Essence of theBlue Mage

This dark spinning drop of liquid seems to form cannibalistic caricatures one moment, and pages the next. It tastes of blood and ink, and after drinking it your thirst seems to momentarily redouble.

• Upon drinking it, a small mental study will form in your mind.

• You gain a second mental thread that is fully focused inside your mind, upon your books and research. It can focus on anything that isn't within the study, and it's memory is no better than yours, but you're always fully aware of it and what it thinks/knows, can direct it, and it know where to find anything recorded within it's books.

• Whenever you experience is automatically systematically recorded in a through fashion. The weight of words will over time form a flow of mystical power.

• In addition to giving you a steady flow, each 'tome' will also act as a battery, able to hold a minute's worth of it's own generation.

• Among the tomes in your study, one will be a bestiarum vocabulum, a recording of everything you learn about beasts and monsters (or anything sufficiently adjacent to those to be included).

• Drawing upon the mystical principle that knowledge is power, the bestiarum will leverage it's influence upon you.

  • For example, every observation about cats might add to your strength, a little, and your agility a bit more, and your balance and kinesthesis even more. It would also probably make you naturally move more stealthy.

• It will also using your collected knowledge to form a set of 'pictures' of each 'beast.'

  • These pictures will display all the magics and influences of the beast that you have observed.

  • It will also included diagrams focusing upon any exceptional traits of the beast.

• Pulling upon your flow of magic, or even your reserves, you can pull these influences into reality. You can pull dragonsfire from your recording of a dragon, or lay the diagram of it's terrible claws upon your own hands to grow them.

• Over time, you can integrate aspects you draw upon regularly, perhaps permanently integrating feature you desire, or otherwise using them to modify yourself.

• You can also further master any powers you've claimed, forming books and grimories about how elements of your bestiarum vocabulum could be leveraged. While you can't do anything not recorded as part of it, with just this essence, you can use them in ways the beast couldn't.

  • For example, you could record how a circle of blood fairy blood could bind an oath, and then manifest that oath circle, even though that performance would be beyond the pixiy you recorded fae blood from.

  • The more steps you have to go through, the more sophisticated the steps, the 'harder' it is to 'record' such an application.

• For both advanced applications, integrating or recording applications, your 'extra' mind can do it on it's own, or you can help. You might also be able to find things out in the world to speed your progress.