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[emet_sulk]

[ Although the bad dreams have eased somewhat, Emet-Selch decides to make one last effort to try and fully satisfy the conditions for his so-called 'rehabilitation'. To that end...he has come up with a proposition. ]

Mages of the 'Chosen': how many of you draw upon the latent energy of your land to fuel your magicks and find yourself rationing your power day-to-day? I have some tests I would like to conduct.

Those completely lacking in magical ability are also welcome. I have a different sort of experiment for you.

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[baldrshand]

Most people in my homeland have some slight potential for using magic that can be trained--it's a little like musical talent, where everyone can at least do a little but few people train.

I focus my energy through my staff, but it has a limited amount of use before it needs repair, so in that way I have to be careful about how often I use it. Do you think you would be able to fix it if that happened here?

[emet_sulk]

In what way is your staff degrading? Is it because it cannot handle the magic you channel?

[breakin_ur_lore]

Other than a few specific spells, I haven't noticed too much different about my arcane abilities. My connection to the Light feels a little weak, but I've just started practicing it, so maybe it's my fault.

What I'm having the most problems with is my nature magic. It feels like I'm reaching out to nothing.

[emet_sulk]

Are you saying that the natural life here is not accessible to you?

My own abilities seem to be greatly diminished and this land has no aether for me to draw upon. However, I would have imagined that green magic is unaffected.

[breakin_ur_lore]

[He's somewhat aware that the magic of Etheirys is different from the magic he's used to - at least in the ways that its users construct and understand it - but he's not sure how different it is, so he doesn't know how much to explain. Or even if he'd be explaining it in a way that makes sense to Emet-Selch. And, of course, there's his ever-present feeling of insecurity making him nervous about the whole thing...he's been using nature magic for years, but most of what he knows has been intuited more than officially taught. A more experienced shaman could figure this out, he's sure, he's just not good enough to do it himself.

But he's gotta try, so he decides to start at the basics.]

Shaman are supposed to be able to speak to the elements. The spirits of the land, and of water, and fire, and that sort of thing. But...no one is responding when I talk.

It's like, when you're in a room and you're talking because you think someone else is with you, but then you turn around and they've already left. You weren't supposed to be alone, but...you are.

[emet_sulk]

Ah, I see. Spirits that would normally be ever-present are now absent. I take it that you are also unable to utilise natural magic as a consequence?

[ It's like harnessing the power of the elementals, Emet-Selch surmises. Not that anyone has ever really tried to do that in his world. Not without dire consequences. ]

[breakin_ur_lore]

All but the most basic of spells, yes. There's a little bit of, you know, "spirit" in us, so I can manage to use that.

But... [How can he properly convey how weird it feels? Well, maybe Emet-Selch gets it without him having to say more. He seems like a smart old guy.]

I've been to other planets, and there were spirits there. It's not just an Azeroth-only thing. So...I don't know why this world wouldn't have any.

[emet_sulk]

Having never visited another star, I cannot say. My star has an abundance of that which we call aether. Travelling beyond its atmosphere, one will find little to none - or so I'm led to understand. So why shouldn't this land be bereft of all that which we find familiar?

But that is precisely why I wish to run this sort of experiment. To see if we can share our magicks with others.

[ And also to get the Council off his back... ]

[breakin_ur_lore]

[He almost tells Emet-Selch that he's done that before - shared the magic of others and pooled disparate powers into one. But it is technically supposed to be a secret - at least for now, he's pretty sure; the Council of Tirisfal was a covert operation, and its new members hadn't agreed to reveal themselves, or him, to the world. Of course, maybe that was all moot here on this completely different world...but better to remain discreet for now.]

What sort of experiment would help us do that?

[And also; ]

On my world, we have something called 'aether', too, but I don't think it's the same thing you're talking about.

[emet_sulk]

I plan to store some of my own aether in a crystal and require someone to try to draw upon it as a source of energy or magical power. Mayhap you would like to volunteer and we could see if the 'aether' we are each familiar with is compatible.