( Jingyi sighs, but it's the sigh of someone trying to figure out how to frame things instead of an exasperated or tired one. A whole language of Jingyi sighs, please no one bother learning them. )
Magic means something different to you, I think? None of it's magic to us, it's use of natural world rules and processes and spiritual energies. Talismans are more, ah... stupidly seen as lesser than other forms of cultivation? 'Cause it makes those processes held and usable by more than cultivators, in some cases.
Soooo no, we don't put magic in them exactly, but we do give them instructions of something to do. Fire's a useful one, yeah? You can say what kind of heat, the kind of intensity of fire, the length of it lasting. You can store energy in one, or you can have it pull on the world energies around it. They're passive until activated in most cases, or they're like the spirit attracting or spirit repelling ones, working as long as you're not binding them to not. Talismans are really just the paper ones, most the time, the ones that you use once. You can have protective talismans carved in jade or other stones, or wards carved into wood or stone for an area, or...
( He pauses, rubbing his forehead. )
Okay, sure, basically we can. The clans with their noses stuck too far up their own self importance think it's too tricky to be honest, but they're useful, not everything's a direct fight blade to blade, you know?
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Magic means something different to you, I think? None of it's magic to us, it's use of natural world rules and processes and spiritual energies. Talismans are more, ah... stupidly seen as lesser than other forms of cultivation? 'Cause it makes those processes held and usable by more than cultivators, in some cases.
Soooo no, we don't put magic in them exactly, but we do give them instructions of something to do. Fire's a useful one, yeah? You can say what kind of heat, the kind of intensity of fire, the length of it lasting. You can store energy in one, or you can have it pull on the world energies around it. They're passive until activated in most cases, or they're like the spirit attracting or spirit repelling ones, working as long as you're not binding them to not. Talismans are really just the paper ones, most the time, the ones that you use once. You can have protective talismans carved in jade or other stones, or wards carved into wood or stone for an area, or...
( He pauses, rubbing his forehead. )
Okay, sure, basically we can. The clans with their noses stuck too far up their own self importance think it's too tricky to be honest, but they're useful, not everything's a direct fight blade to blade, you know?