[Dorian's not exactly sure what motivated him to...well he wasn't certain what this was, perhaps this was just the student in him becoming the teacher, or perhaps the idea of someone so taken by magic was just that endearing to him. He felt an impulse clicking like the cogs in a machine and had he been five years younger he wouldn't suppress those impulses. This was a learning moment for the both of them after all.]
Oh, the magical abilities are inherent, not just anyone can pick up a staff and be a mage...the staff merely draws from you, amplifies what you have, gives it distance and precision...there's a...mathematical formula to certain magics. I have some on my arm in fact.
[Granted he's only talking now as a distraction from the proximity, but it's no lie, Dorian is just the sort of nerd that would tattoo himself with magical mathematical equations that would make very little sense to anyone but himself. To most people it was simply geometric designs, but they had meaning.]
It could be drawing that feeling from you, I'm half tempted to let you push it...except we're in a static cage and while electric fingers can be fun...standing in a ring of lightening just for curiosity's sake would be a bit dangerous. [Not that he's going to tell John to let go any time soon, that would mean letting John go, wouldn't it? Instead he nudged John's hand up a few inches until his palm was hovering over a spherical object embedded into the staff.] A rune...that's a spirit rune, it's designed to increase damage inflicted on demons and similar creatures like darkspawn.
[Dorian is curious in the way John seems to be engaging with the staff, there might be parts of the staff that call out to John the most and the spirit rune was a powerful magical element.]
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Oh, the magical abilities are inherent, not just anyone can pick up a staff and be a mage...the staff merely draws from you, amplifies what you have, gives it distance and precision...there's a...mathematical formula to certain magics. I have some on my arm in fact.
[Granted he's only talking now as a distraction from the proximity, but it's no lie, Dorian is just the sort of nerd that would tattoo himself with magical mathematical equations that would make very little sense to anyone but himself. To most people it was simply geometric designs, but they had meaning.]
It could be drawing that feeling from you, I'm half tempted to let you push it...except we're in a static cage and while electric fingers can be fun...standing in a ring of lightening just for curiosity's sake would be a bit dangerous. [Not that he's going to tell John to let go any time soon, that would mean letting John go, wouldn't it? Instead he nudged John's hand up a few inches until his palm was hovering over a spherical object embedded into the staff.] A rune...that's a spirit rune, it's designed to increase damage inflicted on demons and similar creatures like darkspawn.
[Dorian is curious in the way John seems to be engaging with the staff, there might be parts of the staff that call out to John the most and the spirit rune was a powerful magical element.]