Crossed swords

[Anastasia]

"It must be seen. Show me," Will replies, "I will see."

[Corwin]

Seira taps her lips, and then uses divine power to gift her own perception of Shar merging into a wall of her demiplane to Will.

"I'm afraid I don't know the actual magic involved just yet, but here's what I witnessed myself."

[Anastasia]

"A system," Will begins immediately, "An independent system created to allow the merger of two entities as such, but also reliant on the harmony between them. Likes repel, except when they attract and merge as one. A merger of similar beings, of similar things. A system to combine without finality, to establish both a symbiotic and parasitic relationship. She did not take it as far as it could go. A demonstration, a test. A reserve. A surprise. The numbers 2 and 4 are paramount, but need not be because that is their natures. The harmony of body and soul. No, the recognition of it. The establishment of it in formality. The brain and the body. The body and soul. The mind and the will. The establishment of what is true on a deeper level. Are they not one already, but merely apart? Are you not a part of your realm, dragon, in a real way as you rule it?"

[Nephrite]

Moore blinks several times. "I think I understood most of that..."

[Corwin]

"I am, which is why the need to merge physically seems strange to me. My realm is as much a part of me as the concepts that are gathered under my aegis, so why a physical merger? Even when the Triune was formed, it was a merging of concepts alongside the physical, but I can't see it here with Shar. Could you elaborate, please?"

[Anastasia]

"It is the synthesis of the system. The point of the system. Souls, planes, gods. All part of the same system." Will explains. "But separate. This is deeper, more complete. Symbiotic. Unison."

More comes. "Yet it lends great power to her. Parasitic."

[Corwin]

"Is it inherently evil or ruinous for the plane? I didn't exactly have the time to study the technique, but would it benefit me to learn it?"

[Anastasia]

"No. The plane is stronger, but less aware. Different. You would need a new system. A work around. An impossibility like she had." Is the answer.

[Corwin]

"Would providing my realm with a constructed soul help with that? Then the Triune ritual could likely be used with only minor changes."

[Anastasia]

A consideration, "No. She had to go outside of the system to do it. Her own system. She borrowed from Mystra."

[Corwin]

"It makes sense, she cobbled together her own bastardized version of magic where I wouldn't do that to Mystra. So what you're suggesting is asking Mystra directly for a loan?"

[Anastasia]

"A new system," Is the agreement. "Yes."

[Corwin]

"I guess I know where I'm going next~" Grinning, Seira asks Will, "Hey, what about counterspells? Do you know of any useful ways to bolster one's skills with them?"

[Anastasia]

"Yes, but I believe you know them," Is Will's answer.

[Corwin]

"So did I, but then I chanced upon an artifact to boost it further," Seira muses. "You never know."