....no, not at all. Think of my shards like a very complex machine; in that metaphor, deriving an Axiom is working out techniques for using the machine effectively.
...I'm going to mangle this metaphor awfully, but imagine if there was a musical instrument that was enchanted to play itself, if it was given the right score. The enchantment can reproduce all the fingerings and techniques a musician would need, but it needs the actual instrument to play and the musical score to tell it how to turn those techniques into a song. My Axiom is like that enchantment, my cosmic shards are like the instrument, and each spell is a different song.
Does that make it any clearer, or am I just digging myself a deeper hole?
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Date: 2025-02-08 09:07 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2025-02-10 12:39 am (UTC)[thinks for a moment]
...I'm going to mangle this metaphor awfully, but imagine if there was a musical instrument that was enchanted to play itself, if it was given the right score. The enchantment can reproduce all the fingerings and techniques a musician would need, but it needs the actual instrument to play and the musical score to tell it how to turn those techniques into a song. My Axiom is like that enchantment, my cosmic shards are like the instrument, and each spell is a different song.
Does that make it any clearer, or am I just digging myself a deeper hole?
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Date: 2025-02-11 05:23 am (UTC)That is clearer, actually. Though . . . I take it that you yourself are not a musician?
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Date: 2025-02-11 05:25 am (UTC)