Sixteen books on magic spells

[bookish_lioness]

WHO: Hermione Granger and rifters (or anyone who saw her note and wants to chat)
WHAT: Adelaide is having Hermione find out about magic in other worlds by interviewing rifters for SCIENCE.
WHEN: Mid-Drakonis and onwards. There's no deadline on acquiring knowledge!
WHERE: The default is Skyhold's library, otherwise note in the subject line if your character would have arranged to meet her somewhere else.
NOTES: Nothing comes to mind; will change if necessary.

Anyone frequenting the library has probably become used to the curly-haired young girl who's claimed a small alcove as her own. She can usually be found sitting in the corner, nose buried in a book as her brow furrows, attempting to bridge the gap between her worldview and that of Thedas'. It's not always an easy task, and sometimes names and dates get jumbled, which is why she can sometimes be found just a few steps away at the nearest table, books and journals and bits of parchment scattered about as she tries to make sense out of all the reading she's done.

Still, what at first glance appears to be a mess is actually rather organized, and for however engrossed she seems to be in her work, she's always been happy to talk to new people. After all, each conversation counts towards research, even if it isn't in the particular field she's been asked to study. Go ahead and ask around for her if you don't know where to find her; chances are she's hard to miss, and many will be able to point out the inquisitive rifter if she happens to be around.

Comments

[bookish_lioness]

Hermione wasn't sure what she was expecting, but whatever it was, it certainly wasn't that. She couldn't even be entirely sure what she was seeing until it was already over, after which she frowned a little as she kept scanning the area for the remnants of Lenneth's spell.

"Versatile, yes," she murmured before turning her attention to Lenneth again, smiling a little. "Have you tried relearning other spells, or have you simply been using this one in whatever flexible way you can manage? I'm curious as to whether magic can be fully relearned or even altered here."

[lennethvalkyrie]

"For now? This. The others..." Lenneth narrowed her eyes slightly in thought, "may be considered magic, but I do not think they could be called 'spells'. I admit though that I have not been forceful in my attempts to regain my abilities." She frowned. "I experienced something the first time I attempted magic in this world. Something blocked me from it; like a wall, or a shield. Angered, I tried harder. It caused a great pain in my mark, a crackling of energy. I stopped there, but a young elf experienced its final result and, without intending to, opened a rift within Skyhold some time ago. It was said she was practicing magic at the time.

"I believe if those of us with shards attempt a spell too forcibly that we are at risk of such a thing. I also no-longer believe that it is the shard that was preventing me, but something the Thedans have deemed 'the Veil'."

[bookish_lioness]

Hermione hesitated, frowning slightly. She'd heard about a mage who'd inadvertently opened a rift in Skyhold while practicing magic, and she absently brushed her fingers over her left palm as she wondered over whether she'd ever experienced anything like that before while attempting to relearn her magic. She didn't think so, and she certainly wasn't the type to continue doing something even when it hurt or could obviously cause some rather large problems.

"The Veil is supposedly a barrier between this world and the next," Hermione allows carefully. "But I don't know that I would say I feel any sort of real barrier when I do magic here. It's more like... the energy is getting circumvented somehow. Deflected, to the point where the spell's outcome isn't what it should be, or it doesn't go where I'm aiming it, or it's harder to get it to do exactly what it's supposed to do. So I suppose that's where the 'block' is for me,even if it doesn't really feel that way, if that makes sense."