#magibabble

[nearsecondimpact]

every place in south England is called some shit like clearriverhampton and every place in north England is named some shit like Fump

[discipulusmaleficus]

Okay, I'll bite. How many kinds of necromancy are there, Kalmar?

@idolsummons - I warned you.

"Kind of a meaningless question, isn't it? How many sorts of music are there?" A thoroughly insufferable grin over a glass of red wine. "Of course, there is one sort, and of course, there are as many sorts as there are practitioners -- there are as many as you feel like making up definitions for~."

"What is the length and breadth of this eternally divisible sea? From the Latin, 'necromancy' refers purely to the act of divination by summoning the dead -- '-mantia', divination, combined with 'necro', the dead. But that's hardly the first thing we think of when we think of necromancy, is it? Over and again, the poetic aspect is summoning the dead, for any reason whatsoever."

"Not even summoning, from a technical aspect. Simply -- using what they leave behind. Nobody's ever told me I'm not a necromancer because I mainly work with bone constructs. Well, one person has, but they were an asshole and I thwacked them soundly in any real contest~."

Kalmar drains the rest of his glass.

"And then there's animal sacrifice, which is just harvesting the power released during the separation of soul and body. That's undeniably necromancy-adjacent, at the very least. But. But! The thing is, you can use almost identical methods to complete non-fatal sacrifices, or to build constructs centred around living individuals -- mainly for the purposes of cursing them, you understand. And these are still widely considered necromantic rituals, thanks to their origin. You're still simply -- manipulating life energy."

"Of course, by that definition, all magic is manipulating energy, and all energy is the stuff of life, and all life is a slow transferral into death. Ergo, I would posit, there are a great number of mages who are "thoroughly opposed" to the necromantic arts and yet practice them on a daily basis --" Is there any more wine in the bottle? No? Damn.

"Perhaps that means it's more a philosophy. A way of approaching ritual. But I certainly couldn't name the core tenets. Aside from, um, 'doing necromancy is fine.'"

Pause.

"Now, if you want the Necromantic Sects listed in my Necromancy 101 Textbook -- offered in English and French, though of course I mastered my Latin conjugation years before I ever went to school -- then there are precisely six. But sometimes eight --"

[book-of-forbidden-knowledge]

Some Basic Occult Terms You Should Know

If you're a newbie occultist, you might feel a bit thrown off by all of the arcane terminology and magibabble that your books will start throwing at you. Here's a list of all the most important and/or most misued terms, and what they're supposed to mean. (If you're a fantasy writer and you want some authentic occult terms to use for your magic system, this might be useful for you, too!) I have a list of occult fields and divination methods here, so I'll leave them off this list.

Altar: Your working space for ritual. It's called an altar because magic is (usually) an inherently spiritual endeavor — you are communing with grand cosmic forces, of one kind or another. A basic altar consists of your magical tools, candles (for vibes), and images or statues of whatever spirits you're working with. (Spelled altar with an "a," not alter with an "e." An alter is a headmate or a personality in a DID system.)

Athame: A ritual knife, specifically one used in Wicca. It's mostly used for directing energy, rather than for cutting things. (Sometimes, a knife or sickle that is used for cutting things is called a boline.)

Apotropaic: Referring to protection magic. An apotropaic charm is a spell meant to keep bad stuff away. Amulets are apotropaic talismans.

Astral: The spirit world. The astral plane is the literal or figurative "above" in "As above, so below." "Astral" can refer to ethereal or spiritual beings or "energy." Sometimes magic is called "Astral Light," like the Force in Star Wars. Astral projection is traveling through the astral plane during meditation, by sending one's spirit or astral body away from one's physical body.

Besom: A witch's broom, specifically a traditional broom made of twigs tied around a pole. It's just an old term for a broom. (Witchcraft likes to make use of Old and Middle English words.)

Baneful: Describes any kind of spell designed to harm or inhibit another person. Also called malefic (as opposed to benefic) magic.

Banishing: A spell that is designed to force unwanted vibes out of a space. Usually performed at the beginning and end of a ritual, so you can begin with a "blank slate." It's like hitting the magical reset button. Also good for managing negative emotions. The best-known banishing in Western occultism is the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram. A banishing can also be a type of baneful working that forces a person's influence out of your life.

Binding: A spell that is designed to prevent a person or entity from acting. A binding spell can prevent a person from harming themself or others, or prevent a spirit from misbehaving.

Charm: A generic term for a spell, especially one represented by a physical object or phrase. A lot of charms are inscriptions or symbols written on paper and kept on one's person.

Conjuring: A spell or ritual that summons a spirit. Invocation and evocation are both types of conjuration.

Correspondences: Magical properties of things existing in nature, e.g. colors, crystals, plants, animals, elements, planets. They were once called occult virtues, and were a staple of Renaissance magic. They're like the building blocks of a spell or ritual, and they can be used as tools to align natural forces with the magician's intent.

Curse: A baneful enchantment, a spell designed to cause harm to another person. There's lots of different types of curses, and lots of reasons to cast one. Sometimes the word hex is used interchangeably.

Demonolatry: The practice of worshipping demons, as opposed to demonology, which is the study of demons or any magical working involving demons. Some magicians prefer to bind and command demons rather than worshipping them, but demonolators treat demons the way pagan witches typically treat gods.

Divination: Acquiring information by magical means. There's thousands of different methods. Some of the more popular ones are cartomancy, reading cards, cleromancy, casting objects like stones or dice, and scrying, staring into a blank object like a mirror or a crystal ball. Astrology is a kind of divination, too.

Ego Death: A particular type of mystical experience, in which one becomes "submerged" in the infinitely vast presence of God or the Universe, and briefly loses one's sense of self. It can be traumatic the first time one experiences it, which is why it's compared to or symbolized by death. Subsequent times are usually much more peaceful and enlightening. A prerequisite for most mystical traditions.

Egregore: An entity created and sustained by a group of people, a collective thoughtform.

Elements: Much of Western esotericism is based around the four classical elements, Earth (🜃), Air (🜁), Fire (🜂), and Water (🜄). They're better understood as the four states of matter: solids (🜃), liquids (🜄), gasses (🜁), and plasma (🜂). Each one is understood as a spiritual force, with its own correspondences and areas of life that it governs. Much of Western magic involves harnessing their influence.

Enchanting: Imbuing an object or place with magic. The magic of the enchantment will last much longer than the duration of the ritual.

Evocation: Calling a spirit to appear before you within a ritual space, a more correct word for summoning. Ideally, a successful evocation will cause the spirit to manifest before you in some way (though you might need a scrying mirror in order to see it).

Familiar: A personal spirit that aids a witch or other magic practitioner. Distinct from a servitor in that it is an external entity that helps the witch of its own accord, not one that the witch themself has created. Traditionally shaped like an animal, but not always. (Lately, the term has become popular as a word for a witch's pet or animal companion. Lots of people use the word "familiar" to refer to pets that aid with magical workings. Traditionally, though, familiars are spirits, not actual animals.)

Fetch: A witch's astral body (or servitor) sent forth to do their bidding.

Glamour: A type of enchantment or illusion spell that changes the appearance of something. In real life, glamour spells won't literally change the physical appearance of a thing, but they will change people's reactions to a thing, e.g. casting a glamour on yourself can cause other people to perceive you as being more attractive.

Grimoire: A book of magic (as opposed to a book about magic). There are lots of mysterious magic books that circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages and early modern period. These books are full of spells, rituals, and weird symbols meant to conjure spirits, gain secret knowledge, and control other people. Modern grimoires are books of practical spells and rituals for experienced practitioners, as opposed to theory or how-to guides. Most occultists also keep a personal grimoire to record their own spells and rituals and their results. (In Wicca, a personal grimoire is called a "Book of Shadows.")

Incantation: Magic words, especially spoken (as opposed to written) spells.

Invocation: Calling a spirit to give you some of its power, either by lending its attention or influence to your magical working, or by physically possessing your body and mind. The latter type of invocation can be partial, meaning you share your body/mind with the spirit, or total, in which the spirit possesses you completely. Don't attempt total invocation alone! Total invocation needs a group ritual, so that other people can tell you what you do and say while possessed, and keep you safe. (Besides, partial invocation is intense enough as it is.)

Left-Hand Path: In Western occultism, the Left-Hand Path is an umbrella term for traditions that take an iconoclastic or self-interested approach to magic. LHPers tend to resent dogma, question taboos, and place emphasis on one's personal power or divinity over unification with the Divine or service to others.

Magic: It's impossible to properly define "magic," with all of its nuances, in a list like this. So I'll give the short version: One famous definition is Aleister Crowley's, "causing change in accordance with Will." This is a pretty broad definition that includes anything done with intention. A more academic definition of magic is "heterodox ritual behavior." Personally, I prefer "harnessing spiritual or supernatural forces to cause desired change in one's life."

Mysticism: The practice of facilitating direct interaction with the Divine, i.e. meeting God face-to-face, in order to acquire spiritual knowledge. Mysticism is taxing and comes with a real risk of insanity, so, it requires a lot of diligent study and mental discipline for most people.

Necromancy: Originally, necromancy referred to a type of divination, which involved calling the spirit of a dead person to ask it questions. (The "Speak With Dead" spell in D&D is a great example of traditional necromancy.) Lately, though, "necromancy" has come to refer to any kind of magic involving the dead. (Be respectful! Dead people are still people.)

Patron Deity: A god or goddess that takes a personal interest in you and your spiritual development. You can't force a god to take interest in you, so you may or may not have a patron deity. If you don't have one, don't worry, you can still do magical work with gods! See this post for the rundown. (Btw, the feminine of "patron" is patroness, not "matron." "Matron" means something different.)

Pentacle: A type of circular talisman inscribed with a sigil representing a spirit or planet, used to evoke its influence. Typically worn as a pendant. Also refers to a pentagram (five-pointed star) in a circle.

Poppet: A doll made of clay or cloth used to represent a person in a spell. In pop culture, poppets ("voodoo dolls") are best known as cursing tools, by being pricked with pins or otherwise harmed in order to harm the person. But there are lots of potential uses for poppets beyond that! For example, they can also be used as healing tools by being stuffed with herbs, or taken care of like a sick person. A type of sympathetic magic.

Projection: Pushing one's own magical power or intention out of one's body, using one's wand or dominant hand. Astral projection is pushing one's spirit out of one's body. A projection is also a type of illusion that creates the appearance of something that isn't there (as opposed to a glamour, which disguises something that is there).

Right-Hand Path: In Western occultism, the Right-Hand Path is an umbrella term for traditions that adopt a formalized structure, and/or place emphasis on mystical union with God and achieving enlightenment. The RHP tends to be more community-focused, as opposed to the LHP's radical individualism. RHPers also care about order, and working according to established traditions.

Servitor: An entity created by the magician. Usually, servitors are "programmed" to perform specific tasks, like magical robots. A servitor created by a group of people is an egregore. A servitor with its own personality and agency is sometimes called a tulpa, but this word is appropriated from Tibetan Buddhism, so I tend not to use it. (My personal spirit insists that he is not a tulpa. Also "tulpamancy" drives me up the wall — "-mancy" means divination, people!)

Sigil: An abstract symbol or glyph meant to represent the desire or intention of the magician. Can also be a generic term for magic symbols or seals in grimoires. Sigils have ancient roots, but the practice of turning one's desire or intention into an unreadable symbol is a modern one. Sigil magic streamlines the process of casting a spell, making it simple, but more difficult, because you have fewer tools and gimmicks to do the heavy lifting for you. (Technically, a sigil does not have to be a symbol — it can be a mantra or incantation, a song, a series of dance steps, etc. as long as it abstractly represents the desire.)

Sympathetic Magic: Magic that affects a target by acting upon a symbol of the target, like using a poppet to represent a person, or using a rose to represent the influence of the planet Venus. Anything you do to the symbol, you do to the target. The magical connection between the symbol and the target is called a "sympathetic link." Correspondences are often used as material representations of immaterial things, like luck or love or protection. By acting upon the material object, you affect the immaterial thing.

Talisman: A spell in the form of an object. There's lots of different kinds of talismans: magic words or sigils written on paper, enchanted jewelry, pentacles, natural objects with their own magical properties (like crystals or feathers), packets of herbs and other ingredients, etc. An amulet is an apotropaic talisman. A talisman has to be the spell itself, so, magical tools are (mostly) not talismans.

Theurgy: Deity work. Magic or mysticism involving the invocation of deities, or the practice of casting spells with the aid of a god or goddess. Mystical theurgy attempts to acquire knowledge of the universe by contemplating the Divine, eventually reaching unification with it.

Thoughtform: A thought or idea that is projected out into the universe so that it will manifest physically. The more coherent the thoughtform, and the more willpower behind it, the easier it will be for it to manifest. Thoughtforms are based on the idea that thoughts alone have some degree of existence, even agency. Everything man-made began as an idea in someone's head...

Trance: An altered state of consciousness. Most kinds of magic require one to be able to enter a trance state at will. There are lots of methods of entering a trance state, in broadly two categories: inhibitory trance, which creates an altered state of consciousness by physically restricting the body or mind, and excitatory trance, which creates an altered state of consciousness by overstimulating it.

Unverified Personal Gnosis: The divine messages or insights that a mystic receives during ritual or trance. They're unverified because they don't really hold water for anyone but the mystic themself. (It is not a good idea to go around insisting that your revelations are the infallible word of God and everyone should listen to you.) Shared Personal Gnosis is when multiple mystics have similar experiences or revelations. Verified Personal Gnosis is when your experiences or revelations are attested in historical sources.

Ward: A type of apotropaic spell that protects an area, like a kind of spiritual shield.

[moon-of-curses]

techno/magibabble isn't bad writing you guys are just cowards

[znorton]

This is why it's so boring to use Latin for your magic incantations. You should be using Greek! Latin is for technobabble, not magibabble!

You see it's quite simple: if they call the earth Gaia, it's fantasy. If they call it Terra, that's sci-fi

[frumfrumfroo]

I was talking with a stranger on Reddit who had this fascinating idea that Ben is actually a horcrux for Palpatine. They had been listening to Empire's End out of order accidentally and when Han talked about Ben's conception it got the listener thinking... What if Palpatine's soul splintered in the explosion & find a host it could cling to? I hate that Palpatine came back at all but since it's disgustingly canon that he did and whatever the reason, his abuse of Ben still makes me so depressed.

[razzle-zazzle]

Ava: If there's barely any sunlight on Daemos, how do plants grow?

Leif:

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[pookaseraph]

So I think the ‘omg why does Brimby not know about alloys’ is not the right framing. He does know what an alloy is. I think Halbrand’s lines come off a bit simplistic, and are more for the audience than Brimby.

H: Have you tried combining it with other ores? To better stretch it out? [‘Have you tried making alloys?’]

C: That wouldn’t be suitable for this ore. […] Because in the amounts we need, it would too greatly dilute its unique qualities.

Celebrimbor is hung up on mithril alloys specifically. I will confess the next explanation is, well, garbage writing, and I can understand why it is often read as ‘Brimby doesn’t understand alloys, lol’. Steel is an alloy, he knows what alloys are. Halbrand explains more to the audience what alloys are, imo.

H: Might there not be some alloy to amplify the qualities of your ore?

Celebrimbor was stumped on how to amplify the very unique properties of mithril, something he had previously thought could only be diminished by adding it to an alloy, or perhaps because the alloy would shake out to be like a very low percent mithril which is understandable why it would leave him skeptical.

Indeed with have more magibabble later about coaxing instead of forcing the metals together. This is another line that is (rightly) derided as ‘lol wtf does the at even mean, Halbrand?’ The answer, my friends, is ‘magic’. This is all (imo) to show Sauron dragging Celebrimbor, by the nose, through tens of years of metallurgical experimentation on a new ore which also includes producing that alloy in a different way than otherwise might have been expected.

Also: rings bad, they subvert the natural order of things and it was likely a mistake to link them to an existential threat in the show. It makes them seem a necessary evil rather than an exercise in vanity.

"Celebrimbor makes the rings of power using Sauron’s knowledge. That’s the whole point behind his and the smiths of Eregion corruption. They are doing Sauron’s biding. Tolkien is very clear about this on his letters, and says the only reason these rings aren’t evil is because the Elves don’t use them with bad intentions. The rings should have never been made, Elrond was correct in S2. Tolkien calls this the second fall of the Elves for a reason. In the show, Sauron tells him about the alloys and messes with the materials. How does the greatest of Elven smiths alive doesn’t know about alloys? Don’t ask me, I’m not the one writing the show."

[nearsecondimpact]

if i die today i thoroughly hated every moment i spent on this fuckass web site. it was an honour to serve with all of you but for the life of me i can’t figure out what the dark lord actually wants

[magibabble]

Frederick Drive is 1/3 lesbians (and that’s a low estimate because I still haven’t decided on orientations for Jenn, Tricia, or Becka yet)

[azvolrien]

Something that has always bugged me about voice acting - usually in video games, I’ve found, but often in animation too.

So, voice actors often don’t record their lines together with their co-stars; there are exceptions, but frequently they’re by themselves in a recording booth reading the script, maybe with someone reading placeholder dialogue so they have something to react to, and then it falls to the editing team to stitch everything together in the end result.

Except... Sometimes, when there are made-up words like characters’ names and fantasy magibabble, it’s clear that nobody has given the voice actors a consistent guide on how to pronounce those made-up words, so when the editors put everything together you end up with the characters pronouncing things totally differently within one conversation.

Brought to you by: me watching a playthrough of Horizon Forbidden West where NPCs would tell Aloy their names and she’d proceed to completely mispronounce them. Which, in-story, seems rather rude, don’t you think?

[discipulusmaleficus]

you wanted more incoherent magibabble notes, right

[kernelbastard]

@polarwooly ‘s Innsmouth posts have gotten me thinking about some old headcanons/Lovecraft Lite material I came up with a year or so back, working under the assumption that the various narrators have been unreliable at best and actively lying about what they witnessed at worst (either for their own social gain, or to reinforce their personal prejudices that would’ve otherwise been challenged).

It’s cheap, I know, but there’s only so many “unknowable” excuses I can read before it gets annoying and I need to do some worldbuilding. I think the fear of the unknown is scary, absolutely, but none of these strike me as anywhere near frightening, because they’re just... Explainable??? It’s not that hard with a little scifi-fantasy magibabble. A lot of it strikes me as very familiar, based on established tropes, and I think that could be a good foundation for semi-explaining these creatures while giving them new thematic meanings.

So, they probably won’t all be even, but I’m gonna write a few lore dumps about my three favorite Mythos topics, focusing on things we could reasonable observe or learn from historical records rather than the mysterious aspects. First, the Colour out of Space as a disorienting, but not actively hostile species of space bugs; second, Dagon, the Deep Ones, Hydra, and the R’lyans as separate, but closely connected species/societies; third, Shub-Ni. You know her, you love her, you wish anyone other than Lovecraft named her.

PS: I’m going to be referring to her by either the shortened version or “Shub-Nijurath” to avoid the hard G sound. Is it performative and meaningless? Yep! Does it also make me way less uncomfortable talking about her as my favorite of the Mythos deities? Yep again! Is it worth this not showing up in her tag? Probably not for others, but for me, absolutely! Doesn’t change anything that actually matters, but I, personally, would rather just side-step that. Also, the “zjh” sound is fun to say. (That being said, I will use the hard G once in the tags of this post so it can be found, sorry. That will be it, though, I promise)

And, since this will probably get more traction, anyway, due to being in all the tags I could manage, I’ll link them here when I’m done. Until then, I’ll just pin it.

[azdoine]

more fanfic recs:

Queen of the Moon - nominally a Sailor Moon/Overlord crossover, but really more of a high-octane pastiche of the "virtual reality isekai” genre in general. Usagi is transmigrated into the body of her MMO character, and from there, into another world entirely - but she has to deal with the fact that all of her favorite NPCs have also become real people in their own right, and that their new home is a hellscape ravaged by countless other factions isekai’d from across the multiverse.

Sword Vector - a crossover between Fate/Stay Night and the setting of Notes; a rumination on the fundamental nature of truth, magic, authority, and reality in the setting of the Nasuverse, from the perspective of Counter Guardian Emiya. (it’s probably not intentional on the author’s part, but there’s some cool fucked up Gender Bullshit from Victor Frankenstein, too.) read this if you listen to Kinoko Nasu’s magibabble and you enjoy it but think it could have been more loghorreic.

[redinkofshame]

Heated discussion + cookies + candles for Dorian and Solas (platonic)?

This was fun! And now I know how to look for techno-babble (but magic). Keyword: MagiBabble

I have almost no experience writing Dorian, so I did my best. Also, it’s more like (platonic?) than (platonic)? if that makes sense. Hope that’s okay!

For @dadrunkwriting  . Not any kind of canon, just a one-shot. Snarky!Solas x Dorian

~~~~~~~~~~

Solas was at his table in the rotunda, decoding an ancient tome the Inquisitor had found.

‘Ancient’ was relative, of course. The language in the text was older than the resources he had available to him now, of course, but it was also much newer than what he’d studied in his own time. He could manage it, but he felt a headache brewing.

It did not help that he could hear Dorian’s constant chatter from the library above. He was currently flirting with some poor soldier boy who had been passing through. Dorian pitched his voice as if in a whisper (despite being loud enough in the echoing chamber for Solas to hear him clearly) and informed the soldier, “There’s a reason they say mages make the best lovers, you know.”

Solas nearly rolled his eyes. Above, the young soldier practically giggled. “Is that so?”

Solas tried to ignore them as Dorian went in to lurid details of some of his favorite tricks. Dorian was whispering in truth now — if only Solas didn’t possess superior hearing to modern day peoples. Still, he tried focused on his work as if he could hear nothing unusual. He even smirked a little to himself as the other mage detailed a few spells Solas was particularly fond of himself.

Up until Dorian was halfway through a familiar spell when he veered off from what Solas was expecting. He did a quick mental calculation and, alarmed at the results, stood bolt upright. “Dorian! I’m surprised in you!” he shouted up.

There was a pause before he heard, “Solas? What are you on about?”

Dorian moved towards the railing to look down at him, but Solas was already storming the staircase.

By the time he reached Dorian’s nook the soldier had high-tailed it elsewhere — a fact which seemed to have Dorian entirely put out. “What’s all this about, Solas? You’ve interrupted a rather engaging conversa—”

“A conversation with someone you may well have endangered.”

“Is this because you thought I was talking about blood magic? Because while the spell does effect the, uh, flow of a man’s blood I can assure you there is no actual blood magic involved.”

“I am aware,” Solas replied snidely. “I also believe you are too responsible to intentionally harm your partner so I must assume it is merely ignorance that has you recklessly allowing such instability in your mana vectors.”

“Wha— I promise you, the spell is safe! I’ve used it a number of times, and never experienced anything but pleasant side effects.”

“Then you’ve gotten lucky in more ways than one,” he snapped. “What would happen if the accumulated energy slipped it’s bindings? The flux alone is nearly enough to —”

“Ah, I see your point,” Dorian admitted. “It runs the risk of snapping back, which would cause a doozy of a headache.”

“Or worse.”

“Well, what is your suggestion, then?” Dorian sniffed. He plopped down at his table and reached for a plate of cookies. “A second matrix relay?”

“A proper spell manifold, for starters,” Solas answered, sitting across from him.

Dorian scoffed. “Yes, very romantic. ‘Hold on a second, dear, I must pull out the chalk and spend twenty minutes drawing a spell circle—’”

Solas snatched a cookie from the plate. “If you can’t make anticipation an enjoyable part of the process then you need more help than I thought. You’re also using the wrong array if it is taking your twenty minutes to prepare. You just need the basic… Here.” He glanced around for a quill and parchment. Finding none, he bit deliberately into his cookie. Raising his eyebrows at the taste — which was far better than expected — he bit a second time, until the treat was in the desired shape. He pushed the cookies off the plate and placed his shape on the edge.”

“What are you doing? Is this some kind of baked-good related hermit mag—”

Solas sushed him before he finished his insult. He was already working on a second shape.

By the time Solas placed the third shape on the plate, Dorian understood. He even helped Solas with the last one, the two men setting their half-eaten cookies in the fourth and fifth positions of the plate/spell circle simultaneously.

“I suppose… Yes, that might be doable. I still argue that it takes away some of the spontaneity…” Dorian drifted off for a moment, lost in thought, then nodded. “But it has merit. What do you use in place of the initiation sequence? You couldn’t just skip over it using this method.”

“A simple change in reagents will suffice. What do you use currently?”

He hesitated, then begrudgingly said, “I find chicken liver to be the most readily available…”

Solas blinked, genuinely surprised. “What, really? You can’t be bothered with a spell circle but you have time to handle raw liver? Is that a common dish in Tevinter?”

Glancing away, Dorian answered under his breath, “I usually tell them it’s an aphrodisiac…”

Solas snorted a laugh before he could stop himself. “Ah. Well, I’m sure you’ll find candles and the right incense to be far more seductive, and equally effective.” He stood to leave.

“And you think those will be powerful enough to contain it?”

Solas leaned in towards the still-seated Dorian. “Provided the mage puts enough sweat into it, yes” he answered quietly. “Would you like a demonstration?”

With satisfaction he watched the man’s eyes widen and a flushed heat his face. “What?” He swallowed hard. “No. I think I’ll manage.”

Solas shrugged, grabbed one last cookie, and turned away. As he made his way back to his rotunda he heard Dorian swear quietly under his breath. “Fasta vass...”

[kr1g]

Day 0 of magibabble round 2

Two of my players keep calling The High Elysian Academic School of Magic 'hogwarts'