[h2]Lilia[/h2]

"Um, Lilia, daughter of Lilette..." the girl answered, mumbling and motioning for Nicomede to go along with the question. When he got to his sword, she drew hers obligingly, laying the long blade out where everyone can see it.

"Oooooh, the sword? It's not an enchanted weapon, not really," she explained brightly, pointing at a cluster of runes along its length that looked... well, like just about every other piece of runework on the lengthy weapon, "It doesn't have a single effect on it aside from this strengthening, and you'll find that on almost [i]anything[/i] that needs to regularly be exposed to magic in an active or passive form, just so it doesn't get warped or destroyed by the mana going through it."

One tanned finger pointed at... another seemingly innocuous piece of detailing, as long as one of the gems in its hilt. A pale blue one that was both nicely faceted, yet seemingly irregularly cut. "[i]These[/i] parts are to help the sword work as a catalyst and vector for touch-carried effects. Without them, the spell would need to be at least twice as long [i]just[/i] to let you use the blade as an extension of yourself, and then even more if you wanted to properly modulate the amount of mana it consumes and not just overcharge it. So, that let me use the sword to release a spell when I deflected, and then..."

There was another burst of singing, the indicated gem growing brightly before she whipped the blade into the ground. It made a surprisingly loud thud, the packed earth reacting more like a heavy weight had been dropped on it. "I think you were talking about that spell? It's a really versatile effect for how simple it is, since it's just a single thrust from the point of contact, undirected and going in all directions to the contacted body. Since the strength doesn't take into account the strength of the target, it's even better if deflecting a light weapon, but it's good for parrying, or destabilising someone in armour, because it's so easy to catch people off-guard with the weight of the blow... um, if that makes sense? You [i]did[/i] mean that spell?

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