Well, this is a pleasant surprise. Mooncakes, lovely lantern strolls, romance under the full moon, it's that time of year again! :D
A special day for farmers harvesting their crops before the winter comes. A celebration, to a wonderful year of bountiful crops. Oh, also, full moons and reunions! :D
It's like a kind of Oriental Thanksgiving that happens before Winter. It's different from Westernized celebrations in that they rejoice over their hard work over the spring, summer and autumn seasons, instead of celebrating the fact that 'I survived to the iciest point of Winter because this year was great.'
In a sense, it seems rather haughty and arrogant that the Oriental would count their blessings before they even know how they're going to survive the harsh winter, to the point that they even deplete a good portion of their harvest's excess on the celebration. In another sense, it's better in that this Oriental variant of Thanksgiving relates and understands that celebrating when it's freezing outside is not as merry as celebrating before it's cold - After all, Thanksgiving is supposed to be a merry celebration not just for your family, but for all the families out there.
To each his own - I find the Oriental celebration merrier, and the Westernized celebration humbler. They both have their own benefits, so that's that. Only the fools would claim 'My Thanksgiving is better than yours', especially during the Oriental Thanksgiving where everyone shares the food. That would be so ugly on their part.
In any case! Enough of me rambling on and on. I apologize for that. I would also like to apologize for the fact that I am in fact not American, I follow the British English standard, yet this story is written in American English. 'Murrica. What can I say. Still, this next excerpt may be disturbing for your eyes, since I have written this little piece in British English.
Well, that's a comfortable weight off my chest. Allow me to present to you once again, more lore! :D This time, it's not an excerpt from a story, it's not like Diehl's story, it's not that plot. We're talking about a legend you've read before in the earlier chapters, and in Deku Up! 4, if you've read it. It's a simple summary of who he is, and what he's done. I'll do one for Diehl eventually, but in any case, I present, one of the greatest magi in WoP Quest history.
Katachi's a Magus, by the way. He'll get stronger, depending on and according to the route I'm writing. Magus, Wizard, Meister, Sorceror, Great Sorceror. Those are the five ranks. Bertund is a Sorceror.
Lotz, the Color-Blind Caster
Lore of Words of Power Quest
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Lotz is a Great Sorceror, and one of the most powerful ones, throughout the course of history. He's been known to create many, many strange, obscure forms of magic that doesn't make much sense - Quite expected, when you're dealing with a colour-blind and deaf autistic person who sees magic in the form of colour.
He is both a creator of great magic, and a formidable wielder of its forces. If you're going to read Deku Up! 4 on my blog, Words of Power Quest... Which you ought to be reading from, since you can get gold-coloured text here instead of Wattpad's deadpan black text allday errday. You're going to notice that I pointed out a few magics he conjured up.
Layering, is essentially him trying to make a colour more obvious by placing it multiple times in quick succession. Just as putting multiple pieces of transparent red sheets together makes the red that much thicker, plating the magic several times over a certain spell makes it that much more potent. This technique is probably very familiar with you, since most characters nowadays have powers like that.
(I'm looking at Zenzizenzizenzic, looking at Itsuwa from TAMNI on her strengthening of her spear, I'm looking at One Piece, their Rokushiki's Soru that kicks a surface 10 times in rapid succession, it's been used. So there.)
It is quite different, however, like, layering 6 Kaba runes together on a single spot increases its power linearly by 6 fold, but layering a single Kaba rune over many, many tinier Kaba runes increases the explosive power exponentially since you're setting off a thousand by activating only one, and that increase is probably around a 4 or 5 digit number. The rune's size doesn't matter - Its potency does. So, in theory, if a Runemaster prepped beforehand, he could like, set 10,000 Uzab runes, which on a modern scale outputs 970V each, and shock someone utterly for 9.7MV of electricity. Even if your natural resistance is like, 100kohms, that attack alone is enough to kill you a few thousand times over.
Tonsilfuse is a counter-spell made specifically for magi whom rely on a long chant or recital of an excerpt. Lotz sees magic as colour; When he sees the build-up of magic around your tonsils while you're speaking through your vocal chords, he can use his magic to expand and bind the tonsils together, creating a wall of tonsil flesh that blocks your mouth. Essentially, it's a silencing spell that stops you from closing your mouth fully and muffling anything you say.
You can guess. Combining Layering and Tonsilfuse together causes the tonsils to swell so much they block the wind canal, which effectively acts as a suffocation spell. That is why he is a feared sorceror - Most magics are cast by chanting and letting others hear what you say to reinforce their image power. Lotz having a magic that can permanently seal almost all verbal magic incantations away is terrifying for any magus to go against him.
Atradna is the palindrome of Andarta, the Celtic warrior goddess, whom is believed to be associated with the bear - An aggressive, brutal force. Atradna is essentially a spell that reverses Magic Enhancing - Where a warrior fuses his body with magic to increase his strength, Lotz can, by setting many tiny magic flags within his opponent, redirect and reverse the flow of magic, forcibly imploding anybody who attempts to fight with both might and magic.
The origin of Atradna came from Lotz noticing that a warrior overflowed with magic acted with the flow of magic - The intensity of that magic decided how his strength fluctuated. So see, Lotz, the crazy bastard, what he did had been simple - He enhanced the warrior's strength himself, literally casting Magic Enhancing on the warrior to a point beyond his magus companion's strength, and reversed it all in one go.
The warrior's imploded corpse wasn't pleasant to look at. It's nasty. Very, very nasty. So much, that the magus simply stared at Lotz in disbelief, and surrendered immediately. A few weeks after that, he found out that simply using minute amounts of magic wisely to change the enemy's flow instead is enough to induce a similar, less gory effect, while conserving his own energy at the same time.
An autistic, colour-blind and deaf man is more conservative about his magic, than we are about the amount of water we use for showering. Is that insanely amazing or what?
His simple discovery of three spells has made him practically invincible towards 80% of the world's warriors, thieves and magi, which is why he's a really scary person to go against. And, he's known for creating a lot of weird, odd-ball spells, like Creeping, Tantalize and Obscure, to name a few of his six hundred over spells.
Did I mention that he's also the frickin' creator of the Obscuration rune? Normal humans don't create runes, they don't create magical language. That title belongs only to Gods and Legends. And he, as an autistic, colour-blind and deaf HUMAN, added vocabulary to fishin' magical language. That has got to be one of the most badass things I have ever imagined.
I give you, the lore of Lotz, ladies and gentlemen. Lotz the BAMF. Lotz the ifl Luka boy swagmaster.
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