And yet I am sure it removes not the pain much. As cruel as it is to say, on occasion well glad am I that there are so few left of my people to lose, to not have to bear it again.
[And how much more intensely that loss, when it isn't mere years or decades in the losing, but millenia! It doesn't much bear dwelling on for either of them, it still ached if he weighed it too long even if he didn't get quite as maudlin as Emet-Selch could about it, and so fresh, even for a mortal.. no.
There are other times and other places.]
This is the second time you've spoken of being shy of blood magic.
[He remembered. It hadn't struck him as terribly important, but things that were repeated had to have some deep seated cause to it. There's a brief scrape of chair and rustle of cloth, and the sound of steps approaching before there's a touch on Myr's shoulder to warn his presence is there - would he bother if it were anyone else?
... Maybe. The blindness thing, through no fault of his own, made certain requests harder.]
Your device.
[As it's already in Myr's hands, he'll pluck it away without further ado, there's work to be done!]
No magic is inherently evil or abhorrent, merely what people do with it. Sorcery based on blood, life and the power within is no different, save that it is easier to do vile things with it as one may rely on someone else's aether to do it, instead of their own. I have had little interest in the art, it is ... vulgar in comparison to what came before it, but it itself is not innately corrupting. Merely ... leaning on the worse natures of mortals, who have no driving instinct towards generosity to keep them in line.
[It's said matter-of-factly, as if that's just how it is and everyone knew it.]
In mine own world the origins of it were merely a way to focus power and intent upon a working, for the blood of the sorcerer would maintain its desired result even after being bled out. Were ... say, your mate if you have one, to use his or her own blood to enchant an item of protection, and throughout the work maintain that goal in mind, from concept to wounding to completion and then give it to you, the power would be far, far greater than simply plucking an urchin off the street and bathing their spell in strangers' blood. The former is a will to see safety imbedded even in the very components of the spellcraft, the latter terror and fear and pain at the end instead. But it is ... in a way, free power.. and thus how it is used, for those who know not the meaning of true willing sacrifice and the might it brings to bear.
[OH NO A LECTURE. One that ends quite suddenly, it seems.]
...Besides which I use mine own blood in this very craftsmanship, else the crystals I use would shatter upon activation. If blood is abhorrent by its very existence as part of a work..
no subject
[And how much more intensely that loss, when it isn't mere years or decades in the losing, but millenia! It doesn't much bear dwelling on for either of them, it still ached if he weighed it too long even if he didn't get quite as maudlin as Emet-Selch could about it, and so fresh, even for a mortal.. no.
There are other times and other places.]
This is the second time you've spoken of being shy of blood magic.
[He remembered. It hadn't struck him as terribly important, but things that were repeated had to have some deep seated cause to it. There's a brief scrape of chair and rustle of cloth, and the sound of steps approaching before there's a touch on Myr's shoulder to warn his presence is there - would he bother if it were anyone else?
... Maybe. The blindness thing, through no fault of his own, made certain requests harder.]
Your device.
[As it's already in Myr's hands, he'll pluck it away without further ado, there's work to be done!]
No magic is inherently evil or abhorrent, merely what people do with it. Sorcery based on blood, life and the power within is no different, save that it is easier to do vile things with it as one may rely on someone else's aether to do it, instead of their own. I have had little interest in the art, it is ... vulgar in comparison to what came before it, but it itself is not innately corrupting. Merely ... leaning on the worse natures of mortals, who have no driving instinct towards generosity to keep them in line.
[It's said matter-of-factly, as if that's just how it is and everyone knew it.]
In mine own world the origins of it were merely a way to focus power and intent upon a working, for the blood of the sorcerer would maintain its desired result even after being bled out. Were ... say, your mate if you have one, to use his or her own blood to enchant an item of protection, and throughout the work maintain that goal in mind, from concept to wounding to completion and then give it to you, the power would be far, far greater than simply plucking an urchin off the street and bathing their spell in strangers' blood. The former is a will to see safety imbedded even in the very components of the spellcraft, the latter terror and fear and pain at the end instead. But it is ... in a way, free power.. and thus how it is used, for those who know not the meaning of true willing sacrifice and the might it brings to bear.
[OH NO A LECTURE. One that ends quite suddenly, it seems.]
...Besides which I use mine own blood in this very craftsmanship, else the crystals I use would shatter upon activation. If blood is abhorrent by its very existence as part of a work..