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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gregor" data-source="post: 5716878" data-attributes="member: 11751">********North Harbour - Lyceum"Yes, your dreams." says Theal.  "They are incredibly interesting to me as a source of your link to the weave.  I have some thoughts on this, but first, I believe we must continue to discuss the arcane.  I can see that you seek knowledge, so let us expand your mind."For the next few hours, Theal takes you through additional basics of arcane study.  He explains how a caster must combine certain materials and effects, such as specific material components, somatic gesturing and specific phrases to achieve an arcane result.  He instructs that the combination of these things assists in focusing our link to the weave and manipulating it.  He also warns that when one's ability to speak or move is hampered, so too is his link to the weave.  For sorcerers, he elaborates, it is generally unnecessary to utilize material components, for their bodies and minds are the material component.  It is wizards and priests that must focus on these components in order to emulate our natural link.Theal then returns to the schools of magic and takes you through a number of tests.  He casts minor cantrips on you from specific schools and asks you to describe their feeling, their aura, their smell and other obscure criteria.  He explains that you must understand the linkages between these feelings and the schools of magic in order to comprehend them more accurately.  Finally it is you casting cantrips on Theal or inanimate objects.  He guides you through minor castings of what is within your repitoire.  He asks you similar questions related to sensations, images and thoughts that you experience when you touch the weave.  As the sun begins to set, you slump on a bench in fatigue.  You feel as if your mind has been beaten and bruised and your thoughts are slow to raise to the murky surface of your consciousness.  Never before have you cast spells this frequently or been required to concentrate on them, create associations with what you're learning and then discuss it in detail.When your schooling for the day is complete, Theal pats you on the shoulder and says: "You did well today Lars.  It is not easy to begin to learn these things in a formal setting.  Tomorrow we shall continue with a discussion of the sub-schools that exist below the eight I explained today and how we can define the spells you know from within those deeper categories.  We shall, as you also learned today, focus on enchantment, transmutation and illusion predominantly for that is where your talents are the strongest.  Go home and rest."As you are walking out of the chamber, Theal adds one further statement: "Oh and Lars, I have something I would like you to do tonight.  I would like you to try and control your own dreams.  If your link indeed stems from them, then you should have the power to shape them.  It may take time, but you may be surprised at what you can learn.  Good night."  </blockquote>

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