Originally Posted by
pinetree
I wouldn't mind more examples.
Ok, but I really mean it about it not being useful. Because that's not the intention of this update at all.
| Name: Graad Magiexample |
Gender: Male |
Age: 77 |
| Circuit Quantity: C |
Circuit Quality: C |
Circuit Composition: Regular |
| Affiliation: Clock Tower |
Attribute: Earth |
Origin: Proliferation |
| Family data |
Clock Tower data |
| History: 900 years |
Rank: Count |
| Generations: More than he wants to admit |
Department: Astromancy |
Much like the older Escardos family, the Magiexample family is a lineage with a long history but no fixed thesis to call their own. Many of its successive heads plotted out projects to reach the Fount, but their plans always proved themselves to be unfeasible, shortsighted, products of misunderstandings, or just outright bad ideas. As the family as approaches its first millennium milestone, its successive heads grow increasingly more desperate to produce at least one project that sounds viable enough to grant them the basic rank of Cause so they don't feel like a legacy of bumbling idiots anymore.
Personal history and character
Graad's personality is a balanced mix of deep shame and baseless confidence. He had one nice-sounding idea in his younger days and dedicated himself to it with full faith that he is the one who will give the Magiexample a new direction and a new name. Older mages in the Clock Tower have already seen this exact character with this exact buildup before and wait with bated breath for the punchline.
Graad was full of drive and vitality in more ways than one. As he took over as the family head, he announced that the first step of his big project was to have 25 children. The more cynical onlookers doubted the fact that he had a plan for the Fount at all, claiming that he was only going with this direction because he wanted to have a lot of sex. This latter half of the accusation is not entirely untrue. He is a firm and proud believer in the philosophy that people should combine business with pleasure, and the only thing stopping him from espousing his belief is the fact that these suspicious statements would hurt his family's reputation further and that's the last thing he wants.
Eventually, he married the second daughter of a noble family and began to set his ritual in motion. His wife is in it out of curiosity for the punchline of the latest Magiexample flop and is not great at hiding that, but Graad believes the pleasure of proving her wrong in the end and the pleasure they offer each other in bed is more than worth the downsides.
At age 77, Graad finally has the youngest of his 25 being old enough to contribute to his ultimate ritual that will supposedly shape the future of the Magiexample family.
Magecraft
Birth Calculations
The magecraft that lead Graad to move the Magiexample family to the Department of Astromancy. The ancient art of astrology has the core purpose of examining a person's inborn traits by calculating the astral circumstances at the moment of their birth. However, by doing this math backward, it is possible to birth a baby with the exact desired attributes locating when exactly they must be born, and consequently when they must be conceived.
Through this method, Graad managed to birth 25 Earth attribute children each with a different combination of Circuit Quantity and Quality. Like he was filling a bingo card or completing a sticker album, Graad Magiexample generated one descendant of each possible Magic Circuit combination, without exception. This functioned as a decades-long ritual to imbue Graad's spirit with the concept of completion, which would be a necessary step in the completion of his project.
Advanced Projection formula
Gradation Air, the standard form of Projection magecraft, is a basic fundamental used to provide basic disposable tools for rituals. It's a skill famed for its inefficiency, as the objects constructed by it cannot last for very long. Graad saw hidden potential in this principle and adapted its formula to his needs. With his new brand of Projection, it's possible to create bricks that last a lot longer than the usual projected tool. They are not everlasting, as this is beyond both Graad's abilities and interests, but they can last a few days before they run out of magical energy and dissipate.
The drawback of his version is the expected one: since the bricks are loaded with more magical energy to last longer, they take more magical energy to produce. Magiexample bricks are extremely costly, to the point someone with As on both Circuit Quantity and Quality can produce only 25 with their whole daily stock of energy, while someone with double Es can barely manage 1.
Construction Magecraft
Construction. The act of producing complete structures out of raw materials. Graad's main use for this skill is to build a tower out of bricks. His children grant him a total of 225 bricks per day, which is obviously far from enough to build a tower, but since Graad spent decades engraving the concept of completion into his spirit, he was able to turn 3 or 4 days worth of bricks into a complete tower.
Retractable Tower of Babel
The final form of the spell Graad always dreamed of. The Magiexample family's climb into all the knowledge in the universe. The spell draws from the myth of the Tower of Babel, a tale from Genesis that describes mankind attempting to build a tower tall enough to reach God in Heaven. By climbing his tower, Graad reenacts the process of mankind approaching God, which gives access to any possible information on Earth.
The tale of Babel ends with God disabling communication between people when the tower gets too tall, but Graad's Retractable Tower is designed to counter that by being made of projected bricks. The Projection magecraft's notorious weakness of lacking permanence plays in Graad's favor. The older bricks regularly fade away, shrinking the tower below the point where it "angers god". The concept of completion keeps the tower's shape from crumbling with the missing pieces.
Graad's great plan is to raise and climb the tower every day when the older bricks are about to run out and grab one piece of knowledge a day, keeping him and his children safe from the language shuffle because the tower always shrinks away from Heaven. The process repeats until the Magiexample family crest accumulated all the knowledge available to them.
Now, this procedure raises one major question: decades of setup and risk of language shuffle aside, what makes accessing this universal library of knowledge different from having a standard Philosophy Key and accessing the Philosophy Foundation's universal library? The answer is nothing, but don't tell Graad that, it will really hurt his feelings.
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