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''This post is mainly intended to set some ground-work for magic, that I can't fit into a reasonably sized main post. Because magic is Purple, I'm going to use that for the text that contains important information for casters.

Name: Banana Age: 32 Gender: Male Other: Magician, studying the four nodes.

Banana woke up, the bright sunlight illuminating his sleepy face. He grabbed his journal, and then his staff, and hauled himself out of bed.

After eating breakfast, Banana left the small house in which he stayed to go to the Life Dojo, where the island's archmage resided. Each of the four nodes had it's own affiliated archmage (and in most cases, a handful of apprentice archmages), and Banana was on fairly good terms with all of them, hence why the tribe of Plateau picked him to go research the other nodes and magics.

"Oh, hi. I didn't see you there. Still trying to find a use for that air magic of yours?" said the archmage, chuckling to himself. He was the youngest of the four archmages, at 50, having recently aqquired the title. "More uses. Anyway, I'd personally say telekinesis is a fairly useful ability." replied Banana. However, the archmage was right. Air magic was fairly useless compared to the other three, telekinesis and imbuing being the only things it was useful for on it's own. Nonetheless, it became much more useful when used with other energies, hence Banana's journey. "I'm going to continue my work on summoning animals with imbued air magic." continued Banana, heading towards the green glowing node. "Just as crazy as it sounds." the archmage chuckled to himself. "Have fun! Tell me if you make anything you need rid of." and with that he left. Banana approached the node, a hovering, green, glowing crystal, thrice as high and just as wide as a fully grown man. He held his staff high in the air, and began channelling the life energy from the node. Thanks to his staff, Banana was able to hold and control far more magic than he would be able to if he was using his hands, and he was soon able to gather enough energy to create yet another lynx. The island was completely riddled with them thanks to the simplicity of them compared to other animals, and not only were they a easy thing for the small children to learn, but the advanced mages occasionally had competitions over who could summon the most simultainiously. The record was 8, but Banana had only seen up to 5, and was highly doubting of the supposed record amount. Nonetheless, Banana only needed one, and as he had expected, the air magic from his runes simply didn't go into the lynx he was making, and it collapsed around him. Fortunately, air magic was the least dangerous of the four types, and the white mist above him merely dissipated at his feet. Had it been earth magic, it would have nearly crushed him, and high concentrations of life magic have been known to mutate their casters. Fire magic shouldn't need an explaination.

Nonetheless, it was the last of the experiments he had planned, and he went back to his house to conjore up new ones. Air magic and life magic was indeed an odd combination, but he was certain that he should be able to find at least one spell more useful than his current top, making chickens fly. Banana sat down in his chair, and continued to write in his notepad.