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Hmm... Her hand signs could be one of the runic systems for the Arcane Tongue, kind of like a magical version of sign language. In written form, it could look something like Kanji, with different slashes and curves matching the formation of the hands and fingers. That would actually allow her to use magic that maybe she isn't able to write down, like: "Crap, I forgot my notebook!" and she uses hand signs to shape out the runes instead. 

That being said, I've been thinking about the individual spells, and I'm wondering if it would be easier for storyflow to just lump similar effects together. For instance, instead of having stuff like Fireball, Burning Hands, Fire Blast, etc. as separate spells, maybe have those together like Firebending in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Manipulating existing Fire/Air/Water/Earth or converting Mana into those elements could be done at will, kind of like how powers work in X-Men, but through a Conduit. And then the more complex stuff could be where written spells in the Arcane Tongue come into play. 

So, if you have a magic stick, you wouldn't necessarily need to have a specific spell attached to it, you could just use it to fling out Force Pushes at will or something. That was fall under Universal Magic, and if you choose Air Magic as your elemental affinity, you could jump and flip around like an airbender and also use lightning with your staff, kinda like this:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/-TsIppx6r-I[/youtube]

And you could also have Arcane Tongue runes tattooed on her arm or wrists to fire Force Pushes out of her hands like:

[youtube]https://youtu.be/LqBWUmoOfB4[/youtube] 
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You know damn well I'm gonna have her do some arcstrider bullshit. I was thinking of hydromancy but electromancy sounds cooler now lmao