize the way the aria works.
It looks like the words in the ancient language were created with mana efficiency in mind.
They are quite hard to pronounce correctly, and it’s very easy to misfire the arias by using the wrong vowel tonality. But still, they provide a strong bang for their buck.
The languages used by the people living in the world are geared towards communication.
They use a lot more words to convey meaning because we use both text, subtext, and corporal language to communicate effectively.
Magic doesn’t have access to subtext and only limited access to corporal language. Thus, the instructions need to be precise and unambiguous.