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"Not always beautifully." Truebridge murmured, "If the magic invoked is malevolent, the beauty of its form is irrelevant." Much like women really.
Malevolent magic. No, she supposed those wouldn't be beautiful, but hers wasn't violent, so maybe it did have beauty. It totally did.
"Thanks, professor." She turned back to her own rune, about to start a new one, when Sabel asked a question.
SPOILER!!: Truebridge and Sabel
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Tazenhani He nearly jumped to the ceiling when Truebridge spoke as he passed around behind both him and Arya. Thankfully his carved rune was already such a mess of curvy lines and jagged, rough edges that the streak that went through the center of it made no difference. So there was a balance to be had between how focussed one was and how much attention was paid to the rest of the environment for safety reasons.
Blinking, he glanced back at the Professor and then over at Arya. Her explanation brought another question to mind and he turned his eyes back to Truebridge. "Do Runes have to look like near-exact replicates of the ones in the books or can they be like handwriting? Individual based on the caster while retaining their magical properties? Is the effectiveness of the Rune more based on the intent than the accuracy?"
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Con_Stripes "If it's recognizably the right rune then you are fine. The forms have been around since antiquity so there is less room for personal interpretation, particularly on those runes which are quite similar to others. Some prefer to draw them with a longer stave -that is, draw the main vertical lines longer- and others like them shorter. And too, we will cover in another lesson the concept of staveless runes. To be safe, start with your runes as close to the textbook as possible, but as long as it's recognizably the right rune, with vertical and horizontal lines making up it's form, you will be fine. The effectiveness is certainly based more on intent, and yet the form is still important, just as a wand movement is an important element to a spell." Truebridge answered.
His question was interesting, and she listened to Truebridge as he explained why the rune, for the most part, had to retain it's original form. It was interesting to say the least, and though she enjoyed carving runes, she didn't care as much about discussing them, even though she also knew they would eventually get to that during the lesson. So turning away from both men, she worked on another rune, having more success with it than her previous rune.
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Con_Stripes Truebridge looked around. It looked like most students had got the hang of that method.
"The next method does not use wands, so for those of you who are done practicing the Intaglio method, please holster your wand and listen."
Truebridge started with a question,
"Can anyone explain what a 'galdr' is?"
It was when she heard the instructions to holster her wand that her her breaking her concentration and looking towards the front of class. Wand sliding neatly into her wrist holster and being replaced with her quill.
Ah. Her came the discussion. Listening to the discussion that she wasn't well-versed in, she scribbled notes in her journal. Eyes going to Ivory when she gave a response. Totally gonna be study buddies.