[Video | Seelie Locked] 08 Shadows

[fell_to_hell]

[This is a teenager who looks tired, but isn't letting that stop him from doing whatever it is he wants or needs to do. His dark eyes are alert, though they also look faraway.]

This probably won't be of any use in the battle coming up with how late in the game I'm offering, but I think that it's still something that's worth learning.

[He makes absolutely no sense right now and he gets that.]

One of the powers I was born with is something my world calls 'shadow travel.' By using shadows like paths to walk through, I can appear in another place. I can even take other people or objects with me. It works best at night, but there's no real problem with using it during the daytime. There's a price, though. It can take a lot of energy at first, and the amount of energy is totally dependent on the distance you're traveling and how many people are traveling with you.

[Nico looks grim, as that's not the only warning he needs to give on this particular ability.]

For any interested, I have to give you a warning on being very careful to not abuse shadow traveling. When I abused it, I almost ceased to be part of the mortal world. I almost joined the ghosts in the Underworld, the Land of the Dead. Whether that same thing can happen here, I don't know and I don't particularly want to know.

If you're still interested after all of that or you have questions about it in general, then feel free to contact me. I plan on holding these lessons at the White Citadel, but I can also hold them at Caer Glaem's training grounds.

[Since either of those locations will be close to healers.]

Comments

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[brainiest]

Do you think you'd like to teach your sister a little magic, Nico?

[ Are you happy to see her smiling, baby brother? ]

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[dicktionary]

That sounds really cool, actually. Are you gonna charge to teach it?

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[midnighthero]

I used to do the same thing back in my world. It wasn't a great idea to abuse that, either.

[ Though the Corridors of Darkness were a little bit different. ]

Since I can't use the Keyblade to move between places any more, it might be worth learning that again.

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[nibelheims]

[ shadow traveling? there's something he hasn't heard of before, but as far as an ability goes, it sounds useful. and cloud, with his limited skills now thanks to whatever the faeries have done to him, could use a few new tricks. ]

Do a lot of people from your world have that skill?

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[reticence]

[Faolan has never held too much in the idea of learning magic in the Drabwurld -- for one thing he has always been too busy, and for the other thing, there will always be another mage more powerful than him as far he's concerned. The idea of shadow travel intrigues him, however. Enough to bring him forward to ask:]

This travel that you speak of. How does it work, if I may ask? How... [Hmm, how to put this.] How subtle can this be?

[truesight]

I know this goes without saying, but- I'm saying it.

Be careful. Please. [ the heaviest! weight! to that sentence! because she knows what shadow travel can do to a person, remembers seeing visions of demigods from the past, the ancient past, before the big three were ( technically ) not supposed to have kids anymore. the way they would drift into shadow and never turn back.

she also remembers a very sleepy Nico, too ]

Teaching it isn't the same as abusing it, but it could be just as taxing.

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[thetruestbeliever]

[ That sounds almost like the dark magic his grandfather or mother might have used once. Although he knows magic works differently here and it sounds like shadow travel can help people. Of course, as dangerous as it sounds, it also seems pretty cool to him. But it makes sense that magic that strong has severe consequences. ]

Was it...freaky the first time you did it?

[ He hesitates in saying 'scary' but it sounds like it could be just...a little unsettling at first given what it does and how much it drains someone. ]