#whereas all the junior canaries we see have wooden staves with a slight crook but no enclosure

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tries to write a little creature and gets distracted for two hours analyzing staves from the manga for like. literally two paragraphs in the opening that are just supposed to help set the scene i hate it here

#a little creature #possamble #if anyone cares. it seems like gnomish magic users have some sort of circle/loosely enclosed space at the end of the staff #that involves metal at least a little #eg. rin's metal staff / all of falin's staves that weren't straight up maces / etc. #ironically most of the actual gnomes that appear don't use staves and seem to be free casters or spirit users #whereas all the junior canaries we see have wooden staves with a slight crook but no enclosure #(and all the extremely experienced mages have their own unique arcane focus or are free casters) #the only magic users we see that have a wooden staff with a circular head are marcille and fionil... the only two half elves we see #which possibly sets the really interesting implication that fionil might also be a hybrid caster who uses both systems #ETA: i believe maizuru is the only mage we see who uses the eastern system #and she seems to fall into the spirit user/unique arcane foci (paper) category for understandable reasons #though i do wonder what non-ninja magic looks like over there #since i get the feeling that she's a highly espionage-focused and specialized mage