Book One – Chapter 6

The Jabarrah’s unrestrained energy surged through him. From the outer rim of the shard-strewn ground, excluding the path of the advancing Vicha, Yves wove a dome. Layers of structure emerged from the edges of the shard cover, extending skyward above the Vicha, finding support in the glass pillars rooted in the crater scaffold. Channelling the Jabarrah’s vast reserves, he fortified the dome, adding stratum upon stratum of condensed light, each layer pressed to its utmost limit.

Shards embodied an extraordinary versatility, possessing a rare duality that allowed them to influence both dimensions simultaneously and in varying degrees.

As an ordinary student at Emery Thurm, left blissfully unaware of the underlying principles of reality, this duality was distorted and presented to you as the — indeed, very logical as long as you were ignorant — Theoriye of Magick Densitiye.

Consider, when defending against potent physical assaults, your instinctual response to craft denser shard walls by increasing your energy input. You engaged in your craft under the simple belief that a higher energy input equated to a stronger shard structure, when the deciding factor was, in truth, not the amount but the ratio of energy transferred to the physical dimension. For the most effective shields, you needed to transfer all your energy to the Material Dimension while retaining just enough in the Alladharian to sustain and control the shield. How could you come up with that on your own without an awareness of the duality of reality? You could not. Consequently, you lost half your energy creating a shard wall in the Alladharian Dimension, an absolute waste against any physical assault. The knowledge to consciously control the energy-matter ratio of shards made the difference between a wizard who could block a handful of beasts and one who could even halt the King Brothers’ army.