Auristics
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| "The arrogance of the soul is to believe it can dominate the body. The arrogance of the body is to believe it can contain the soul." - From the Trevor Codex |
| Personal magic | |
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| Full name | Auristics |
|---|---|
| Availability | Throughout Mizahar |
| Learned from | Users, books |
| Key concept | Reading and manipulating auras |
| Uses | Detection, intelligence, deceit |
| Risks | Sensory overload, paranoia |
Auristics is a discipline of personal magic that allows the wizard to read - and, at higher levels, interact with - auras. Everything that exists possesses an aura, but sentient creatures have the largest and most complex of all. An aura contains precious information for the Aurist to read; for example, he may be able to establish whether an object is cold or hot without having to touch it. Auristics can be used to find out if someone recently entered a room, or if someone is wounded underneath their clothing. More advanced Aurists can capture the subtle nuances in people's auras, figuring out emotions, worries, expectations. Aurists are also the best at detecting other forms of magic through the auras left by Djed usage.
Overview
The hypothesis that Auristics was a gift of Avalis, goddess of visions, has largely fallen out of credit in most educated circles. For one, it is not divination into the future, and secondly, it is unlikely that the goddess would have granted a way for mortals to freely see into things; Avalis makes sure that only those strong enough to bear the gift of vision can do so. Scholars tend to propose the idea that Auristics was one of those later disciplines that mortals figured out on their own, and at their own risk.
Just like fire creates smoke, everything creates an aura around itself. Regular items usually have a thin aura that extends around one inch around their outermost boundaries. Magical items have variable auras whose size depends on their power. Unintelligent animals have a few inches' worth of aura, whereas a Human or another sentient creature possesses auras that reach several feet around them. Gods have incredible auras that span dozens of meters, though they can suppress them at will as even a normal person would be able to perceive such energy.
Aurists can sense auras, and by looking at the smoke they can infer certain things about the fire. By far the vast majority of Aurists works primarily with their eyesight, but all five senses can perceive an aura if the user has been properly trained.