Arcanistics Treatise II
| Arcanistics Treatise II Written by Rector Johann Flanius |
| "Fundamentals of Planar Geometry, Presented in Eleven Lectures" Allows you to learn the following Arcanistics abilities: Schism Aether Shield Time Echo Transcendental Anchoring Reading this book grants some Experience. |
Any scholarly work attempting to describe the laws of the Astral sooner or later turns to metaphors - often creative and exuberant. For example, the author of this particular text describes the Aether realm as simultaneously a mirror, a restless sea, and a multifaceted crystal. 300 |
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| “ | Any scholarly work attempting to describe the laws of the Astral sooner or later turns to metaphors - often creative and exuberant. For example, the author of this particular text describes the Aether realm as simultaneously a mirror, a restless sea, and a multifaceted crystal. | „ |
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O Aether! The laws governing this seething force are so unlike anything we are accustomed to that their unpredictability elicits no surprise. The Aether realm is a twisted mirror, its countless facets reflecting fragmented, flickering glimpses of myriad dimensions.
Still, the images emerging within Aether are no mere illusions - they are as real as the world around us, assuming, of course, our world is the "real" one. The tides of Aether reflect our reality just as our reality echoes the furious storms within this churning sea of primordial essence.
Such reflections are unstable, mutable - roiling and gleaming with unfathomable colors. Even the keenest intelligence is powerless before their tumult. No mortal mind can comprehend them in full.
And yet, glimpses of the familiar may sometimes emerge within the warped shapes - upon finding the right points of contact, it is possible to bend Aether to one's will and force it to breach the veil.
Woe to anyone who attempts this frivolously or out of idle curiosity. It takes only a fleeting moment for Aether to turn from ally and aegis into a force of terrifying chaos and ruin.
Albeit, some sorcerers desire exactly that: to seize the raw, primal force and transform it into more familiar elemental forms - fire, frost, lightning... But we, the arcanists, walk a different path - a source of both our strength and our weakness.
Where other schools stand tall, armed with the heritage of Axonian savants, we must crawl forward almost blindly: most ancient writings on the true nature of Aether have been swallowed by time. All we can do is dutifully study the few spells that have survived to this day, and continue our research into this capricious, fickle monarch of all existence.
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