Andrew Rowe
I'm not going to confirm the mana types of foreign attunements outside the books yet.
Getting the combination of mana types that correspond to another attunement does not automatically give the ability to do what another attunement can do. Attunements have functions that go beyond just giving mana types. These functions *can* be performed without that attunement, but it isn't as simple as getting those types of mana - you'd effectively have to figure out how to do those functions manually, rather than having them as "built in" functions of your attunement.
Enchanting, for example, *can* be done without an Enchanter attunement - but it's much more difficult, and most people don't know how. There were already enchanted items in the era before attunements, and there are enchanted items on continents that don't have attunements (like where Keras came from).
Professor Orden has both a Wayfarer attunement and an Enchanter attunement. She only acquired her Enchanter attunement recently, and it's much lower level than her Wayfarer attunement. (She mentions that she has an Enchanter attunement to Corin early on in the first book.)
Getting the combination of mana types that correspond to another attunement does not automatically give the ability to do what another attunement can do. Attunements have functions that go beyond just giving mana types. These functions *can* be performed without that attunement, but it isn't as simple as getting those types of mana - you'd effectively have to figure out how to do those functions manually, rather than having them as "built in" functions of your attunement.
Enchanting, for example, *can* be done without an Enchanter attunement - but it's much more difficult, and most people don't know how. There were already enchanted items in the era before attunements, and there are enchanted items on continents that don't have attunements (like where Keras came from).
Professor Orden has both a Wayfarer attunement and an Enchanter attunement. She only acquired her Enchanter attunement recently, and it's much lower level than her Wayfarer attunement. (She mentions that she has an Enchanter attunement to Corin early on in the first book.)
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