Arcanistics Treatise IV
| Arcanistics Treatise IV Written by Teramon and Zeristius |
| "Dialogues on Magic and Metaphysics" Allows you to learn the following Arcanistics abilities: Phantasm Entropy Flare Aether Harmony Beyond the Veil Reading this book grants some Experience. |
Zeristius and Teramon were esteemed mages of the early Nistrian period, whose debates on the nature of existence became the foundation for the "Dialogues" recorded by their students. With the destruction of the Library of Aphaea, many ideas and concepts from lost Axonian texts can now only be explored through scattered mentions and retellings. 750 |
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| “ | Zeristius and Teramon were esteemed mages of the early Nistrian period, whose debates on the nature of existence became the foundation for the "Dialogues" recorded by their students. With the destruction of the Library of Aphaea, many ideas and concepts from lost Axonian texts can now only be explored through scattered mentions and retellings. | „ |
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Teramon. Now for the question at hand: what truly is a phantasm?
Zeristius. No great mystery - it is the impress of your soul, a reflection cast upon the Aether realm.
Teramon. If that be so, then why do I behold in it features I know not as mine own?
Zeristius. Few are granted full knowledge of themselves.
Teramon. Oh, but I have looked upon myself long and well.
Zeristius. Aether is no marble, nor is a phantasm a sculpture.
Teramon. Or perchance a phantasm is a guest in its own right - summoned forth by the magus from beyond the veil?
Zeristius. For a guest, it proves far too obedient.
Teramon. That is no wonder. There are many ways to bind and command beings from beyond.
Zeristius. A phantasm is no being. It is as your shadow - without reason, without flesh, without soul. There is no life in Aether, this much is well known.
Teramon. Well known? By whom? Do you hold it true merely because Theocritos penned it centuries past?
Zeristius. Theocritos was wiser than both of us put together.
Teramon. Mayhaps. Yet he was but a man, and men are prone to err.
Zeristius. Some more often than others, as I now witness.
Teramon. It would do us well to cast all jibes aside, they bring us no nearer to truth. Rather, answer me this: if Aether be a barren void, whence come the spirits? The ones shamans speak to through long, wakeful nights?
Zeristius. The shamans of the Norse are no true magi, but dabblers. Their faith is born of fancy, their gods the fruit of delusion. It ill becomes a learned man to lend credence to such nonsense.
Teramon. And yet it is not easily denied that their chants so closely mirror our own rites. Ah, if only you could see past your hubris...
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