It had been a few weeks almost a month after I came to this world. I have been trying hard to learn this language and I think I’ve gotten most of the basics down. I've come to realize that is solely because of my wisdom. I have decided to not really show that I’m able to understand them to a point just so They don’t freak out at a 1-month-old child being able to speak and understand exactly what they are saying. Making baby noises and listening carefully to what they say stuff that might help me.
For the past few days I’ve been the talk of center Arcis. which is the name of the amalgamation of slightly tribal cities here, I live in the centermost one. I survived a ‘magical alteration to my body’ I know that but what is even more weird is that being attuned to the arcane is extremely rare. Apparently the rarest and because of that I haven’t seen another Viscyrlan attuned to it. My momma carries me around all the time for me to understand their culture more, well she doesn’t do that for me It’s just a side effect of it all.
Today is my one month celebration. We are going to be meeting up with family from all around. It is apparently one of the cultural things that we do and I think I like it. They seem to praise newborn children and find it worthy of many celebrations. In fact I haven’t seen too many children around.
Right now it’s morning so we are going to a bathhouse, the city reminds me a little of Native American style but as if it was heavily mixed with Japanese or Asian creations. I’ve been remembering a lot from my past life, most of it just being base concepts and nothing about my personal life but I knew it would come to bite me in the butt. Every time I think back to my past life all I feel is sorrow. So I try to put it behind me.
Today we are accompanied by my mother’s spouse, her name is Airryl, the thing I noticed quite early on from going to public bathhouses, was that this is a race that isn’t a mixture of 2 sexual reproducing genders, it was a 1 sexually reproducing gender, it was confusing at first but then I remember in my past life some gods and deities were like this and their gender was known as intersex or hermaphrodites I actually don't know which one it was but that also meant this spouse was also my… parent, well I know which one birthed me which is my mom, her name is Ciryth so that would make my other parent…my father? It was so confusing so I just decided to call them both ‘parents’ but the other had more masculine features which just made me more confused.
As we were in the baths and my mother was excitedly talking about my 1 month to my dad I looked at her, she had always reminded me of a praying mantis but all black instead of green from what I remember of them. Her tail was a little like mine but except that hers didn’t have a sharper tip it has 2 outer pieces of harder skin that looked like it allowed for better aerodynamics when flying but he didn’t have wings, my mom did but it’s prohibited to fly in town without being a part of the local military. The military here isn’t really a military but a police force or law enforcers, they were apparent, very high level most of them being in the 300s in level.
Wait… I still haven’t used Identify at all, except for on my hex friend. He was almost always with me and it seemed that my parents never knew of him as if he selectively chose to stay secret to them, right now he was floating around us not bored at all, he usually found most things interesting… peculiar, but I never questioned it. I decided to identify my parents to see what it said.
[Viscyrlan(adult)]: ??
[Viscyrlan(adult)]: ??
‘Ting’ [identify] has leveled up from use and identifying high level targets: lvl 1 to 2
At that moment they both looked at me, flabbergasted. I tried so hard not to cringe at my own mistake, I forgot that it sent a wave of your unique mana to ‘analyze’ the target, that was part of the description of the skill when I glossed over it this past month.
They looked at each other with giant smiles and I acted shocked at what information just come to my brain. Some of my parents acquaintances came up to see what the ruckus was. Everyone was excited, it was hard to understand a lot of voices at once because I was only just beginning to understand the language.
“This usually takes until 1 year old,” my mom said to my dad holding all 3 of us in a tight hug, others blurted out stuff like it ‘wasn’t heard of’ or that I’m going to be the ‘smartest of them all’.
“The doc was right Ciryth, she has an extremely high wisdom for her level and age, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was over 40 maybe even higher than 50 right now, she’s going to learn so fast…” there was a pause while they looked at me and seemed to have light bulbs in their heads they looked at each other.
“She could go to Mrs. Grinolds!” They both excitedly exclaimed, I had no idea what that meant but they got all giddy with each other, part of me was apprehensive yet again because I made a mistake that put a lot of pressure on me.
My mind blurred for a second and visions of my previous life played, anxiety and a larger apprehension took hold of my heart. I calmed myself down while I was buried in my mother’s chest, she always calmed me down, even though my conscience is mature it doesn’t stop the primal infant within me from crying at times, even when I haven’t eaten in a while my body wills me to wail but right now I felt genuinely sad and she still made me feel safe. I was glad for my parents.
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After baths mother fed me and we were off to the family celebration, apparently, there were going to be another 2 children there around my age and a child that was around 1 year old, my mother said “it couldn’t be more perfect-a time,” over time I realized she had what was an accent, it wasn’t heavy but I noticed it. We apparently had to travel quite far. It took about 2 hours to walk which Was weird because neither of my parents looked exhausted. If anything they excitedly talked about my use of a skill.
I was bored all the time so I decided to see how my parents would react if I were to mess with them a bit. I was bored and felt like being playful, maybe it was my infant body wanting activities but I did it anyway.
“I think we should start training her ear-,” my mother stopped mid sentence as I stuck my tail on her cheek. My parents both looked down at me with a confused look. I tried to look as innocent as ever and not understanding as I kept poking my mom's face with my tail, It extended surprisingly far. Her skin was dense but I kept poking her for no reason. Then I initiated an irresistible baby giggle when it looked like my mom was getting annoyed when she kept trying to talk to dad.
“Awwwe my Acarils that’s too cute, but you better stop it missy,” my mother and dad saying the first part in unison. After that I giggled harder and they joined in, I retracted my tail and hugged it around my body because it was starting to get a little colder, my tail was again full of arcane and was warm, all the excess arcane was currently flowing through me.
My body was now covered with light grayish purple lines that looked to have a meaning on my body, they looked straight out of a fantasy book they were runic in nature which I learned about it in random conversations from my mom, they are the language of mana itself and very hard to understand but they are strong, it can be used as enchantments for objects, or as a way of casting magic itself, but the latter is rather difficult and only one person of my community knows how… and that is Mrs. Grinolds.
The aura I now had was from the new ‘attuned’ skills I had gotten which I was yet to utilize, but that was because my mom never left me alone anymore, I’ve tried but every time I even start to use arcane my mom stops it. I was starting to understand my status a lot more now that I got more skills.
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Status: Amarydith [Primordial Soul]
[Attuned]: Arcane(Magictouched)
Race: Viscyrlan
Race Features:
[Mana Diversity]:
[Carapace Armor]:
[Mana Poisoning Resistance]:
[Hexxan Sight]:
[(Apex)Monster Borne]:
[(unique)Viscyrlan Made]:
[(Apex)Viscyrlan Tail]:
[(unique)Inquisitive Eye]:
[(unique)Viscyrlan survival]:
[(unique)Viscyrlan Inspiration]:
Subspecies: infant Viscyrlan lvl 0
(Attuned) skill [Passive Arcane Flow] lvl 1
(Attuned) skill [Arcane Enhancement] lvl 2
General Skills:
[inspect] lvl 1
[Peer Space] lvl 1
Class: None
Mana: 1300/1300 (2093 m/h)
Vitality: 100/100
Strength: 12 (-4)
Dexterity: 16 (-2)
Endurance: 15 (+2)
Wisdom: 20 (+34) (+12)
intelligence: 28 (+10) (+8)
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It seemed that the ‘Attuned’ skills were part of my subspecies, which makes a little bit of sense because my attunement to a type of magic has been there since birth as well as it being a part of me.
***
We arrived at the celebration and it seemed that it had already started. We entered and everyone got excited to see me and my parents, I pushed myself into my mother’s bussom trying to hide from all the attention but that only gathered more attention, so decided to just sit and observe all of the people around me, it’s not like they could do anything, it was just my mind playing with me, instead, I laughed at the babyfaces and noises they made to get my attention yes foolish adults, I am actually smart and you are just making a fool of yourself, it was funny seeing all of their stupidly made faces even my mom tried to get away from them, she knew I was shy but eventually gave in, we went around and my mother as given a celebration gift for my birth. It was from a tailor, and she was my moms, sister making her my auntie, it was a little wearable carrier for me and usually, the gifts are given to the parents and child during midnight when everyone has said greeted each other, but my aunt thought my mother needed it since she was carrying me all around. When she put it on she instantly put me in it, it restricted my movement a little but it wasn’t like I needed much.
But what I was mad about was the fact that my tail was now smooshed against my back, my mother saw me squirming to get comfortable and opened a back compartment of it and fed my tail through, oh this is so much better I thought to myself as we went on to have more social conflicts. My dad was off talking to his side of the family while me and mom were meeting everyone on my mother’s side. There were aunts and uncles and a lot of grandparents/great uncles and aunts there were few children but most of them were past the age of 5 or even in their teens, eventually when we got all settled the ceremony began, there were 2 infants around my age with there parents and a child that was around a year old, she was still crawling around and needed help from her mothers to walk around, they seemed to be training her to walk.
My parents introduced me while I identified the other children
[Viscyrlan(infant)] lvl 0
[Viscyrlan(infant)] lvl 0
[Viscyrlan(child)] lvl 4
The child looked at one of her parents and whispered in her ear while introductions were going on, I was up first. My parents turned me towards the crowd of about 200 people and introduced me and talked about me.
“This new addition to our lovely family is Amarydith, most of you have been wondering why she has magic markings all over her body and that is because she had a magic phenomenon happen to her not even a day after she was born,” my mother let that sink in but what she said next shocked them even more. “Amarydith has an attument to the arcane… she also has an overflowing output of mana which is what we think caused the magic phenomenon.” There was some gasps and murmmering in the crowd of people, almost all of them had shocked face.
“Acarils was the only one to ever be attuned to arcane,” someone blurted out. I heard my parents say that name a few times, it was basically the Viscyrlan’s deity or almighty progenitor of the race.
There was a long silence and my dad spoke up “With her wisdom, we think she could start training early and even eventually ask old Grinolds if she can be her apprentice,”
“That old hag isn’t gonna take a child in, she the only remaining elder of East Arcis that lives to tell tales of old and she doesn’t even do that, she’s abandoned our practices and she’ll never take the child in you know that,” aunty Gurryl had said to my dad with a sympathetic tone.
My father got a bit defensive “we want to do it even if it means getting shunned, she’s the only one in all of Arcis that understands the magic language even if it’s a little bit, I know we all think lowly of her but she was once a high elder of our family, and she is knowledgeable, it can be a great boon to our little Amy,” my father had stated his point and let the others digest it.
“If that is what you 2 wish of your child then so be it, but we will not help you with that excursion, it is for only you to attempt and you know how she can be,” an old voice peered into the room overtaking everyone else’s quieting everyone in an instant. I looked at the origin of the noise and saw an older Viscyrlan step forward the crowd of people parting to let her through.
She didn’t look too much older and she looked a lot like my dad, she had 2 beautiful wings that were insect-like and they were close to her body but when she go to the front of the crowd they had given her room and she fluttered her wings and a gust conjured by her unique mana washed over every one of us. Her carapace was pink in color and purple where her skin hardened. She had few wrinkles but it was notable because I had not yet seen an older Viscyrlan. So of course I identified her.
[High Viscyrlan(Elder)] lvl ???
“Oh ho ho, she is very intelligent as you say, the little one has ‘identified’ me,” she spoke in a proud authoritative tone. “she used a skill at not even a year old, and I’m sure this not the first time, she has the aura arcane encompassing her body and I can just feel the energy the resonates within her, she is truly a wonder, maybe even a descendant of Acarils herself that has reactivated genes,” she got closer to inspect me she didn’t use a skill or at least I didn’t notice use of a skill.
Now that she was closer to me, her eyes looked primal and there were 2 small spikes coming from her cheek as if she had evolved into a more true being. A new type of mana I have yet to experience shrouded her being, I didn’t know why I could see it, maybe it was because it was so dense. Her face was about 3 feet from mine as I stared at the flowing wind like mana arounder her. She giggled to herself as I caught myself being entranced by her aura.
“She has a large amount of wisdom, my ‘identify’ tells me so, maybe even in the sixties, that is more than 3 times the normal amount of an infant, they start with high wisdom to learn but it seems she has already grasped even our language, though that is only speculation,” she was eyeing me with a smug grin as if she was plotting the destruction of the entire world, I put my tail in front of me instinctively and pointed the tip of it at her as the Racial skill [Attuned Disperse] manifested I dare not let it go, I knew that it was full of arcane energy.
The mana that I knew was wind in nature sprayed to life at the tip of her tail as she pointed it at me as well, it triumphed my display of magic, it thrummed with magical power but I did not stop I felt the entirety of the battery in my tail fill the end of it as it began to vibrate, I held it there staring the woman down with my extremely heightened control. She widened her eyes, I still had more mana but I felt this was the limit of what I could hold.
She looked at me with a death stare as the magic enhanced to a level that I could no longer comprehend as wind started to brush against an invisible force in front of me, at first I couldn’t see it but as I looked closer it was my Hex friend as he was blocking the wind from getting to me, he studied the elder then giggled looking back at me.