[quote=@GreivousKhan]

Tablurath is scary like that.

Well you are already doing better than that Raelis fellow. 
[/quote]

Good to know.

Before an argument can arise, I think it would be fair to say your swords shouldn't be able to cut through the rock Metz manipulates. I could buy the swords effect working on fire water or air pillars, if they cut the power source away, however the earth circle works from the bottom and then the momentum carries it up, its not a continuous effect and the rock summoned is ultimately just ordinary rock. (Just read the swords cs, apparently they can cut through rock, but I'm assuming there is a certain degree of realism to how far they can cut through solid rock, seeing as how it's less about sharpness and more about force and your character doesn't seem to have excessively superhuman strength.)

Also, you may have picked it up in the last fight, but the way Metz' pillar spell interacts is that he pictures a spot in his mind and then casts the spell with the desired effect, the magic only enters the spot he has chosen once the spell is finished and has no prior signature there until that point. Once it's placed you can see it with your magical sight, or when it's in his hand, but you could probably guess both those things without magic sensing.