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Arcanist (Kingkiller Chronicles)

Cost: 12 SP

You have the skills of an Arcanist freshly graduated from the University and know four branches of what might be called magic. You learn and improve your skills quickly.

Sympathy is a system of energy manipulation (considered a form of magic ) that requires extreme skill and concentration. Sympathy requires a user to create a sympathetic link between two objects, so that whatever is done to one object will affect the other. For example, if a sympathist creates a sympathetic link between two coins, he may move both coins equal distances by exerting force on only one.

Sygaldry involves the use and application of runes, which create effects similar to a permanent form of sympathy. There are 197 runes, and they can be used in a variety of combinations to perform a wide assortment of effects on various materials.

Naming is a discipline where one perceives the true name of a person, place or thing, and through that understanding gains absolute control over the subject. This power can be used by the Namer in a variety of ways. For example, natural forces like the wind can be called upon to do the Namer's bidding, solid rock can be commanded to crumble into dust, and living beings and people can be forced to do whatever the Namer desires.

Little is known about Alchemy currently but it may work in a similar way to fae grammarie. By taking the substance or essence of something and adding to it or putting into a mixture. Thus making the bound 'principles' referred to in the text.

Piece of a Name

To take a piece of something is to understand it, ever so slightly more. To understand something is to control it, and so the result of your ability is clear. You may expend slots of 108 Skills to learn pieces of the Name of anything within range, giving proportional control as long as it is held.

To have 1/108th of a target's Name is to have barely noticeable control, while to have the full Name would be to have full control, as expected. You may take as many pieces of a given target's Name as you would like, and you are not limited to animate beings for this function of the power.

However, as the target's power grows, they will have smaller and smaller pieces of their Name take up the same single slot. Those of extreme power may only give you the smallest fraction of control even if you dedicated all 108 slots to learning their Name, but that fraction you have is still yours to command.