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 Pell looked around the room, wondering for a moment why nobody was answering, until finally he gave up and spoke up himself. "It's the theoretical, y'know, underpinnings of magic, right? What it is, how it works, why it works that way?" Pell looked around the room, wondering for a moment why nobody was answering, until finally he gave up and spoke up himself. "It's the theoretical, y'know, underpinnings of magic, right? What it is, how it works, why it works that way?"
  
-Professor Mordgrant gave Pell a long look over her glasses. "Close enough for a first-year, I suppose. Theoretics is the study of how the world works; magic is simply a particularly effective way of interacting with the world. But the real keyword out of all that was, of course, 'theoretical'. Which is why the Dean, in his infinite wisdom, has informed me that my first lecture *must* begin with a practical demonstration." She sighed, then performed a brief set of flowing gestures, and smoke suddenly began spewing from the vessel, spilling from the holes to dissipate along the floor.+Professor Mordgrant gave Pell a long look over her glasses. "Close enough for a novice, I suppose. Theoretics is the study of how the world works; magic is simply a particularly effective way of interacting with the world. But the real keyword out of all that was, of course, 'theoretical'. Which is why the Dean, in his infinite wisdom, has informed me that my first lecture *must* begin with a practical demonstration." She sighed, then performed a brief set of flowing gestures, and smoke suddenly began spewing from the vessel, spilling from the holes to dissipate along the floor.
  
 "The world that your mundane senses show you - that's the room outside this vessel. The smoke is aether, flowing forth into it and causing changes. 'Magic' is simply the word we use to describe anything that allows us to affect that aether. In particular, casting a spell is equivalent to putting your hands in the vessel and guiding the smoke from there." "The world that your mundane senses show you - that's the room outside this vessel. The smoke is aether, flowing forth into it and causing changes. 'Magic' is simply the word we use to describe anything that allows us to affect that aether. In particular, casting a spell is equivalent to putting your hands in the vessel and guiding the smoke from there."

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