[Dragon]

"Good enough." The master smiled. Now the answer really did seem full and true and he was completely happy with it. Now. Now that he accepted her, he had to begin teaching her. And so the first thing for any person who wanted to study arcana was being Unbound. A wonderful thing indeed. "In order to manipulate, to even see the magic world of arcana a person has to be Unbound. You probably heard that mages meditate to cast spells. However no matter how much a simply person meditates he would never reach Clara, see magic or be able to cast spells. That is because his mind is locked for the arcana world. Everyone's mind is. Well... perhaps except for dragons, ancient allerians and... well I don't know those. Fortunately for us mortals, be it humans, elves or orcs, we can break that barrier and manipulate arcana just like the ancient ones."

"Being Unbound is a wonderful feeling. However I must warn you that not everyone can be Unbound. Usually people who are still children, 4 or 8 patterns old can be Unbound, but older people are much harder to be taught in this. Most can't even be unbound and it won't matter how good the master is. Some others... get side effects. There even have been deaths. So this process really isn't for just anyone. However as each and every of my student said, it is worth it, worth the whole world. But I must ask you, just like I asked them, are you sure you are ready? If so. Then I shall try to Unbind you."

The master sat there. Calm and relaxed waiting for Rialyn's response. He knew her answer though. Those who were destined for arcana chose it at whatever cost and never let go of it from there. Those who weren't simply didn't try and start with it. That was why there was a single mage in one thousand or so people. From that only one fourth were adepts. While masters were a complete rarity. A single master in a whole city was the usual case. Such was the world of Telath. So far no one complained too loudly to the gods about it either. So far.