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oracleofdiscord · 6 months ago

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#holy shit this is like. such a good thing to point out

#bc we NEVER FIXED THE WIZARD PROBLEMS#WE FIXED ADAINES PROBLEM

#SHE GOT RICH AGAIN#BUT WE LEFT THE SYSTEM INTACT!!

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#i do get the canon though like even though it was supposed to be a bit i think about

#the girls in my hs spanish class who were from DR and spoke spanish every day w each other and at home

#and they weren’t great at spanish class! bc it was hard for them to articulate Why they were saying what they were saying

#it just made sense to them

#so i can definitely see jace being like i Know magic and i know that i’m good at it. but when you ask me to put down on paper how to cast

#a spell i can’t just put it into words. i just Do it

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i guess it’s supposed to be canon that jace failed taking levels in wizard because it was too much work or he’s just not smart, which is fine i guess, haha very funny but have we considered the narrative parallels if it was actually because jace was (and still is, on a teacher’s salary? lbr) a broke bitch who couldn’t afford barrels of diamonds much like adaine??? have we considered that jace is a struggling artist turned grade school teacher because he didn’t have the money to invest in higher education? this man took online courses at his local community college and still somehow is buried under student loans. of course he went evil.

#i also want to add my own personal thoughts to this #that are maybe a bit less interesting than the other things shared but #from a mechanical standpoint wizard and sorcerer don't mesh that well.#they delay the ability to learn higher level spells. and they use different ability scores #so to cast a spell with either charisma or intelligence i think you would have to learn it twice #and i was thinking about how that would translate in-universe #and i feel like maybe wizard casting and sorcerer casting are just completely antithetical ways of working with magic #sorcerer casting is getting in touch with your own emotions and feeling your internal magic flow through you and altering it on the fly #whereas wizardry is for people who don't have internal magic they can naturally manipulate so it involves drawing on external magic sources #and rote memorization to do things the same way each time to guarantee results #so a sorcerer trying to take a level of wizard would be learning magic in a way that fundamentally isn't *at all* helpful #for using their innate powers #and taking the time to learn this completely different system is actually going to hurt their innate magic #because when you get used to rote casting with pre-written spell formulas it's actually harder to on-command feel the emotions you need #in order to power your innate magic #and shape it for yourself #kind of like playing by ear vs using sheet music #i learned to play the violin by ear and when i tried to use sheet music i really struggled #and despite a few instances of taking some time to try and learn #it never really helped me improve my playing to try and sit down and pick out the notes from the sheet #when i could find them instinctively if i could just hear them once #and so when i had a violin teacher who gave me sheet music i eventually resorted to getting her or my dad #to play the piece for me. and then learning it from there #i don't think i ever told her i couldn't read sheet music. because i was embarrassed #but i could still play the violin fine when i practiced regularly.#just. a different way. that the sheet music didn't really help me with.#even though being able to read sheet music is of course the expected standard for most musicians

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