"The working stats - handling, storage, and generation - respectively measure how much magic you can work with directly at once, how much magic you can have in your personal store without using it immediately, and how fast that personal store refills over time. People with high generation and low storage tend to leave a trail of loose magic wherever they go, but it's not harmful, just handy for your neighbours. Entanglement is how easily you can create or affect patterns—magic strongly prefers to work in ways it's already been used, and the higher your entanglement, the better you are at getting it to work in new ways and the more of an impression you'll make when you do."
"The theory is that Wellspring has had this kind of magic all along," Tilly puts in, "but Matilda was the first person in human history with a high enough entanglement to get it to work for her when it hadn't ever been used before and there weren't any existing patterns to go on."
"Or at least the first person with a high enough entanglement who really, really tried," says Matilda. "Magic was pretty hard work for me in the early days. And lastly, perception is how well you can tell what patterns are available, and it also relates to magic-seeing in general. If you have high perception, you won't need to rely on spell descriptions as much, because you'll be able to read the patterns intuitively."
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Date: 2013-10-29 10:13 pm (UTC)"The working stats - handling, storage, and generation - respectively measure how much magic you can work with directly at once, how much magic you can have in your personal store without using it immediately, and how fast that personal store refills over time. People with high generation and low storage tend to leave a trail of loose magic wherever they go, but it's not harmful, just handy for your neighbours. Entanglement is how easily you can create or affect patterns—magic strongly prefers to work in ways it's already been used, and the higher your entanglement, the better you are at getting it to work in new ways and the more of an impression you'll make when you do."
"The theory is that Wellspring has had this kind of magic all along," Tilly puts in, "but Matilda was the first person in human history with a high enough entanglement to get it to work for her when it hadn't ever been used before and there weren't any existing patterns to go on."
"Or at least the first person with a high enough entanglement who really, really tried," says Matilda. "Magic was pretty hard work for me in the early days. And lastly, perception is how well you can tell what patterns are available, and it also relates to magic-seeing in general. If you have high perception, you won't need to rely on spell descriptions as much, because you'll be able to read the patterns intuitively."