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---Frost Breath---
An Ice-aligned Breath skill. Mana is used to lower the temperature of a volume of air within the body; often, any present moisture is condensed into the breath as well. At this rank, the skill deals smaller amounts of damage maintained over time, as ice builds up on the target. At this rank the breath must be concentrated into a line, though its effectiveness holds out up to a range of ten feet. Has a possibility of slowing down an effected target's movement. May be less effective in hot or dry environments. Negative reactions to Fire and Lightning magics, and under certain circumstances Water, Wind, and Metal elements can counter or interfere with this ability. This Skill would work very well against Nature and Earth aligned targets, and in most circumstances would also be effective against Water and Metal targets.
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As Torrent used her Frost Breath skill Oberon activated Magic Analysis and watched carefully as the skill created a layer of ice on the bark of the tree she was aiming at. It seemed more like a cone of frigid air than ice itself, though it certainly produced a lot of the latter when it hit something, and based on its description is was a combination of low temperature air and moisture which could slow whatever it hit. The negative reaction with fire and lightning was to be expected as were the strong effects it had on nature and earth, assuming nature meant things like plants and trees. The fact that it was sometimes effective and sometime not against water and metal depending on the situation was interesting and complicated things somewhat. He could also understand how wind might disrupt a breath skill like Frost Breath by helping to disperse the effect.

Oberon nodded as he listened to Torrent’s explanation of how she had created the skill, paying close attention to the elements and process involved and almost missing the detail about her living on the streets in the process. Once again he wondered just how old Torrent was exactly and what kind of life she had lived before this world; it didn’t sound like a particularly happy or safe one. The Sprite wasn’t sure what to do with that thought, or if he should do anything at all; Torrent seemed happy enough right now.

[color=f49ac2]“So you mixed water and air and then lowered the temperature?”[/color] Once again Torrent mentioned using feelings to invoke certain effects; using anger to create fire or using the memory of cold nights on the street to make ice. It didn’t seem like something he could do himself, nor did he even want to try; three was no doubt in his mind that it worked well for Torrent but he was more comfortable using his own method than something like that. It was clear that there was more than one way to create new spells and what worked for one person might not work for another, but there was no reason they couldn’t learn from each other anyway. [color=f49ac2]“You said you’d made ice, water, fire, fog and poison skills? That’s really impressive. Thanks for showing me Frost Breath; it gave me a few ideas to try. If you need any help with the Light stuff let me know.”[/color]

Leaving Torrent to her experiments Oberon flew back over to the stream so that he would have an available source of water for his attempts and thought about what he had just seen and heard. Torrent had made Frost Breath by combining water and air and lowering the temperature somehow to make an ability that froze the target. As far as he was concerned there shouldn’t be any reason why water by itself wouldn’t suffice, taking an Aqua Sphere for example and draining the heat from it should produce a ball of ice, the added air probably just helped to make the skill as diffuse as it was and turn it into a freezing stream of air rather than a projectile.

Oberon decided would start by trying to make water into solid ice, so he stepped up to the edge of the stream and case Aqua Sphere above the water’s surface, using the moisture in the air around the stream to ease the casting. He held the spell above his hand and concentrated on it as he started to imagine it growing colder, to visualise the heat leaving the ball of water. Then he tried to imagine the heat flowing into him, from the orb into his palm and then down through his arm. He tried to imagine himself growing warmer as the heat continued to leave the sphere as it began to freeze from within.

It was like a meditative exercise, but he wasn’t sure if just thinking about it would achieve anything. He tried to reach out to the Aqua Sphere with his senses, to feel the Mana within it like he had done with the air earlier, and then tried to feel the heat instead. Rather than just imagine it he tried to draw heat from the orb the way he drew Mana from his surrounding while Meditating or from sunlight when using Gather Light.

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Used "Magic Analysis IV" on "Frost Breath"
Used "Aqua Sphere"
Attempted to draw heat from "Aqua Sphere" to create ice
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