Craft

Essentially the use of magic as an innate talent or quality rather than a taught speciality<ref>I was so talented with what little they were able to teach me, but when I went to the circle and the tutors that waited for me there, I failed. I was held back a year, criticized, and it was suggested that the practice wasn’t for me. An instructor even suggested I was lying when I said I’d made some of the things I’d brought. My spirits were so low that I started to believe it myself.

It took me four more years before I deciphered the riddle.

Practice, my dears, is about repetition, rhythm, and presentation. We take some form of power, often something Others have to offer, or a bit of our Self, and we use our inviolable word to push that power into the ruts that the past has carved into existence. Those ruts are the circuits in the computer of reality, the currents in the aether of unreality.
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This was my difficulty, because I was raised with what I would term craft, rather than by practice. The word ‘practice’ implies rote repetition, with aim of perfection. Craft, on the other hand, is skill. Something that comes from the honing of the self. If it is to be used by people other than oneself, then it requires a skill in conveying something to the audience, or in inviting the audience in. - Excerpt from Forged Hearts</ref>. These are not of course mutually exclusive but still distinct.<ref>“Dude, Avery, I set up this whole thing with glamour and my phone, carrying the sound of the ringtone and lack of ringtone into the glamour I painted around myself, and I managed to keep that intact while I was wind.”

“Okay? That sounds cool?” Avery asked, unsure.

“This was craft, Ave. I’ve talked to you about the distinction between craft and practice, right? This was craft. This was what I’m after. When it becomes more art than science.”

“Fantastic,” Avery said. “I’m not sure I get it, but fantastic.”

“It’s the sorceress goal, you know? I want to feel like I have craft in a bunch of different practices, and I feel like I got there with glamour today.”

“I don’t know how you do it, Verona, I’ve mainly got the one practice and I don’t think I’m at that level of craft with it yet.”

“You’re getting there. I think you’re probably doing a lot of intuitive stuff with Paths, and you don’t even realize it. Key is mindfulness, like I’ve been learning with stuff that helps me stay on track with school.”

“Mindfulness, huh? I was thinking more of like, hmmm, instinct. Being in the zone.”

“But like, on default. I’ve talked about the art zone. [...] It’s easier with glamour. Certain practices listen better,” Verona explained. “Anyway, that’s my cool thing. I’ll show you later.” - Excerpt from In Absentia 21.14</ref> Can cover things like Enchantment

Somewhat similar to the phenomena where Aware can have abilities that practitioners do not.

Avery and Verona had a discussion about this while hunting the Aurum Coil.

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