Carter nodded along. He knew the bare bones basics for this bit. Hit all five senses to bind it to an object, except that even k ow he knew the rhetoric he never really understood it. Why sound and taste to latch a spell onto a lump of metal? Hell why any of them at all. Why did some people use all the senses and others leave some out? Carter knew risk of failure rose if you didn't use enough but how did you figure it out?
In the end he just didn't have the knack for composing rituals and even when doing them by rote from a book barely got a fizzle of power. How his family ever landed on the marriage ritual for ghosts he'll never know but they seemed able to keep that one working consistently.
“Well ain't that nifty. I used to know a fella south o' the border who swore that if you couldn't get an ingredient replacing it with jaguar blood worked just as good. Dunno if he was right but he was mighty strong when he was alive.” Carter rambled.
What had happened to Javier? Oh right, eaten by jaguars.
In the end he just didn't have the knack for composing rituals and even when doing them by rote from a book barely got a fizzle of power. How his family ever landed on the marriage ritual for ghosts he'll never know but they seemed able to keep that one working consistently.
“Well ain't that nifty. I used to know a fella south o' the border who swore that if you couldn't get an ingredient replacing it with jaguar blood worked just as good. Dunno if he was right but he was mighty strong when he was alive.” Carter rambled.
What had happened to Javier? Oh right, eaten by jaguars.