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Thaumaturgy 101 - Thursday - First Period - 1/08
She was more than glad to see, as her students streamed in, more than a couple familiar faces and quite a few new ones. After the heavy lecture of the last class, she was rather excited for this one. Oh the plans that she had...
"Well," she said as she stepped away from her desk, her blue corduroy walking dress swishing ever so faintly in the morning sun, "you've come to this class, I should like to hope, to learn the very basics of thaumaturgy. Were you to be interested in pistolry, this would be comparable to learning to build the contraption. Should you have been interested in dance, this is where you would learn the steps.
"Thaumaturgy is a complex art, to be sure, with many schools and branches and ideologies mixed into it but there is, at it's heart, a logic and a methodology, else it should be very hard to teach, don't you think?"
She didn't wait for an answer, but went on.
"I myself hold a doctorate in the subject, but my area of expertise is in forensic sorcery. My schooling was done with many of the Teutonic masters and so I admit that there might be something of a slant; I shall do my best to correct this should it become anything like a problem. For today, however, we shall of course be doing introductions and I will be handing out the syllabus and a small survey."
[ocd is a go!]
"Well," she said as she stepped away from her desk, her blue corduroy walking dress swishing ever so faintly in the morning sun, "you've come to this class, I should like to hope, to learn the very basics of thaumaturgy. Were you to be interested in pistolry, this would be comparable to learning to build the contraption. Should you have been interested in dance, this is where you would learn the steps.
"Thaumaturgy is a complex art, to be sure, with many schools and branches and ideologies mixed into it but there is, at it's heart, a logic and a methodology, else it should be very hard to teach, don't you think?"
She didn't wait for an answer, but went on.
"I myself hold a doctorate in the subject, but my area of expertise is in forensic sorcery. My schooling was done with many of the Teutonic masters and so I admit that there might be something of a slant; I shall do my best to correct this should it become anything like a problem. For today, however, we shall of course be doing introductions and I will be handing out the syllabus and a small survey."
[ocd is a go!]
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"It is indeed, Miss Nitt. And a very inclusive one. It includes those disciplines which might not be considered as it takes no action on the natural or supernatural world."
She bowed her head.
"A pleasure to have you with us."
Re: Introductions
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"Which is why they're included. But the act of seeing something itself would be thaumaturgical whereas it would not directly impact anything and not be 'magical', the way things are categorized where I am. Magic is the direct impact of nonscientific forces upon the natural and supernatural world.
"Thaumaturgy includes any discipline which utilizes any nonscientific processes."
She straightened her shoulder absently.
"A change on the heart and the mind is still a change, and it is certainly more important than a physical effect, but to see something that changes the heart or the mind can happen without the aid of magic in the least. Can you see the difference?"
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"And it's a part of thaumaturgy, but you're right. It's not magic."