[ WP ] Most wizards study ancient texts and forgotten grimoires . This one studies physics .

“ Ingenuity draws its roots deep in the loam of understanding, my new apprentice, ” the wizard Khadaras began, one eye studying his first and only student, her plump body planted on a lone stump in a withered hollow, Khadaras ’ s home. “ And my kin, in their abject conceit, have misunderstood this simple truth. They seek the knowledge of history, the works and writings of their great forebearers. And how they suffer from such ignorance. ” 
 
 “ Surely, Master Khadaras, history can lend to understanding and thus offer a fertile soil for one ’ s ingenuity to develop. Is this not so? ” the student muttered. 
 
 “ It is. And in this discovery you have already proven some promise as a student, Enolin. You see, the others like us – magic coursing through veins – waste all time in the musings of history and so entrap themselves in in the prison of antiquity. For history ’ s use, though providing a contextual foundation for understanding, exhausts itself to the active mind quickly. To best use that foundation, one must seek new avenues of thought, as I have done. As you will do. ” 
 
 He stood, and grabbed a glass orb from a nearby shelf and set it before the waning light of his hearth. “ Consider the shadow, Enolin, projected on this opposite wall. Can you see a sphere of glass? Nay, it is but an image of the truth, guarded and silent, bearing the secrets of its origin. And yet from this image, that origin can be deduced. Watch the flickering light bend around and through. Observe the patterns, the faded gradient projecting from the image ’ s center. From this we can deduce that the origin of this image is all but opaque, that its shape is sphere, not some circular prism twisted before the light in deceit. Can you not see it? ” He looked to his student. 
 
 “ I can, I suppose. I just don ’ t see the relevance. ” 
 
 “ The relevance is this: in the same way this shadow exists as an image of our orb, so too the orb exists as an image of something else, beyond your mind ’ s comprehension, beyond your eye ’ s sight. And this reveals a truth wrought in our magic itself. Many believe sorcery to be aspected in the elements of our universe. But in truth, it is all one and the same, no partitions, no differences. Magic is but a tool to direct a source of light through a higher… *dimensionality*, allowing us to warp the image of our target – fire, air, energy itself – to do our bidding. ” He paused to study his student, hoping to find evidence of understanding. She looked eager. After a moment, he continued, “ And this is your first lesson. Today we will examine lights from our perspective and the images on these walls. Tomorrow, we being with the lights of dimensionality, and the image of fire. ” 

