- Lilith: hese can’t possibly be all the spells.
- Ars: By all means, all you’ll ever need.
- Lilith: I’m not so sure about that.
- Ars: What?
- Lilith: Hmmmm.
- Lilith: YES!
- Lilith: We’re done.
- Ars: What?
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The Red Hall 029
└ posted on Friday, 6 January 2012, by Novil
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This series is really starting to feel interesting. Just like when reading a new novel, it always takes a little while to get going.
Hm… Ars doesn’t have all the spells? Yet Lilith finds what she needs? Something’s definitely up here…
By the way, Lilith just freaking owns. I can see why everybody’s chasing her around.
@ Zack the Kajillionth:
I was wondering what she meant too. Although I don’t think anything’s up. She probably just knows there are more spells out there that can be useful in their own unique ways that just aren’t on the shelf. Although now I’m curious as to why it seems that each wand does a different spell. Wouldn’t that make being a magic-user kind of pointless? There’s a reason one learns spells and how to use them. If you’re going to have spells that each have their own unique wand, the only thing you really need to know is what spells do what and what they are called. Otherwise, the spells are pretty much the equivalent of potions and such except they are in wands rather than potion bottles, meaning being a wizard or witch is something anybody can do.
Alright, so I’m confused. Is Ars a male or a female? And what is he/she anyway?
@ illeatyourself:
I think Ars is some form of imp, but is genderless. He is just assigned gender-specific pronoun because it makes everything easier. Of course, this is all speculation. I expect if it’s important, we’ll find out later.
That took, like, 3 seconds.
Up next – Ars looks on in disbelief as Lilith takes down all the spells with less wands than Ars’ answer? And with at least one DIFFERENT wand?
We’ll see!
The only other question is, how well does Lilith’s skill translate to the battlefield?
she did it again that’s why i have a crush on her ^^
illeatyourself wrote:
Not really… person which does not see magic wouldnt be able to identify wand… let alone even recognizing what enemy uses. Sure you could have wand of fireballs which is relatively universal… but that also has limited amount of uses (at very least in given time before it recharges itself)
Elitepastafa wrote:
Draconic races usually have defined gender (even though you can not always see that). And generaly they are polygamous
to make them interesting.
Hot damn, I can’t wait to see what she comes up with.
Ars has all the spells. All of them.
Seriously, the question is going to be in the next few pages. When they complete their exams, will THEY experience the golem attack scenario? Or was that a one-off?
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I don’t mind Lilith acing the magic tests… it’s just the equivalent of a student who studied ahead and hands in all the correct answers after less than half the allocated time. This is a school situation: We’ve seen Ilias acing the fight test and have reason to believe that Sandril would usually have defeated him. Why should Lilith make herself smaller, so that the boys would get all the glory?
illeatyourself wrote:
Technically, *all* drivers on the road has the same control surfaces in a car (more or less), so they ought to be exactly the same drivers – Yet try and put a normal person in a Formula 1 Car, and I promise you, there’s a difference.
Besides, I think the wands are more a convenience thing in this comics universe, and all the spells can be cast without the wands (how else would they have gotten into the wands in the first place, after all). So here’s my idea on how potions, wands and spells are generally thought to work out, in this comics universe :
A Potion would be magic in solid form + “shaped spell” + liquid to keep the two mixed together, so once they meet a living medium – aka a person with little or even no training, they activate. Magic in solid form could be like a salt or powdery form, so you could lay it out in patterns to shape the spell, and then combine the two with a soluble liquid .. like, say, water or wine.
A Wand would probably need the a living medium to actively infuse it with magic, to make it work, But the spell itself would be shaped into the wand – thus both having magic ability and training would be required, but the requirements would likely be less, and the preperation time is almost nil. Also, highly complex spells would become much easier to actually use in a stressed environment.
A Spell would need to be both shaped and infused by a living medium, to make it work – Obviously, this requires even more training and skill, since you would have to shape and infuse it as you go along. It would be even more accident prone, or simply end up doing nothing. It would also require some time to prepare the spell if it requires ingredients, or specifick research. The upside though, is that if you’re good enough, the flexibility of an “off the cuff” spell, would let you do pretty much anything you could imagine.
Offcourse, all of this is just guesswork and hypothesis … when it all comes down to it, the author has the final word on stuff like this.
Guessing is fun though.
My guess is wands acting in tandem, cast one after the other, or a spell combo that works from those two wands and creates something else that nulls all barriers.
You know, I’m liking Lilith more and more as we go on. With this sort of potential, it also means that something to balance must appear. What’s in store for her, or for those around her?
From the setting of Gaia so far, it looks like this is a further test of spell identification. The wands are set to single spells for difficulty, and any spells so far out of the confines of the test wouldn’t have wands here. I like it, especially since this seems to be lilith’s strong point…a prodigy even
@ illeatyourself:
Ars is an imp, whish the two guys mentioned earlier. They also said Ars was male when mentioning the all seeing eye he wears around his neck.
That’s cool and all, but Ilias and his sidekick took those golems down hard. All Lilth has done is stab light a couple times and be adorkable.
Call me when she turns a demon inside out.
Wait! Maybe she’s going to combine the wands? That would be cool.
illeatyourself wrote:
I think judging on other fantasy stuff, and on the spells used earlier these are probably specialist wands pre-charged with a spell, or only able to do one type of spell (i.e you don’t need to know the spell, just put your magic in and use). Perhaps there are other types of wand – like fire-spell boosting, and perhaps some wands can hold multiple spells.
Just a guess though. I think @Sheela was pretty spot on.
The boys got a mediocre score using 6 spells. She only has two, which for a normal magician would probably be nowhere near enough.
I think Ars is about to be amazed again.
Something tells me these wands might work sort of like how magic staffs work in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Sure, a total magic noob can use them to cast spells, but they can’t identify the spells on sight, and the wand’s magic will drain out very quickly. But if a highly skilled user picks it up, they can cast the spell even more effectively and the drain on the wand’s reserves is reduced or even eliminated, and using the wand leaves the magic user free to use their own magic for different spells.
Allison wrote:
Like I speculated in an earlier comic, I suspect there is a simple solution to this problem. I have trouble believing that every magic user would need multiple wands on them at all times to deal with any particular ward they might run across. Instead a more universal answer would be needed.
X and Y shipper wrote:
Perfect magic user would simply examine the “lines of power are entagled” “colors of power are mixed”, in this case how is bluestream entangled and simply pressed on weakspot of the know. (every spell has one)
Lilith is probably extremly gifted in ability to sense nuances of those spells. Perhaps she has idea on how to press on weakspot of this spell by some other form of attack. (It is fairly possible that some of the defence buffs do not work very well combined)
If you have read Knaak´s Dragonrealm I would compare her to Sharrisa Zeree.
She broke reality! >:O
@ Sheela:
I have a theory. Maybe these wands are spell specific. A wand for an individual task. Because of which, the user can’taccidentally miss-cast a spell leading to a different magika occurring. For example, you don’t want to have a fireball spell becoming a flamethrower spell, (it happens trust me). I guess later on an accomplished spell caster will be entrusted with a universal wand/staff, an item which can harness base magic, and with the users instruction, can form that base magic into whatever the user needs. but seeing as their being tested, and are not yet recognised as accomplished spell-casters, they are using specific-magika wands.
learning magic means that you can use any spell at any time and even create new ones. it is not practicable to own that many wands for most people, especially if you want magic while traveling. @ illeatyourself:
@ Paeris Kiran:
I was thinking of Dragonrealm as well when reading the comic and comments.
Would you think the wands might be Matrixes for certain spell effects, thus making the spell castable with merely expending a minimum amount of power, while unfocused casting would expend more pwoer to keep the energy matrix in shape?
Of course, going by Knaak, someone has an uncapped energy focus and someone who’s really good (like Lilith?) could just pump the focus BACKWARDS… 
So, who else looks at Ars and thinks he/she looks conspicuously like a Blaziken from Pokemon?
TLein wrote:
Yep something like that I think… though I can imagine that wand could work even without user beeing capable of any magic at all.
And well counterspelling and and reflections are norm in almost any magical theory in all worlds.
though… in Knaak´s universes magic has no limits- Shade overpowered a magic of entire planet and all “first ones” who merged with it… in this setting it would be like mage more powerfull that he would overpower both Bhaal and Gaia together. So his characters are rather high on any scale.
@ Paeris Kiran:
I don’t think a non-Magicpowered person would be able to use the wands, although they might not need much to trigger them, if we consider that the swordsmen were expected to be able to identify and use these.
Maybe everyone has enough touch of the Bluestream that they can use a proper matrix to generate an effect, and a true mage can do it without the prop?
@ Elitepastafa:
He’s male.
@Anon
You freaking guessed it