Book One – Chapter 6

Conversely, when launching shard projectiles towards distant enemies, a novice’s natural inclination was to craft lighter shards in order to gain speed and range. Yes, the slim and transparent shards that you crafted for such purpose were less dense and, respectively, likely to travel faster and farther. However, if you simply used less energy in both dimensions to conjure them, they also became utterly weak and difficult to control. But of course, you accepted this as the natural limitations of your craft, because your masters said it would be so, and because every other glass wizard in your grade had the same experiences as you. And because it made sense. With a mind restricted to one dimension, you would never imagine that the knife you threw at your enemy could or should be as heavy as the massive shield you used to protect your body. However, if you understood how to adjust the ratio of transgressing energy, you could create impeccably dense shards that were close to all energy and no matter.

When such a projectile struck another wizard, it penetrated both his material body and his Rothar. You still saw the body suffer or die, but rarely because of a direct impact on the physical form. Rather, it succumbed due to the disruption or destruction of the Rothar tethered to it. Mind you, this secret was well wasted on your petty wizard duels. This world harboured entities who seemed untouchable, immortal even, unless you knew that they, too, bore a dual existence. There were rumours that the purest of energy shards might even inflict harm upon an elf —

To sum this up, everything had changes when Yves found out that glass magic implied he was, in fact, acting on two dimensional planes. It marked an unparalleled breakthrough in understanding the possibilities of his disposition, in transgressing common limitations. The moment he truly internalised that his shards did not need to be less dense but only less bound to the physical dimension was the moment he discovered the potential for extraordinary conjurations, from blade discs that decapitated sea beasts to enormous structures such as the dome. Yves had taught himself to create shard structures immeasurable in their density yet almost completely anchored in the dimension of energies — shards infused with light fragments.