The woman looked at Amelia’s choice of book and was about to laugh, she had chosen a beginners book. Making it clear she was a new student. But the woman didn’t say a word, and patiently waited for the question Amelia was about to ask.
”what’s overgiving?” Amelia asked, and looked at the woman, who thought her answer over before she gave an answer ”In short, Overgiving means you used too much magic for your own body to handle. In other words, over used Djed.” ”Djed, as in essence?””essence? Well that could be one way to describe it, Djed is more of a primal energy, the beginning energy of all…so while essence is close, it’s not quite as fancy, is it?Back to overgiving…Generally, it is just a term that we use to describe the negative effect of a certain magical discipline left on a person” Amelia listened carefully, and was writing down what she found to be worth notice.
”the book said there are different types of overgiving””and so it is, each discipline leads to different types of damage that could be left to your body, mind, soul” she explained, while Amelia wrote down ”The multiple forms of overgiving, depend on the form of magic discipline it was caused by” ”what would be the most common types of these effects?” she asked, in order to make her notes as detailed as she could humanly manage. ”It depends on the discipline, for a Morpher, it might be the loss of his own form and morphing without reason, for an Auristic, might as well be the loss of his own senses and for a Projection user, the loss of his own physical body” Amelia copied her words on the paper, without realizing, she hadn’t mentioned hypnotism. ”and Hypnotism?” To this the woman paused before answering ”blood, it is common to have your body bleed, specifically your eyes and mouth, which are used to hypnotize…though the general, most common form would be the desire to cast more and more…” Amelia copied, and copied, but failed to catch the last sentence ”could you repeat the last part?”” …most common form would be the desire to cast more and more…”
This was all gold to Amelia. As much as she was terrified of the images that came vividly to her mind, she was eager to know more, more of what she could find out from the woman. ”there must be more, please , do tell” the woman just nodded before she began explaining ”Well, to be all detailed, there are 3 types of overgiving, the most common would be the first or the lesser, Mild overgiving, the type that can be healed with rest, a good meal and occasionally, if needed, medical assistance” she explained while Amelia wrote down ”there are 3 types of overgiving, the most common being Mild Overgiving, which can be healed by rest, a meal and medical assistance (if required)” The woman looked at how Amelia wrote everything down, and continued speaking on as she had finished the sentence ”The group which goes under it, would be A desire to cast more and more, hallucinations, sweet whispers, difficulty to cast spells, blood shut eyes, occasionally it could be anti-social behavior” quite the mouthful, but Amelia managed to catch everything. Though the concept of sweet whispering was odd.
”what is ‘Sweet Whispers’” Amelia asked, and the woman just smirked ”I’d say, any woman is a form of sweet whispers. But, in the magical society, it’s a term to explain hallucinations and suggestions done by your mind, that push you further and further into harming others, casting more or even harming yourself. Generally, not a good thing” she added as a small comment, not that it was necessary, Amelia had enough mind to realize that these whispers were nothing good.
”the next type would be Medium Overgiving, it holds a high chance of uncontrollable spells and castings, Bleeding that could be bout external and internal, Wounds if your chosen discipline is something like Reimancy…delirium and high levels of pain” Amelia wrote all of this, with a bit of shivers down her spine, her imagination was good and she could almost feel the pain these people could experience, once falling under the effects of these things. ”needless to say, this is a category that almost always requires medical assistance, possibly even a healer”
And now, was the time to explain the last group ”Sevres overgiving, is the highest form of overgiving, it has effects like insanity, loss of physical body, loss of consciousness, heavy bleeding, mutation and possibly death” the last word was like a bucket of water falling over Amelia. She knew it was dangerous, Clyde had explained that magic could kill, but she had missed the part of when overgiving, caused death by itself… ”what can a wizard do, to avoid the…to avoid overgiving in general?””use common sense, A mage should avoid using his powers as much as they can, as irresponsible usage leads not only to overuse, but a high risk of assassination” the woman explained, Amelia was sure to have her go now, but no, she stayed ”A reimancer should know these things, or are you not that interested in that form of study?” ”I was just recently initiated…” Amelia wondered, how could it be that this woman could tell, but she chose not to question, about that.
”You mentioned some other forms of magic, Morphing, Auristics and Projection…what are they?” ”Well, Morphing is the art that allows you to use your Djed, to change the form of your body, it could be a different human model you have researched, or an animal, for example, let you morph claws of change the shape of your nose…Auristics, just like it sounds, lets you read auras of people and objects to learn about them, a rather harmless form of personal magic to know, that can be quite usefull… Projection, is a risky discipline, you can learn to divide your astral body from your physical, use telekinesis and do a list of nifty things...but I wouldn't suggest you get into that this soon, leave it for latter, learn the basics and how your djed works”
”mmm…a few more questions, like…what would be some complimentary knowledge’s that would help with hypnotism?” Amelia wrote down ”skills that are need to improve the performance of Hypnotism” and waited until she could start listing it down ”That’s quite simple, any knowledge to understand the way a person thinks, learning psychology and analysis is golden, persuasion, interrogation, rhetoric and possibly even seduction helps, depending on what you are trying to do” the list was now complete. Amelia could head away and start reading something else, something, deeper in it.
”Are you already initiated to hypnotism? Or are your studies just theoretical so far?” the word ‘initiation’ was probably something Amelia didn’t wish to hear so much. Then again, if it was needed in order to use the discipline, it would probably be worth moving…and performing ”no, I’m not…””It’s one of the most…friendly forms of initiation, it takes a long series of meditation, in front of a mirror, until it all becomes black, meaningless…””black and meaningless?””that’s just the best way to explain it, the feeling is out of this world and you know how it feels only when you are done…” and with this, the woman stood up from the desk and left, wishing Amelia a good study session.
