Building off of Zeroth, would it be possible to use a staff or wand to act as a focus; a point to capture already formed arcane energy to allow the rapid movement to a more complex branch of magic, allowing the storage of portions of a spell to be delayed until the other fragments have been primed?
Also, how large a command can one have of the aetherical forces at work? You say that chanting is like a step by step instruction formula to cast a spell, a preset arrangement of magical force able to be fired simply by the chanting. Does this mean that certain words have a certain influence over certain aspects, that there is a magical 'language' that one can learn to control various aspects of aetherical flows?
I like to run a mage as something of a linguist, where the dissemination of the 'arcane language', as it were, is more about knowing the commands that influence than knowing the aetherical flows. Where knowing root words and adjectives can mean the alteration of a spell, where a well crafted spell is more of a speech than a mathematical formula. I just want to know how closely I can build my character in your canon.
Also, how large a command can one have of the aetherical forces at work? You say that chanting is like a step by step instruction formula to cast a spell, a preset arrangement of magical force able to be fired simply by the chanting. Does this mean that certain words have a certain influence over certain aspects, that there is a magical 'language' that one can learn to control various aspects of aetherical flows?
I like to run a mage as something of a linguist, where the dissemination of the 'arcane language', as it were, is more about knowing the commands that influence than knowing the aetherical flows. Where knowing root words and adjectives can mean the alteration of a spell, where a well crafted spell is more of a speech than a mathematical formula. I just want to know how closely I can build my character in your canon.