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Exposition part 1
Exposition part 1: The illustrated difference.
"Somewhere out there is a book with your name it." Just one of those sweet somethings whispered into the ears of children as they drift off to sleep amidst talk of demons and territories seceding from the Empire by the housewives of Historia. They don't believe it however; books are expensive, "How could my child have one with their name on it?" one of those women would ask rhetorically. And with a disposition like that she could have no clue, that the secret to a good human life is to follow one's dreams. What is revealed in dreams? Magic. Ordinary people believe the deceptions of the academics: "If you don't attain mastery of the skills taught in the curriculum then obviously you haven't studied the books you were allowed to rent from the school store. Nothing has been hidden from you in your career here as a student, no esoteric knowledge. All lies." The books are reminders. Common people think the places in their dreams are isolated from the locations of others such that even should they be found similar it can only be a coincidence -- the truth is, when you see a representation of a person in a dream their form might symbolize repressed desire but this can be dismissed by a surefire method, which begins by conferring with the other person, if they are alive, and if they are not, with their journal, (there will always be a journal or some keepsake to lend guidance then) and together at least two people can confirm a part of the dream landscape is real. Establishing this discovery is highly important for magical studies, unlike lucid dreaming --more like starring at a wall and seeing patterns where there are none -- because once a student has a firm grasp of the slightly-more nebulous-than-concrete existence of a dream structure then they may draw meaning from text not inherently related to them. After, when the subject is presented with a black book, they read a spell, say it, the effect occurs, and the words are gone. Staring into the abyss like that more than not takes the kind of mind with crowded, forlorn ancestry, filled with the words of cheap books desperately clutching at truth.
Books in general could in theory be produced via the printing press, but the nobility have taken to demanding a significantly less effective method, cracking down on underground development of a rival network; they are not written solely by hand, the scribes work in tandem with invisible familiars only useful for this particular kind of work. Why? Every once in a while when a team is not filling the orders of their noble patron, or the rare ambitious merchant, they generate a black book that is irreplaceable, bearing the name of a specific person or an ominous name for an event that is yet to unfold. In the case of the former lest the individual should be of an elevated station and seek fabled material the book is their life's story, knowledge of it and only it may allow them to change their fate; in the second, the impact of the event is guaranteed to be one of historical importance, and as often it is the case that there are secrets never to be revealed with such events, this type of book is not nearly as specific as the first kind, meant to give the reader alone an understanding of all the possible permutations.
Exposition part 1: The illustrated difference.
"Somewhere out there is a book with your name it." Just one of those sweet somethings whispered into the ears of children as they drift off to sleep amidst talk of demons and territories seceding from the Empire by the housewives of Historia. They don't believe it however; books are expensive, "How could my child have one with their name on it?" one of those women would ask rhetorically. And with a disposition like that she could have no clue, that the secret to a good human life is to follow one's dreams. What is revealed in dreams? Magic. Ordinary people believe the deceptions of the academics: "If you don't attain mastery of the skills taught in the curriculum then obviously you haven't studied the books you were allowed to rent from the school store. Nothing has been hidden from you in your career here as a student, no esoteric knowledge. All lies." The books are reminders. Common people think the places in their dreams are isolated from the locations of others such that even should they be found similar it can only be a coincidence -- the truth is, when you see a representation of a person in a dream their form might symbolize repressed desire but this can be dismissed by a surefire method, which begins by conferring with the other person, if they are alive, and if they are not, with their journal, (there will always be a journal or some keepsake to lend guidance then) and together at least two people can confirm a part of the dream landscape is real. Establishing this discovery is highly important for magical studies, unlike lucid dreaming --more like starring at a wall and seeing patterns where there are none -- because once a student has a firm grasp of the slightly-more nebulous-than-concrete existence of a dream structure then they may draw meaning from text not inherently related to them. After, when the subject is presented with a black book, they read a spell, say it, the effect occurs, and the words are gone. Staring into the abyss like that more than not takes the kind of mind with crowded, forlorn ancestry, filled with the words of cheap books desperately clutching at truth.
Books in general could in theory be produced via the printing press, but the nobility have taken to demanding a significantly less effective method, cracking down on underground development of a rival network; they are not written solely by hand, the scribes work in tandem with invisible familiars only useful for this particular kind of work. Why? Every once in a while when a team is not filling the orders of their noble patron, or the rare ambitious merchant, they generate a black book that is irreplaceable, bearing the name of a specific person or an ominous name for an event that is yet to unfold. In the case of the former lest the individual should be of an elevated station and seek fabled material the book is their life's story, knowledge of it and only it may allow them to change their fate; in the second, the impact of the event is guaranteed to be one of historical importance, and as often it is the case that there are secrets never to be revealed with such events, this type of book is not nearly as specific as the first kind, meant to give the reader alone an understanding of all the possible permutations.