Styles

**Styles** or **Magic Styles** are a number of techniques that a magician uses to activate magic.

There are four styles, those being: **Visionary Style; Source Style; Conductor Style**; **Mixed Style**.

## Visionary Style

### **History**

The **Visionary Style** was invented approximately 2 years after magic was discovered (498 years ago). it was invented by **Hepha**. Hepha was known as the **Brain of Magic**, he committed himself to learning as much about magic as possible. While learning about it, he discovered that magic uses incantations to activate, so he held his hand out and said ***Bekuyaku*** which froze the pond he was aiming at. This was the first spell ever discovered, a spell of **Ice Magic**, a sub-element of **Water Magic**.

### How To Use

Visionary Style requires one to speak an incantation out loud, the user must then use their hand/s to aim at what, who or where they want to use it. To make the spell way more effective, they must imagine what it looks like, this is what the professional magicians that use Visionary Style usually do for show or for combat.

### Trivia

* Visionary Style is the most common magic style out of the four, it is what's usually taught by the adults. It does not need anything outside the body such as a sword.
* Visionary Style allows the user to use spells strongly than when used in other styles since it is spoken.
* Visionary Style requires the most control out of the 4 styles.

## Source Style

### History

The **Source Style** was invented 276 years after magic was discovered (244 years ago). It was invented by **Cato Hepha**, a descendant of **Hepha** from the **Hepha Dynasty**. It was invented when Cato Hepha got a really bad sore throat. since he was frustrated, he grabbed onto his chair and used fire magic on it, it lightly burned the chair while it uncontrollably burned the floor. It later burned his house.

### How To Use

Source Style requires an item and ones internal monologue, since Source Style does not use the voice of a magician, it uses the internal monologue of a magician to activate the spell through an item. The item however has to be made of hard material, wood is out of the question. Source Style is mainly used by professional magicians who don't want others to know what spell they will cast which was the main problem of the Visionary Style and the Conductor Style.

### Trivia

* Source Style is the third oldest/second most recent style to be invented.
* Assassins and army veterans make up the majority of the Source Style users around the world.
* Source Style is the second most difficult style to master.

## Conductor Style

### History

The **Conductor Style** was invented 25 years after magic was discovered (475 years ago). It was invented by **Hepha**. He invented it when he realized that if magic can go through soil like what Earth Magic users do, then it would only make sense that magic can go through other things and use it as a safer middle ground between man and magic and use it to control and centralize magic better.

### How To Use

Conductor Style requires an item and the magician's voice, it uses the same concept of the Visionary Style but with an item. It could be a sword, a wand, anything that will not immediately break when magic channels through.

### Trivia

* Conductor Style is the second oldest style to be invented.
* The Conductor Style is common among the magician nobles around the world.
* While the Visionary Style is the most common, many of the skilled Visionary Style users switch to Conductor Style.

## Mixed Style

### History

The **Mixed Style** was invented 476 years after magic was discovered (24 years ago). It was invented by **Ludolf Marsares** of the famous military dynasty, the **Marsares Dynasty**. It was invented as an experiment to see if a magician that knows all three styles can mix it up and form techniques that have never been used before. By the time he finished experimenting, he invented the Mixed Style which made way to the ability to use other body parts instead of the hand to cast magic among other new methods that fall under the Mixed Style.

### How To Use

To use Mixed Style, the magician must know the other three styles: **Visionary Style**; **Source Style**; **Conductor Style**. There is no exact way by word to learn how to use Mixed Style, it just comes to the user naturally when they seek to use this style.

### Trivia

* Mixed Style is the most recent style to be invented.
* Mixed Style is the hardest style to obtain.
* Only a very few amount of people know how to use Mixed Style, making the style very rare.
* Mixed Style is best for combining magic fighting and physical fighting, thus making it the most flexible style.

## Notable Users Of Each Style

### Visionary Style

* Zephyr van Doren
* Hepha

### Source Style

* Minerva Grosvenor
* Sévir van Doren
* Cato Hepha

### Mixed Style

* Ludolf Marsares
* Sévir van Doren