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“Will imbuing can be learned, but there’s only one type of mage that has no natural affinities alongside a naturally occurring will imbuing talent.” Hugh could feel the other two apprentices staring at him. “You, Hugh, are what is known as a warlock.”
“Most warlocks have minuscule mana reservoirs. They don’t need them- they get power through their contracts. Hugh, however, with his massive mana reservoir, offers some… interesting possibilities.”
Hugh was pretty sure that the amount of books they were each carrying already counted as physical training.
“It seems that the faculty here thought my brother had exaggerated, that my problems were easily solved by anyone not a foolish barbarian. When it proved otherwise, they turned away rather than face their own shortcomings.
its victims take hours to die inside its stomach, unable to escape, although their screams make it out just fine.
Chelys Mot, the Earthshaker: Chelys Mot is a turtle of immense size, with a shell almost a hundred feet across. He has the ability to control earth and stone, and is even capable of generating localized earthquakes. He is short-tempered and dislikes being disturbed, but can be reasoned or bargained with if one is polite. He generally moves around on the northern edge of the Endless Erg.
Hugh thought people that friendly were exhausting.
“The simplest answer is that without attunements,” Alustin said, “you can only provide slightly attuned mana to a spell, not the deeply attuned mana that spellforms for deep attunements need. You can use unattuned mana to light tinder for a campfire, but you can’t throw a fireball with it.”
“You never give up,” Talia said. “You haven’t failed until you do.”
“I bet you have an affinity for sheer idiocy,” Talia said.
planar affinity. The most basic use of it is creating extradimensional spaces.”
