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Had. Three total in my lifetime that I call successful, the rest dropped out as they saw me to be too difficult. It was more that they could not perceive further ahead of them. Stuck in their restrictive ways from home and how they perceive magic to be.
*runes reveal themselves and glow on the metal of the staff and the grain of the wood begins to glow*

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You know what they say about spellcasters thinking in lists. Nobody great ever approached magic like that without some kind of endless mana supply to help them.