"Right, so - this - version of magic, I suppose, is based around leading essence from reasonably ordinary objects down certain chalk paths to refine them into what I need them to be. I can't just pick anything, the object has to have some relevant kind of essence. I gathered things for an easy demonstration, and the thing I'm making we'll need for connecting you to the dream world anyway. So. I thought it'd be smart to do it all at once."
She kneels down and starts drawing with a white chalk, only occasionally checking the book. It looks like a pretty simple design.
"So this is really, really easy, for a ritual circle. There isn't a lot of refining necessary, just pulling out what I need from various things I'll be using." She motions to a modest stack of apparent ingredients. It mostly seems to be plants, but there is a clear glass lens and a pouch filled with something. "The different colors of chalk do different things - some of them are naturally the colors they turn out to be, others are color coded to keep it from being confusing. White chalk doesn't do much of anything, except move things." Draw draw draw. The lines don't look random, but there's not an obvious pattern to them. "But even when it just moves things, some essence is lost. The longer the chalk line, the more that is lost. This is what's supposed to happen, because you're trying to get it to a certain power level and type."
More drawing! The chalk is sort of all flowing towards a central place. Saevetei has started having some chalk lines combine - others purposefully meander. She doesn't connect all of them, though. Some are purposefully separate.
"Golden chalk," she explains, once she's apparently done drawing in white, "is - not quite like the other types of chalk. For one, it doesn't lose essence that travels along it, and it doesn't change it at all. For another, it steals from nearby chalk lines. It doesn't need to touch the chalk line, actually, it just needs to be within a certain distance. And that distance changes depending on which type of chalk you're using. Because of this, it's almost completely useless in the actual refinement part of the ritual - in some complicated ones it crops up in tandem with how different chalks have different stealing distances, but that's very very advanced. It's used in the attunement ritual."
She draws in golden chalk, at the center of the... thing.
"But, it is incredibly useful for the final parts of most rituals. It'll just grab everything you funnel into it without losing anything, and from there you finish off the rest of the ritual. Make sense?"
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"Right, so - this - version of magic, I suppose, is based around leading essence from reasonably ordinary objects down certain chalk paths to refine them into what I need them to be. I can't just pick anything, the object has to have some relevant kind of essence. I gathered things for an easy demonstration, and the thing I'm making we'll need for connecting you to the dream world anyway. So. I thought it'd be smart to do it all at once."
She kneels down and starts drawing with a white chalk, only occasionally checking the book. It looks like a pretty simple design.
"So this is really, really easy, for a ritual circle. There isn't a lot of refining necessary, just pulling out what I need from various things I'll be using." She motions to a modest stack of apparent ingredients. It mostly seems to be plants, but there is a clear glass lens and a pouch filled with something. "The different colors of chalk do different things - some of them are naturally the colors they turn out to be, others are color coded to keep it from being confusing. White chalk doesn't do much of anything, except move things." Draw draw draw. The lines don't look random, but there's not an obvious pattern to them. "But even when it just moves things, some essence is lost. The longer the chalk line, the more that is lost. This is what's supposed to happen, because you're trying to get it to a certain power level and type."
More drawing! The chalk is sort of all flowing towards a central place. Saevetei has started having some chalk lines combine - others purposefully meander. She doesn't connect all of them, though. Some are purposefully separate.
"Golden chalk," she explains, once she's apparently done drawing in white, "is - not quite like the other types of chalk. For one, it doesn't lose essence that travels along it, and it doesn't change it at all. For another, it steals from nearby chalk lines. It doesn't need to touch the chalk line, actually, it just needs to be within a certain distance. And that distance changes depending on which type of chalk you're using. Because of this, it's almost completely useless in the actual refinement part of the ritual - in some complicated ones it crops up in tandem with how different chalks have different stealing distances, but that's very very advanced. It's used in the attunement ritual."
She draws in golden chalk, at the center of the... thing.
"But, it is incredibly useful for the final parts of most rituals. It'll just grab everything you funnel into it without losing anything, and from there you finish off the rest of the ritual. Make sense?"