Brodie
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Andrew Rowe:
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(view spoiler)[Read AA series so far — maybe Corin’s thinking is rubbing off on me, but when Meltlake was saying she couldn’t progress or access the fabled sapphire level, why didn’t Corin ask if he could use his Arbiter attunement to try to help? Maybe I’m misunderstanding how it works, but I was surprised when he didn’t try, at least to see if anything interesting resulted. No stone left unturned seems to be his motto, ha! (hide spoiler)]
Andrew Rowe
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(view spoiler)[Corin will look into this type of thing further in the future, but there are three main reasons why he didn't try it right away.
First, just pushing mana into her attunement wouldn't have likely made any change, assuming her statement about already meeting the mana requirement was true (and he had no reason to think otherwise).
Second, anything more sophisticated - like actually looking at the composition of her attunement and attempting to tinker with it - would have been extrordinarily risky and beyond his ability to do reliably.
Thirdly, either option would have required consent from Meltlake to tinker with her attunement, which she had not granted. Asking her "hey, can I try to look at how your attunement works and try to modify it" in the middle of that conversation wouldn't have been appropriate from Corin's perspective, given both the nature of their relationship (teacher/student) and her emotional state. Corin is *barely* comfortable giving mana to his own housemates, both due to the requirement of personal contact and the degree of trust implied by that sort of thing. It isn't easy for him to open up to people to the degree necessary to request that kind of thing, as much as his intellectual curiosity might push him in that direction.
He's absolutely going to research her claims, but in his mind, that wasn't the time or place to ask her. (hide spoiler)]
First, just pushing mana into her attunement wouldn't have likely made any change, assuming her statement about already meeting the mana requirement was true (and he had no reason to think otherwise).
Second, anything more sophisticated - like actually looking at the composition of her attunement and attempting to tinker with it - would have been extrordinarily risky and beyond his ability to do reliably.
Thirdly, either option would have required consent from Meltlake to tinker with her attunement, which she had not granted. Asking her "hey, can I try to look at how your attunement works and try to modify it" in the middle of that conversation wouldn't have been appropriate from Corin's perspective, given both the nature of their relationship (teacher/student) and her emotional state. Corin is *barely* comfortable giving mana to his own housemates, both due to the requirement of personal contact and the degree of trust implied by that sort of thing. It isn't easy for him to open up to people to the degree necessary to request that kind of thing, as much as his intellectual curiosity might push him in that direction.
He's absolutely going to research her claims, but in his mind, that wasn't the time or place to ask her. (hide spoiler)]
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