The Tome of Brotherhood (Legends Are Made Book 2) by Patrick Michael

Author:Patrick Michael [Michael, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2023-08-09T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

SOFIA’S STORY

5th Witchfire, 1502 AE

Sofia yawned and stretched, making the unilateral decision to lounge in her bed without opening her eyes for a few minutes longer.

A frown creased her lips as she first considered all the information about magic Cirrus had explained to them over the last few days. How it differed from the current information she had read, as well as what Corym had informed her about the subject. There were plenty of similarities, but the dragoness’ explanation seemed so much more in-depth while still only scratching the surface.

Whereas what was previously being taught to Corym and found in most modern books tended to say, “This is the way it functions, so it has to be done this way,” the latter explanation was more streamlined but rigid. The former seemingly allowed for more experimentation and growth.

As hard as I try, I can’t figure out why the first would naturally change into the second. I feel like something forced the change.

Ideas evolved over time, and fifteen hundred years was a lot of it. Sofia ran across it all the time while reading older books and treatises. Some of the word’s meanings had changed so much over the intervening years that a person needed to find the older definition or the words may not only be incomprehensible, but actually seem to say the opposite of what was once intended.

Normally, I’d think for new ideas and methods to be accepted, they’d have to make something easier, faster, or more powerful. Not harder, slower, and weaker. That makes no logical sense.

Yet Sofia had seen the magic that practitioners currently wielded. She had also seen what Cirrus could do with a few negligent thoughts.

And according to both Kemuri and Cirrus, she hadn’t even been trying. She’d been testing them.

That showed there was simply no real comparison between them.

The dragoness’ magic was vastly more powerful, and Sofia knew it wasn’t only because Cirrus was a dragon. It was because of how the dragoness had learned magic in the first place.

Which once again begged the question. Why did everyone really stop teaching magic that way?

Sofia concluded it couldn’t only be because of the devastation magic had caused during the Great War. That might make sense if only the teachings of destructive magic had been limited. To make those spells seemingly take longer to cast and be less effective.

Yet that wasn’t the case.

No, even curative spells or spells to rid diseases were taught in a way that made them take more time. So, if the only reason was to limit the destructive potential of magic, why not keep teaching those beneficial spells in the same ways as previously? Why should a child with a broken arm writhe in pain for fifteen minutes while a spell to heal it was cast when the people Kemuri and Cirrus talked about, and indeed Cirrus herself, could fix significantly worse injuries in a few seconds?

None of it made sense.

Then, there’s the story Kemuri finished telling us. Pulses of magic that could be felt miles away? That sort of thing is unthinkable today.

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