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Jack tarried by the door, listening to the supposed "report." Nothing he did not already know about, aside perhaps from the missing kids.
He led mama upstairs to Doak's room, and rapped politely on the door.
Doctor Doak continues his studies, reading Volume 3, which had to do with drawing on mana wells directly from plant sources.
He also skims over the books, getting an idea of what each one covers:
(i) deals with properties of plants which can be used to both amplify and limit the magical potential of magic practitioners
(ii) influencing the growth, fertility and yield of plants through magical means
(iii) drawing on mana wells directly from plant sources
(iv) shaping and manipulating different plant parts to do your bidding, focus on basics every nature mage should know like entangling roots, advancing fruit development, moving branches/leafs to create cover etc
(v) advanced study, specializing in one family of plants for maximum potency, cites example of wizards who specialized in ferns, vines, orchids, evergreen trees, Phallaceae mushrooms etc
(vi) limitations of nature magic, and dangers associated with it and the potential corruption it can cause.
((Does section vi go some way toward explaining what’s happening with the corruption we saw from the tower?
What about the corrupted forest creatures?))
((Volume Six deals with disastrous application of nature magic. Plants growing too big and disturbing ecology of that environment, plants becoming aggressive, plants dying, trying to force certain unnatural processes like fruiting in winters for summer fruiting plants, that kind of stuff. And how to restrict and undo damage by such actions if they have already occurred.
Lastly, it deals with long lasting damage by particularly negligent or malicious acts of nature magic. These can leave scars in an area for generations or more. However, due to the nature of nature magic, no harm is irreversible or permanent and can be fixed, given enough time. In this case though (up to the information gleaned by village personnel and adventurers) the "corruption" is getting stronger, and is not affecting just plant life but animal as well. There is more than one branch of magic at work here, or is the result of a particularly strong magic practitioner or magical artifact.
This uncertainty is part of the reason the adventurers have been called to investigate, it's safe to say that an instructional book is unable to provide beyond rudimentary details about the corruption in the forest, the likes of which local denizens are unable to deal with.))
You gotta take care of yourself before you can take care of other people, man.
He backs out the door, looking at Flo until he is out, then hurries back to his room to resume his studies.
If nothing else, he'd learn where his newfound skills could take him.
Doctor Doak continues his studies, reading Volume 3, which had to do with drawing on mana wells directly from plant sources.
He also skims over the books, getting an idea of what each one covers:
(i) deals with properties of plants which can be used to both amplify and limit the magical potential of magic practitioners
(ii) influencing the growth, fertility and yield of plants through magical means
(iii) drawing on mana wells directly from plant sources
(iv) shaping and manipulating different plant parts to do your bidding, focus on basics every nature mage should know like entangling roots, advancing fruit development, moving branches/leafs to create cover etc
(v) advanced study, specializing in one family of plants for maximum potency, cites example of wizards who specialized in ferns, vines, orchids, evergreen trees, Phallaceae mushrooms etc
(vi) limitations of nature magic, and dangers associated with it and the potential corruption it can cause.
In any event, what would you prefer that the hatred of homosexuals and homoromantics be called?
But she's a black woman who broke up the royal family and is currently leading the nation's darling, Prince Harry, around by the nose.
“What the f-” he stands up suddenly.
The woman must have done something, there’s no way he could do magic. Unless the physical property of the world itself changes everything in it, but that doesn’t make sense and he couldn’t test it, having no way to leave yet.
He storms back to the library, testing theory number one.
“What did you do to me? I did magic! I can’t be doing magic, I’m not from here!”
Flo blinks confusedly at Doctor Doak.
"I didn't do anything to you, I only checked your mana reserves, which is something you had in abundance before coming here."
She crosses her arms.
"Magical ability isn't something I can just create within people at my whim, you know. Well, not for free, anyway..."
