Eldon was amazed when he personally witnessed the contortions of the hand. The fingers, the skin, the bones, twisting and warping like some sickening image he could only experience in some insane dream, yet it was right here, right in front of him. Eldon found himself actually distressed by it, though he did not respond, he could only stare in disgusted amusement. Forget what he originally thought, he wasn't going to learn Morphing, never. Even after Conrad had obviously finished, Eldon could only stare, trying to believe what he had seen. "Impressive..." It was all he could say, and it was the truth, but still, disgusting sounded vaguely familiar in that tone of voice.
"I suppose it's my turn share then." Eldon, now recovered from that odd sight, which he was intentionally avoiding with his eyes now, walked off, only to return briefly with another empty barrel, he set it down next the barrel he had recently filled, and met the demon bird over. "I hope you are translate quickly Sam." Eldon grin and he allowed his right arm to fall limp into the barrel, his left extended out to Conrad, a half fist, half open palm was formed as his fingers gripped around an invisible, intangible, circular object.
"For a scholar of the magic arts, it should be fairly easy to explain. I won't need to use a ton of metaphors and such. Once initiated into Reimancy, a person has the ability to create Res from the body. Res, which is the energy or substance that fuels the elemental construction of Reimancy, looks like this." As he was talking, the ethereal appearing green gel-like substance began to form in his hand, filling that spherical shape his partial clenched hand was molded around. The substance could be altered into a gaseous state, but the creation of mist, though possible, didn't do much good for him. It was water they wanted to see.
The ball of res remained suspended in his hand, not by the strength of his fingers, it would easily slip through if that were the case, but by his own will. it was his res, it was under his control. He waited a moment for Sam to translate thus far his lesson to Conrad, then continued. "Once the res is formed, and you never want to form it inside your body, the creator can take the res and give it elemental properties." Eldon felt a moist sensation on his hand as the outer layer of his 'res ball' had shifted into that of water, pure, clean, Drykas Created water. The core was next to alter, and Eldon allowed the ball of water to break shape and collapse into the bucket. There was a thump, but that wasn't nearly enough water to impact the void of said container. It would require much more. "Once you learn Reimancy, it's simple to perform a single element. Controlling the element, managing the balance between giving and overgiving, and producing more than one, are all for more advanced Reimancers."
Eldon frowned as he looked up at Sam, could his cousin truly think of him as such a great cousin, wonderful and all, when he could only do water? What if he could manage to manipulate the earth, or maybe produce fire? Eldon felt a smirk crawling over his face as he felt the strange sensation to master the art of reimancy as quickly as possible. "Tell him that this lesson was brief, and I know that, but if he has questions, I'd be happy to answer them to the best of my abilities. |