Aaron Winsett
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Post by Aaron Winsett on Feb 21, 2011 19:27:27 GMT -6
OoC: You double posted. lol
Aaron continued to rub his chin as Wyatt spoke. Perhaps there was more to it than skill. That would explain a good deal about why it wasn't accomplished more often. Or it could simply be another lost art. Mages of the ancient days, had been incredibly powerful.... Well, the ones who history remembered were, anyways. Perhaps it would take that strength to manage something on par with a legendary weapon.
"Hmmm... When I use magic, the books can be compared to the tongs which you use to handle hot metals. It's a tool used to manipulate...." Aaron waved his hand around in a circular gesture, at a loss for words. "Well, magic." It was so much more than just that word could explain, but it wasn't something easily explained, nor would going down that line of thought help him keep himself on topic.
"Yes actually. I do have a few ideas, although I've not got much of a basis for them. Just reasoning and guessing based on the feel of things." Aaron took a few steps around the area, keeping clear of Wyatt's equipment as best he was able.
"Magic isn't a premade material. It requires instructions, adjustments, if you will, to become what a mage makes out of it. So, from that knowledge, I could guess that some way of containing the magic within the weapon would need to be developed. Then some way of controlling how it was released.... A spell crafter would be able to guess more than I, but few of them are willing to talk to mages as young as I am."
The mage looked side long over at his red-headed friend. " 'Too reckless', they call me. Hmmph. I've heard fair amounts of whispering about older magic users making mistakes."
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Post by Wyatt on Feb 22, 2011 22:08:34 GMT -6
Wyatt listened to Aaron's explanation, it seemed a bit over his head. Magic wasn't in the books? Then where was it...everywhere?
"Hmm, so the books let you give it shape, or control it. The magic itself comes from somewhere else, yeah?" He thought for a second. "The magic is just like the metal, right? You take a pure form, meld it to be what you want it to with your 'tools', and then you use it as such." That actually made a lot of sense.
"If it's like that, maybe similar techniques used to make alloys would work on them. Like, combining the magic into the sword as the metal is being smelt. That way, much like the copper, the magic will bind to the iron and combine with it...maybe? Not like I know anything about your magic. Worth a try you figure?"
Wyatt rested his hand in his chin, thinking on this new idea.
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Aaron Winsett
Sage
Seeker of Knowledge
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
Posts: 419
Sacae Fame: 1
Lycia Fame: 2
Profession: Student of Magic
OoC Alias: Feldsky
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Post by Aaron Winsett on Feb 24, 2011 18:59:06 GMT -6
"Hmm... let me think for a moment...." Aaron put his mind fully to the task. He needed to come up with a way to bind the magic into the weapon somehow, and all he had to go on were guesses, and hints.
"...If I could use an arcanic compression method to bind the mystic periphery to the shape of the weapon, then that might contain the magic. It makes perfect sense, but then why wouldn't someone else have managed that? There must be some reason that it's not done like that, because I can't.... Uh... I think we should try it. Experience is the best teacher."
Aaron certainly knew the dangers of experimenting with magic, but he also knew how to limit the danger. Limit the energy to limit the effect. He'd just keep a tight grip on how much energy he gathered up for the spell.
Enchantment, actually. Aaron corrected himself, excitement trying to leak through into his features. He wasn't even sure if his grandfather had tried something of this nature.
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Post by Wyatt on Feb 27, 2011 20:07:07 GMT -6
Wyatt listened to Aaron mumble and talk to himself. He didn't even try to understand what he was saying, because it was definitely beyond him.
"Well, if you want to try something out, I'm game. I made this a while back." Wyatt said, pulling a small Iron Sword from his pack. "I wouldn't let anyone else use it, since I'm not confident enough in my work yet, but it should be good for an experiment."
He laid it out on the makeshift work bench he hat set up, and then placed his hammer onto his shoulder. "So..how do you imagine this would work? I beat your magical fire into it and we see what happens?" Wyatt had to laugh. This was so insane. But Aaron was right with one part.
You didn't get it right if you were afraid to get it wrong.
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Aaron Winsett
Sage
Seeker of Knowledge
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
Posts: 419
Sacae Fame: 1
Lycia Fame: 2
Profession: Student of Magic
OoC Alias: Feldsky
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Post by Aaron Winsett on Feb 27, 2011 23:06:08 GMT -6
Aaron gave a cursory glance to the blade, but it soon became obvious that he didn't know the first thing about how to judge their quality. It probably showed in his blank inspection of the weapon.
"Well... My first thought would be that weapons would be enchanted at the same time that they are made, but I have no real basis for that belief." Aaron puzzled over where to start.
With the weapon already formed most of the work would be falling to him. Now... What sort of work would it be....
"Uhhh... is there a place to heat it a bit? It won't be a problem to start a fire." Aaron grinned, indicating his tome as he withdrew it from his satchel.
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Post by Wyatt on Feb 27, 2011 23:15:43 GMT -6
Wyatt grinned as Aaron attempted to look over the weapon, very well aware that Aaron knew as much about smithing as he did about magic.
"Hmm? Oh you want to heat it, just a sec." Wyatt moved over to his large pack and knelt down, gripping something large and lifting with a grunt. He lifted a miniature anvil out of the pack and brought it down onto the ground with a loud thud as it landed on the dirt. The massive hunk of iron had to weigh over seventy pounds! Wyatt wiped a bead of sweat from his brow as he then placed the sword on the anvil. He also set up an odd addition to the anvil that grasped the swords handle, keeping it from slipping off.
"Well, normally I'd use a furnace, but since that is you this time, that shouldn't be needed right? Ready when you are. We'll see if I can work the magic into the seems in the metal."
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Aaron Winsett
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Seeker of Knowledge
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
Posts: 419
Sacae Fame: 1
Lycia Fame: 2
Profession: Student of Magic
OoC Alias: Feldsky
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Post by Aaron Winsett on Feb 27, 2011 23:51:11 GMT -6
"Now, I would hate having to carry that." was all Aaron had to say in reply to seeing the red-headed smith heft out the small anvil. "I imagine it's an excellent tool for your trade though?"
The mage began flipping through his tomes, setting them out to rest on the work bench which had been occupied by the sword a moment before. He was marking specific passages, which he expected to have relevant bits of spells for this.... endeavor, and he wasn't limiting himself to the Fire tome. He also pulled out the less battered, less marked up Elfire tome which he'd carried from Laus.
"Heat this evenly, yes?" Aaron wasn't a smith, but he was pretty sure that that was what he was supposed to do. Even if it wasn't, he was reasonably sure that an imbalance of magic in a single part of the weapon would prove catastrophic. With even more care than normal, the mage started to check and recheck the knowledge in his head, making sure that he wasn't going to end up with something out of control, as he lay his hand on one of his tomes and began.
Visually, a fire seemed to surround the weapon, but to Aaron there seemed to be lines of red and orange lacing up and down the blade. He was attempting to heat the weapon enough for it to start glowing. At that point, he'd begin the more complex measures, trying to force some variant of a fire spell to bind with the weapon before him.
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Post by Wyatt on Mar 5, 2011 0:37:23 GMT -6
Wyatt watched the metal carefully as Aaron began heating it, the magical fire covering the weapon. He also noticed the lines of heat moving through it, but his keen eye for metallurgy saw something else. The metal was starting to blister on the side, as if something on the inside was pressing out with great force. Even if this worked, the weapon would be brittle and fragile, effectively useless.
Wyatt leveled his hammer, and brought it down onto the heated blade, attempting to force the boil of the metal back flush with the surface. The reaction, however, was not what he had expected. The magical fire, having nowhere to go, burst out the side of the weapon, showing him with embers and shards of metal. Due to the direction he hit it from, Aaron would be spared such injury, but Wyatt had a bit of singed hair and a few shards of metal peppering his skin.
"Agh..." he groaned, knocking away some of the splinters with his hands. "Well, that didn't work to well. And that was one violent reaction, the metal was gonna break apart as it was."
He stared down at the remains of the blade, looking like it had exploded from the inside out. "Man, I've never even seen anything like that."
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Aaron Winsett
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Seeker of Knowledge
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
Posts: 419
Sacae Fame: 1
Lycia Fame: 2
Profession: Student of Magic
OoC Alias: Feldsky
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Post by Aaron Winsett on Mar 5, 2011 1:31:49 GMT -6
Everything seemed to be working fine to Aaron, from his perspective of limited knowledge. The magic definitely seemed to be having some sort of effect on the sword. He couldn't be sure exactly what, but he knew something was going on.
Then he noticed something altering. The magic he was feeding into the weapon seemed to be growing or changing somehow, but the mage was not responsible. Some sort of reaction to my improvisation?
Then, Wyatt hit the blade. Aaron recoiled as fragments exploded, showering everywhere! Wild, uncontained magic flew up into the sky, freed from the mage's strange attempts at binding it. When the green-haired mage recovered from his surprise, and lowered his arms from sheltering his face, all that was left of the sword was a sizzling set of fragments.
"I've not seen anything like it either." The green-haired mage muttered to himself, hungrily studying the results of the experiment. "Not my best work." He concluded dryly.
"Are you alright?" Aaron was still puzzling over how a reaction that potent could have happened. He he'd thought that he'd had it limited.
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Post by Wyatt on Mar 5, 2011 20:24:39 GMT -6
Wyatt coughed once or twice, plucking a stray shard of metal from his skin and flicking it away.
"Yeah, I'm fine, but did you see that?" He said, dusting away the soot and charred metal to look at what remained. "It was bulging and blistering, that's pretty unusual. But it wasn't that hot, I mean..." Wyatt dusted some more soot off. "I've been burned a lot worse then that...so what...caused that?"
He pondered for a moment, then spoke. "What happened, is a more flashy, but similar effect to something I've seen before. See, if you put the heavier metal on the inside of a weapon, and the weaker metal on the outside, when you heat it the metal layer doesn't have the strength to hold it in, and it cracks. This was more then a crack, but it seemed like a similar idea. The stuff on the outside wasn't strong enough to hold in what was on the inside, in this case the magic. But..."
He cupped his chin, thinking. "It's not like the center of the weapon would be made of magic and the outside would be common iron...wait..." Wyatt snapped his fingers for a second. "Hold on a moment, I think I just thought of something."
He walked over to the shattered sword and picked up the hilt. "When you hear about these magic weapons, they are superbly crafted, super strong and durable. Something like that wouldn't be made out of iron. It might be that the metal isn't strong enough, even if we did know what we were doing."
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Aaron Winsett
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Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
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Profession: Student of Magic
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Post by Aaron Winsett on Mar 6, 2011 10:50:25 GMT -6
Aaron listened to Wyatt's supposition, and well, it made sense. Magic tools always seemed to be very fancy looking. Even healing staves always had some form of ornamentation on them.
The green-haired clapped his arms on the other man's shoulders, shaking him excitedly. "Wyatt! You're a genius! Something caused the magic to explode out, shattering the weapon. -"
Aaron cut off suddenly though, because a thought occurred to him. "Hmm... I can't explain why it did what it did though. I was trying to... bind...." The mage cut himself off before he could start rambling on and on.
"Well, clearly I still have a lot to learn." Aaron bit softly on one of his knuckles, considering what would happen next. Before he could try again, he'd need to secure another weapon to test it on. And something made of some stronger stuff too.
"Wyatt, could you work silver, if I managed to secure some? Do you think that would even be strong enough?"
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Post by Wyatt on Mar 10, 2011 21:02:00 GMT -6
"Silver?!" Wyatt echoed. He'd come to Bern looking for good steel, but Aaron wanted to deal with Silver? Those were weapons fit for nobility! "I don't know, I've never worked with it. I imagine with a little bit of time to figure it out I could do it. Why, you think it might be better at holding the magic?"
Wyatt's understanding of magic was limited, but they did seem to agree that iron wasn't going to do the job. But still, what quality of metal made it good for holding magic? If it was something about the metal, it should be a measurable quality he could find out about.
He rubbed his chin for a moment, considering. "I wonder...what is it about the metal that makes it able to hold the magic? Strength? It's composition? Or something else...?"
He seemed lost in his own though, though not as detailed as Aaron's. More repeating the same question over and over again while thinking about the metallic properties he knew of. None of them seemed like they'd have an effect, but his magic knowledge was too pitiful to know for sure.
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Aaron Winsett
Sage
Seeker of Knowledge
Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.
Posts: 419
Sacae Fame: 1
Lycia Fame: 2
Profession: Student of Magic
OoC Alias: Feldsky
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Post by Aaron Winsett on Mar 12, 2011 23:48:51 GMT -6
Aaron continued to let his mind roam the topic of magic infused weapons, eventually catching onto what Wyatt was saying. The mage didn't know.
"I don't know, Wyatt, but I'd rather try with silver and fail then try with steel, and then try with silver, and fail with both."
The mage racked his mind for any legends he may have heard about the construction of anything that may be remotely involved. Mostly that involved the legendary weapons from the scouring, as he was most familiar with those, but he just couldn't get any usable results just then.
The mage sighed to himself, resigned to put his experiments on the back burner for a time. "Regardless, hanging around here won't get us anything. It will take time and travel for me to work up the funds for some silver. Perhaps some advice from a smith who's worked with it could help too.... And a safer forge situation. We don't need a repeat of what happened here."
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