#if anyone cares. it seems like gnomish magic users have some sort of circle/loosely enclosed space at the end of the staff
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tries to write a little creature and gets distracted for two hours analyzing staves from the manga for like. literally two paragraphs in the opening that are just supposed to help set the scene i hate it here
#a little creature#possamble#if anyone cares. it seems like gnomish magic users have some sort of circle/loosely enclosed space at the end of the staff#that involves metal at least a little#eg. rin's metal staff / all of falin's staves that weren't straight up maces / etc.#ironically most of the actual gnomes that appear don't use staves and seem to be free casters or spirit users#whereas all the junior canaries we see have wooden staves with a slight crook but no enclosure#(and all the extremely experienced mages have their own unique arcane focus or are free casters)#the only magic users we see that have a wooden staff with a circular head are marcille and fionil... the only two half elves we see#which possibly sets the really interesting implication that fionil might also be a hybrid caster who uses both systems#ETA: i believe maizuru is the only mage we see who uses the eastern system#and she seems to fall into the spirit user/unique arcane foci (paper) category for understandable reasons#though i do wonder what non-ninja magic looks like over there#since i get the feeling that she's a highly espionage-focused and specialized mage
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