”That… I’m not sure about,” Jigano said slowly. ”But it’s possible they can use a type of illusion magic or similar Ascended ability to mask their appearance. They don’t do so consistently though. Or at least, everyone who went out in the dark last Long Night had a different experience with them. Wessex met with shadows. Kiada and Sam ran into a small black creature that had taken over a luxere.” And had subsequently killed Isla. ”I’ve never heard a clear account of what Phoebe experienced, but the monsters I met with never showed a physical appearance at all. They stayed hidden and twisted our minds and emotions from the shadows… not unlike the blight,” he added quietly. ”But far more abrupt and violent in the ebb and flow of their effect on us.” He gave a light shrug to the other question about Ronin’s limits. ”When we first trained with his soultwin, not far. He’s had more time to practice with it though, and it sounds as though he has picked up some new tricks since we last spoke, so perhaps he has extended his range on it.”
The bard listened intently as Loren struggled to explain what he had seen, but it seemed so incredibly strange that it defied description. He nodded with a crooked smile at the suggestion to ask Remi, but the smile faded back to a thoughtful frown as he considered the question. ”Not in the records I found. Or at least, the ones that are duplicated have been arranged according to their types or schools. The only reference to things that don’t fit easily into those are that sometimes the spirits of the land grant unusual new magics, or that some people spontaneously manifest something new. But I haven’t found any list of what those new and unusual abilities were in the past. All the more reason to start now,” he added with a wry smile. He hadn’t been intending to try and lump them in with the existing schools, but Loren was trying to be helpful at last, fortunate gods attend him, and even the blight in Jigano’s blood couldn’t budge his tongue to be needlessly snarky.
The bag was a little light as Jigano lifted it again, and he frowned thoughtfully down at it. ”I think we have just enough to do the windows near the Shrine,” he said a little dubiously. ”But the Temple will require a lot more than we have at the moment… When you have time one of these days, I can show you where to gather it, though, and we can finish the Temple’s main room then, if you’re amenable.”
The bard listened intently as Loren struggled to explain what he had seen, but it seemed so incredibly strange that it defied description. He nodded with a crooked smile at the suggestion to ask Remi, but the smile faded back to a thoughtful frown as he considered the question. ”Not in the records I found. Or at least, the ones that are duplicated have been arranged according to their types or schools. The only reference to things that don’t fit easily into those are that sometimes the spirits of the land grant unusual new magics, or that some people spontaneously manifest something new. But I haven’t found any list of what those new and unusual abilities were in the past. All the more reason to start now,” he added with a wry smile. He hadn’t been intending to try and lump them in with the existing schools, but Loren was trying to be helpful at last, fortunate gods attend him, and even the blight in Jigano’s blood couldn’t budge his tongue to be needlessly snarky.
The bag was a little light as Jigano lifted it again, and he frowned thoughtfully down at it. ”I think we have just enough to do the windows near the Shrine,” he said a little dubiously. ”But the Temple will require a lot more than we have at the moment… When you have time one of these days, I can show you where to gather it, though, and we can finish the Temple’s main room then, if you’re amenable.”
