31st: The Spells of Haruhi Suzumiya

[godbent]

[Voice / Action for the library]

[For the last 20some days, Haruhi Suzumiya has been obsessively studying. While she slowed down some after the Cultural Fair, it still was a very, very welcome distraction from thinking about how much she was hurt by that break up. Which is why she's been in and our of the library a lot. Finally though today she has decided to prop open the journal and ask for help.]

Hey, Luceti, does anyone recognize these?

[And she moves the journal to focus on:
* Helios's universe basic spellbook
* Basic Buffyverse spellbook (possibly this one or this one)
Lined up next to each other. these are the two she's had the most success with so far... she even more or less mastered one of the spells in the first one.]

Or these?

[And now it focuses on:
* Touhou Grimoire
* CLAMP universe magic tome (Western)
* CLAMP universe magic tome (Eastern)
Much less success here...]

Or this one? [She is much more unhappy sounding at this last book (a Greenhill Academy Rune textbook) because she's had basically no success even figuring out what it is talking about other than it apparently deals with mythology and magic... things.]

Or, I also found the "Writings of Aurelius" next to those first two ones, but I'm not sure if it's got spells in it or not... [it feels ominous, actually... so she figured it might, but- inside it just looks like a bunch of horoscope type things as well as just some weird old school notes]

I'm looking for people who know these books and are willing to tutor me in what's within them. I expect answers ASAP; that is all. [A pause] Also, Leon, since when do you write textbooks? [And then the camera focuses on a book written by Leon DS Geeste on Symbology]

[Anyone can, of course, question here about this post. Or the books. Or both]

Comments

[voice]

[godbent]

Oh yeah, which one?

[voice]

[falenandawn]

The one about runes.... I think. There is a famous school in the north that goes by that name, though I have never seen it.

[voice]

[godbent]

Uh... that one goes on about a sword and a shield?

[voice]

[falenandawn]

..That is probably the story of creation.

[voice]

[godbent]

Yeah, it sounded like a creation myth.

[A weird one]

[voice]

[falenandawn]

The True Runes mentioned there are often claimed to be the source of all runes in my world, so the creation myth being mentioned there is not surprising.

[voice]

[godbent]

[...] And what's a rune? [Seriously, this book doesn't really explain that because it takes for granted people in the world would know what they are]

[voice]

[falenandawn]

[Well of course. Runes are... runes.]

Runes are my world's version of magic. I have been told they are akin to 'magical tattoos' by some here, though that is somewhat inaccurate.

[voice]

[godbent]

[...Okay, she figured it might be like that based on her study of the Runic she's needed to do for the teleportation spell she's been working on but-]

And...?

[voice]

[falenandawn]

They are magical symbols we embed in our hands or forehead to allow the casting of magic. [He isn't a Rune Sage- he couldn't tell her much.]

[voice]

[godbent]

...Embed? Like what, you draw them or your shove something in?

[voice]

[falenandawn]

....Ah.... it is a process a trained professional is needed for, but the symbol is placed upon the hands or forehead after being removed from it's water crystal. Usually, one can only see it when casting.

[voice]

[godbent]

So the symbol is in a crystal, originally?

[..so is it physical or not]

[voice]

[falenandawn]

They are stored inside the crystals until they are attached, yes.

[voice]

[godbent]

And where do the crystals come from?

[voice]

[falenandawn]

They are mined, actually.

[voice]

[godbent]

They're mined.

[voice]

[falenandawn]

....They are mined?

[What.]

[voice]

[godbent]

And they have the symbols in them when mined out?