Karina: "When I was looking through your mind, I checked your, subconscious, as well - old fragments of memories you can't recall anymore, unintentionally developed behaviors. Practiced and instinctual skills.

There's a, fairly rare trick you have up your sleeve and you're not even aware of it.

Have you ever heard of Conquest?"


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You move to maintain the current distance between you and... It.

Launching another Lance, you aim for what you believe is the "parasite" spirit, resulting in another scream and the creature stumbling and then falling over, writhing on the ground.

Faren-Wuust: Should be disabled, for now.

Karina: "Conquest was created by Suzanna Daeli. It's based on the ability that nearly all Daeli have innately, one that Daelita created herself.

Instantly casting out thousands of telepathic tendrils, each capable of carrying a pre-programmed spell and activating it only under the mage's specified conditions, and efficiently and safely drawing the required mana.

You're not a mainline Daeli, but you have the original ability."


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You get closer, but keep a safe distance, enough to react if you need to. Looking at the spirit attachment more closely, you can feel one in the chirop's head, and one that seems to be in the center of her torso.

Karina: "Drawing mana? It's pretty straight forward. You give it a spell, the conditions to trigger the spell, and how much mana to use when it activates the spell, and it pulls mana only when necessary.

In a nutshell, it's a large-scale cast. How you actually use it, well, you can figure that out on your own."

Karina: "How much do I know? I have it! Makes precisely reconstructing organic matter a breeze.

As for how you actually use yours, uh. It's like learning magic for the first time, you just, have to feel it there, and fiddle with it. Like an invisible limb you never knew you had, and you start flailing it around wildly until it becomes coordinated enough to be useful."

You give her head a 'light' bash with your warhammer, but she's still weakly thrashing around on the ground.

Might take a little more oomph to knock her out.


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Karina: "It can use your Arcane, though that ends up getting spread pretty thin. The artificial spirits are part of it, not created by Suzanna.

It's passed down like any other magic, on the mother's side, so there are Daeli that were unable to inherit the ability.


As for its name... Daelita called it Captivate. A massive scale telepathic technique bent the will of cities to her favor.

Some say she was the true reason why the Second was formed, but that's ancient history."