Uncontrolled Mana Bursts: Sporadic Magic
A review and discussion of ‘Wild Magic’ among the populous in the Acidalia Region, and harnessing mana bursts
By: Verity Silverfond (High Wizard, Tezax), Asheon Silvyr (High Wizard, Libir), Barromir Keeneye (Research Apprentice, Tezax). TTMRA
The first half of the book is a review of research on the topic of sporadic mana bursts. Several previous papers and books have been examined and discussed by the authors.
- One source discussed contains an interview with Selqie Belmorond, a young elf sorcerer who lived in Dozey Town, afflicted with wild magic at birth.
- She was born under the light of a Zenith aurora (there are undulations of the aurora on the Umbra), which is what everyone suspects made her so powerful. This is also possibly why she has uncontrolled mana bursts.
- Another source discusses the findings of Knazbat Fiddletop, a gnome sorcerer in Eitea who attempted to store his mana surges for later use by using a combination of directed meditation and magical contraptions
- He was somewhat successful, able to stop a mana surge from occurring immediately after casting a spell, but it was quite taxing. He managed to store the mana in a bank of parallel wired crystals for a short amount of time before firing it off at will. The expelled mana burst could be coaxed into a specific school of magic (i.e. abjuration, or evocation depending on what was needed), but a specific spell could not be chosen by Knazbat.
- Another source discusses the transmutation of a young half orc mage in Nephire by the name of Roric Tormund into a sheep.
- Roric never transformed back, but neither did he age. He also showed extreme resilience to damage in his new form, and an extraordinary rate of recovery and regeneration.
- It is theorized that the mana burst created a sort of standing wave within his body that is unable to be naturally dispelled. He is forever charged with a heightened amount of mana, but his transformation cannot be dropped either, unless someone communicates to the sheep that it used to be a humanoid and demonstrates how to dispell a spell to it.
The second half of the book contains Silverfrond and Silvyr’s theories on how these mana bursts can be harnessed and directed, not unlike using lightning rods to capture lightning power.
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Silverfrond suggests that an array of specifically tuned crystals may be arranged in an equatorial region to harness the mana winds from a Zenith aurora, and that the mana may be stored in some sort of battery crystal. This would be a very large scale operation to store immense of free mana for later dispersal in order to modulate it in a region.
- Silvyr notes that small scale batteries are not stable enough to hold a charge for a practical amount of time, as demonstated by Knazbat’s experiments.
- Keeneye paucits that Edge constructs may utilize small yet high capacity crystals and wonders about the efficacy of reverse engineering them.
- Silverfrond believe’s it’s possible, but it’d probably take centuries to do so - encryptions on those things, let alone the technology are complex, you know? It would probably be faster to start from scratch or hijack one of the constructs entirely.
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Silvyr ponders the possibility of artificially inducing specifically controlled mana bursts in one’s own body at will. Instead of waiting on chance, he wonders if it’d be possible to predict Umbral fluctuations and creating a spell of some sort to absorb the increased free mana into the body.
- Silverfrond notes that there are no small scale batteries stable enough to hold a charge for a pracital amount of time, as noted by Silvyr previously.
- Silvyr suggests that some type of transfiguration of the body would likely allow for increased mana storage, as the body already naturally stores large quantities of mana, and improves its capacity through the practice of channeling it, as seen in powerful mages.
- Keeneye mentions that this may not be safe as there is no previous precedent. Silverfrond agrees, though she does not discourage Silvyr’s train of thought. She mentions that she looks forward to seeing his results if he ever attempts this.
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Keeneye wonders about the feasibility of artificially inducing a standing wave of mana within one’s body. It could be a source of infinitely replenishing magic, possibly sustaining a spell cast on the self indefinitely.
- Silverfrond agrees that this may be the most promising way to utilize sporadic mana bursts.
- Silvyr believes the chances of executing this maneuver correctly are slim.
- The two agree to disagree.
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