AMA (Ask Me Anything) May 1st 12:00-3:00pm MT/UTC-6

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Hi Azalea! I almost missed this because I couldn’t decide which of my many questions to ask.

I’ve ended up with a few questions, but I’m not expecting answers to all of them. They’re in rough order of priority but if you have a preference to answer just the second or third one I’ll still be happy.

In the 250 chapter discussion thread you wrote

@AzaleaEllis

@Hannah

Is there any reason why a very careful and precise thaumaturge couldn’t cast through a circle made from their mouth?

It’s possible, but only for esoteric/ritual type spells, not modern sorcery.

Personally, I would only try something like that if I had no other option. The air touching your lips would be likely to get either very cold or very hot, enough to cause damage to such delicate skin. And if you couldn’t keep your lips pursed in a good Circle the stability of the “containment” would fluctuate. If you accidentally close your mouth…you’re going to have a bad time.

But you wouldn’t be able to talk, which a lot of esoteric spells require, so the application would be very niche.

With esoteric spells, the energy transfer is kept inside the bounds of the Circle, and most are set up to remove the very excess energy they might leak into the air. With modern sorcery, energy flows through the bounding lines/the array, which in this case would be the flesh itself.

My question is: how is casting through the mouth different from casting through a finger circle? Unless I’m mistaken we’ve seen Lacer free-cast a variety of modern sorcerous spells this way. Would that not be channeling through his flesh? Or were those all esoteric spells?

A related question: why does Lacer or anyone cast with a hand circle. It seems like it would be easy to slip up and break the circle, and if the only external requirement a freecaster has is a circle, it would be easy enough to make sure they always had something available, such as metal rings sewn into clothes.

Final question: Ever since we first saw someone cast with their hands I’ve been wondering about the potential transmogrification advantages to casting with the body. For example a divination spell cast with the eye might be more effective than one carved in metal. Now I know that’s not as practical as I assumed, but is the principle sound? Can you imbue concepts into a spell based on what you use a circle? I’ll spare you the details but I’ve been spending a significant amount of time coming up with (spell) uses for every orifice, so I hope that wasn’t a waste.