Subject: Apparently I meant 'have something for you today'.
Author:
Posted on: 2018-11-26 14:23:00 UTC



The first thing that will spring out at the attentive student is the deviation from the standard circle format. The second thing you will notice is the presence in the exterior lobes of lines entirely separated from the continuous thread of the Speech.

These features, which you will likely not have encountered before, are known as the Unbroken Circle, and they stand in for the Name of the One. Always placed separately from the standard spell structure, they are here used to invoke and request the specific power the One retains for themself: that of animating the inanimate.

This is rare. Not more than one wizard in a thousand will ever invoke the One directly in their lifetime. The spell takes the form less of an instruction set for the universe, and more of a direct appeal to the One above all Powers: 'I need this; here's why; please let me do it'.

This spell has a few other interesting features. While the caster's Name is presented in the usual format (to south), she has also included a 'pseudo-name'-formatted sub-circle for the entity being animated (to west). This adopts the triangular form of a name, but without any of the internal structure.

Finally, to east, we see the signature-form of Eats-the-Purple-Fruits' Name. This cut-down identifier is used when the named wizard is not a true participant in the spell - and indeed, he is here identified as a guide and supervisor, not as a caster himself.

((... and yeah, I couldn't resist.))

hS

Reply Return to messages