Discussions and Annotations on the Metaphysical Functionalities and Processes Associated with the Divining Matters of Striking True - Part Eighteen: Mechanics of Enactment Continued

Discussions and Annotations on the Metaphysical Functionalities and Processes Associated with the Divining Matters of Striking True - Part Eighteen: Mechanics of Enactment Continued are one part of a series of lectures delivered to Rinn Zelnolar during their visit to Oxresh in 133WD.

## Description

One of thirty-three parts, Discussions and Annotations on the Metaphysical Functionalities and Processes Associated with the Divining Matters of Striking True - Part Eighteen: Mechanics of Enactment Continued follows on from Discussions and Annotations on the Metaphysical Functionalities and Processes Associated with the Divining Matters of Striking True - Part Seventeen: Mechanics of Enactment Defined, as delivered by the lecturer Pondificus Kruskal.

## Research

### Completed by Rinn Zelnolar (Downtime Complication)

[..."*and so, having spent a brief matter of hours considering the nuances on what is meant by the word True in the context of True Strike, and how duly a Strike is defined, specifying the differences between striking from range and from a position accordingly adjacent to the designation of a suitably valid target - with the further nuances of course of the difference between doing so with use of the arcane, as is typically assumed, and that of physical implements of functional violence, be they mundane in nature, made of steel and iron and perhaps even by some will of the makers bronze, or enchanted as more fitting of someone of spellcasting aptitude, we find ourselves moving onwards with zeal and vigour to the true, if you pardon the most rousing jape and flippancy, nature of the spell's enactment. Though it is surely to the disappointment of many a scholar or researcher of the nature of Divinus, the Keeper of Lost Pasts and Looming Futures, Sovereign of the Nychthemeron and The Three-Eyed Light's creation evades mortal understanding definitively and resolutely, it is to our collective joys that a great deal of discussion, both verbal, in auditoriums and lecture halls such as this, and contained so fervently in written prose that a myriad of of speculative theories do exist, and given the buzz and thrum of energy and excitement for such a topic, it seems only fitting to consider a great number of them in depth, so that their foundations, merits and confounding faults may be considered, weighed upon in light of evidence, conventional teachings and those more erratic and, I dare say, free-form and non-conventionalist in nature, which will in the most sweeping of generalisations be dismissed as maunder, patter and twaddle, do offer some interesting, if not misguided insights into incorrect assumptions made on such well-accounted studies*"...]

[..."*It is, naturally, when pondering of any spell deriving its origin from the so masterly prestigious and extensively and dutifully regarded School of Divination, so named for Divinus, he Keeper of Lost Pasts and Looming Futures, Sovereign of the Nychthemeron and The Three-Eyed Light, of course, to consult the writings of the Archmage Cosior Everard, as well have done before throughout this series of lectures, and I will say, with a confidence that would rival even that of a foresighted soul, ha, will be consulted once more again. The esteemed Archmage and Guildmaster of the Guild of the Seventh Lily, contained as we all well know within the borders of Gawylthlan, the Slate-Stone Kingdom, spent a number of years considering all the manipulations and augmentations of the arcane that fell within the banners of his specialty, and as before, naturally serves as a stalwart foundation upon which to build the basis of our understanding of the mechanics of enactment of the spell commonly known as True Strike. His understanding, astute as always, posits that through the ripples of the Weave that all manner of spellcaster reach forth towards, whether consciously through means of study and refinement, or through connection within the concepts of dynasty and bloodline, which regrettably are beyond the scope of these lectures and thus excluded for sake of making this topic unwieldy in length and threatening the understanding of its contents by containing meaningful details within tangential remarks, that the individual is granted a short-lived glimpse at the fated path set before their targetted quarry as determined from the Celestial Citadels of Starlight of the Mounting Heaves of Celestia, specifically that of the eye of five stars, the constellation visible plainly in the southern sky. In knowing the target's fate in the most immediate sense, amounting to but a few seconds, Everard remarks that it is surely in the caster's advantage to act quickly, lest the toil of the strain placed upon their mind by glimpsing at the divine plans and threads of Divinus, he Keeper of Lost Pasts and Looming Futures, Sovereign of the Nychthemeron and The Three-Eyed Light claim a dreadful toll"*...]

[..."*By contrast, in a suggestion comparable only in humour to the scale and intensity of the japes woven so dutifully and with tact throughout this series of lectures for your and my own enjoyments alike, are the series of suggestions made by the supposed and surely self-proclaimed expert Quinzi Billowbes. Quite rightly so, given the gnomish galoot's well-acclaimed proclivity towards the frequent engagement and likely over-indulgence breathing in the fumes generated by the burning of Songbird Dust, these are worth dismissing in pure instinct, however serve a purpose for sake of comparison, in the same way that in being asked to define what makes the colour periwinkle to someone truly and resolutely unfamiliar with the charming shade utilised upon both the banners of the Noble Houses of Charbafosse and Charboudin of the region formerly referred to as the Golden-Child of Ahlus, Atralran, a prudent scholar may define it by comparing it to things that it is not. If we consider Archmage Cosior Everard as giving us a palette filled with periwinkle, then surely Quinzi Billowbes presents lavender, fundamentally and preposterously different in every sense - scholarly and horticulturally. Nonetheless, for sake of and forever keeping the concept of brevity in mind as we have throughout, Billowbes' audacious proposal of the mechanics of enactment of the divination incantation True Strike, keeping reference to its metaphysical functionalities and processes as discussed herein, are pertaining to that of the power of True Names. While the power of True Names is well accounted for, once again beyond the scope of these lectures and thus likewise excluded for sake of artificially lengthening what is otherwise a succinct and tightly-formatted thirty-three lecture series, no known casting method associated with True Strike requires first and foremost an understanding or acknowledgement of the target's True Name, as clearly betrayed in the nature of its components, which are purely somatic in nature, and thus require no verbal utterance or inclination. The idea that the ancient and powerful magic of True Names extends simply to so-called naming a target with a gesture of a digit outstretched is a baffling concept, useful only for a rib-tickling guffaw after the senses find themselves dulled by several cups of strongwine. By as before, circling back once again, consideration of this only for sake of contrast, and providing a lesson of erroneous conclusions, unfounded speculation and flawed logic that would bring any reasonable and self-respecting scholar to tears - whether dismay, or mirthful amusement. As such, we will speak of it no further, continuing onwards to the suggestions of Aurelio Varon, based further in more astute considerations*"...]