Copy magic allows a practitioner to reproduce another mage's spells or magic. Barachiel used it during the Malverand Empire, and Aurelia used it to acquire magic from other mages and carry a powerful spell taken from Abraxas.
Practice and limits
Aurelia copied Viviana's plasma and Gren's air magic through touch. When she copied Viviana, Viviana temporarily struggled to cast her own plasma. Aurelia also copied temporal magic to escape into Varnhallow.
Holding Abraxas's spell inside her body was dangerous. She continually healed herself with divine magic and drained Essence to keep from falling apart. She sought a child strong enough to inherit the power rather than release it; the copied magic passed into her daughter after birth.
Use
Barachiel's copying helped create the first Malverand cores. Aurelia came from Myrravel, where she said a few others shared her ability.
Copy magic allows a practitioner to reproduce another mage's spells or magic. Barachiel used it during the Malverand Empire, and Aurelia used it to acquire magic from other mages and carry a powerful spell taken from Abraxas.
Practice and limits
Barachiel could learn spells almost instantly. Aurelia developed her copying through training, including personal instruction from Abraxas among the Oracles of Eternity. Touch let her perceive more refined spells, though her early copies were often much weaker than the originals. She learned to keep copied temporal magic for months.
She copied Viviana's plasma and Gren's air magic through touch. Viviana briefly struggled to cast her own plasma afterward. Aurelia also copied an Oracle's temporal magic to flee into Varnhallow.
Copying a spell did not give Aurelia an understanding of its use. She traced the complex structure of Essence reversal on the cave murals in Zarephon and drew it into herself without knowing its function. Holding it threatened to destroy her body, forcing her to heal herself with divine magic and continually drain Essence. Combining her ordinary magic with origin magic also caused pain as the two opposed one another. She sought a child strong enough to inherit the power; her daughter Helena inherited the copied spell.
Aurelia traced her awakening to water she had drunk at the source. Abraxas taught her to focus on copying rather than learning ordinary magic, which he forbade Oracles with origin magic to practice.
Malverand development
Barachiel's copying helped create the first Malverand cores. Arcanis used Barachiel's copying ability in research to contain many spells or raw Essence within devices, drawing on the empire's strong mages. The project sought new forms of magic by combining their spells and Essence. Aurelia later came from Myrravel, where she said a few others shared her copying ability.
Copy magic allows a practitioner to reproduce another mage's spells or magic. Barachiel used it during the Malverand Empire, and Aurelia used it to acquire magic from other mages and carry a powerful spell taken from Abraxas.
Practice and limits
Barachiel could learn spells almost instantly. Aurelia developed her copying through training, including personal instruction from Abraxas among the Oracles of Eternity. Touch let her perceive more refined spells, though her early copies were often much weaker than the originals. She learned to keep copied temporal magic for months.
She copied Viviana's plasma and Gren's air magic through touch. Viviana briefly struggled to cast her own plasma afterward. Aurelia also copied an Oracle's temporal magic to flee into Varnhallow.
Copying a spell did not give Aurelia an understanding of its use. She traced the complex structure of Essence reversal on the cave murals in Zarephon and drew it into herself without knowing its function. Holding it threatened to destroy her body, forcing her to heal herself with divine magic and continually drain Essence. Combining her ordinary magic with origin magic also caused pain as the two opposed one another. She sought a child strong enough to inherit the power; her daughter Helena inherited the copied spell.
Aurelia traced her awakening to water she had drunk at the source. Abraxas taught her to focus on copying rather than learning ordinary magic, which he forbade Oracles with origin magic to practice.
Origins
Lothar, the first elementalist, could see the patterns and instructions of Essence. Looking at a mage's spell let him immediately reproduce the way it was shaped. He granted Barachiel the gift of learning spells almost instantly, after which Lothar could no longer copy another mage merely by observing them. He separately gave Arcanis the ability to see the world's patterns and instructions.
Malverand development
Barachiel's copying helped create the first Malverand cores. Arcanis used Barachiel's copying ability in research to contain many spells or raw Essence within devices, drawing on the empire's strong mages. The project sought new forms of magic by combining their spells and Essence. Aurelia later came from Myrravel, where she said a few others shared her copying ability.
Technological replication
The Malverand Intergalactic Empire developed nanotechnology that copied and altered ancient magic. Its cell-repair technology was based on divine healing. Reflective nanites were connected with the altered reversal spell carried by Thalena, and the origin magic encountered in Valrindor was traced to nanite-based technology from the other world. Its effects had grown far beyond the designers' original limits.