Auristics - How to write about it in a correct way?

[Chandray]

I'm giving auristics a first try in this thread but am unsure if this is an acceptable way of writing about it.

It would be good if somebody who knows how to write about auristics in Mizahar could have a look at the three posts I have written so far. Give me comments please. I want to check this before I write on.

[Gale Austin McCenry]

Hey Chandray, I didn't exactly read your thread because I am not very familiar with writing about magic myself, however, I do have some advice for you, if it means anything at all. I don't really think there is a "right way" or a "wrong way" to write about using any type of magic (Unless you're completely out of whack). People all have different styles of writing and describe things differently. As long as you aren't doing anything that's pushing the bounds of the magic, or doing something that that type of magic can't even do, or even playing past your skill level, I believe you should be fine with what you wrote. I know that probably didn't help you diddly squat (because I need things to be approved of as well sometimes) but it's just something to think about while doing future threads. The 'guidelines' of the magic is all in the lore. As long as you know the lore and play by the lore then you should have no problem with playing any type of magic correctly. What I would do is I would ask myself questions about the lore to help guide me. Like, "Does it follow ______ characteristic? Does this circumstance follow _______?" Sometimes questions like that help a lot because it makes you think of the details you put into it and whether it goes along side with the lore. I don't know. Like I said, everyone does things differently so you don't have to do that. It's just a suggestion after all. Good luck with the thread though! ~McPainty

[Chandray]

Thanks Gale.

Your post was actually a good and helpful answer. It was interesting. It inspired me to look at the lore and rules again and think one more time.

There were actually a few things … and I’ve made changes to job, added CS content and edited my thread abit.

It feels like a clear improvement (to me that is). I’m feeling much more comfortable with all of it and ready to go on writing.

[Fallan Windchaser]

I would suggest that you have a look through Tarots vLog as he has some video's about magic, including djed and auristics.

[Chandray]

Thanks Fallan, that was a good advice too.

I have listended to Tarot's vLogs about djed and auristics, and got the OOC explanations, but now I have new questions regarding how to think when writing IC.

The aurist is actively manipulating her own djed in order to be able to gather information from the auras and the method for doing it is to focus her attention on the subject she wants to gather info from. Does this mean the auristics are only active when she puts in effort to turn it on and the rest of the time it’s totally off? Or is it a constant sensitivity for auras that she can increase and decrease, but not totally turn off? Tarot's example with a blind person made me think it's the latter, auristics always there "at low volume in the background" ?

If she finds explanations to what djed is, from IC teachers and books, this will need to be explained in other ways than Tarot’s explanation to the players. The IC explanations would need to use other things than code as examples. Things that people in Mizahar can know about and relate to. I’m wondering what that could be. How do other writers do this?

How would a wizard from Mizahar describe and explain djed ? What would they compare it to ? Would it work to say that sheet music is the information about a tune, and by reading the sheet music the trained musician can get how the tune would sound ? A food recipe is the information about a dish ? The construction drawings and calculations for a building or a ship is the information about that building or ship ?

Also, the “reading” of Auras seems to not change the auras or the djed of the things that is being read. But I’m curious and wondering if it could happen? Is that possible? Or is auristics “read only” ?

[Fallan Windchaser]

Using Auristics implies the conversion of your own djed. I don't think that it's always on - this is possible but you'd get into overgiving rather quickly. Conversion would give you vision for a certain amount of time and I'd expect as your expertise grew then so too would your expertise in stretching out that time. On the other hand I'd say how intensively you were using it would affect the duration.

I think your examples are good and I'd go with the recipe as the most likely to be understood by the largest number of people in a formal teaching or book context, but you'd have to go with a particular context with a particular person in a more one to one setting.

At lower levels it would appear to be read only - but the ability to hide your aura at higher levels implies the ability to do more than this. But then at higher levels I suspect that the boundaries between the different magics starts to fray a little since I think they are sometimes a little artificial.

[Chandray]

Thanks again!

This was really helpful. I made a few more small adjustments. It really feels like I'm getting things in place now.