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 If you do this correctly, the spell will happen and you will also regain your flesh. If you do it incorrectly, you’re probably going to die, but you can usually try again until you do.
-You can apply the runes to other parts of your body as well.((You may even be able to use someone else’s flesh, if you can get them to hold still for it. It adds a bit of an additional level of risk – the caster and donor should be comparably shaped, since the spells “assume” the caster’s biology in the spell pieces and incompatibility in this space guarantees that a spell will be unsuccessful, but the important parts are mostly geometrical, and a bit of error on the sub-millimetre scale is allowed. The same caveat about death applies, though.)) It’s best you pick something you can recover from if it fails and you can’t figure out how to make it succeed, though, so limbs are popular. Unsurprisingly, sorcerers may often end up somewhat crippled.
+You can apply the runes to other parts of your body as well.((You may even be able to use someone else’s flesh, if you can get them to hold still for it. That said, the runes are designed with a standard human biology in mind, and e.g. other animals would need different geometries, as would someone with deformities, cancers or a disruptive disease.)) It’s best you pick something you can recover from if it fails and you can’t figure out how to make it succeed, though, so limbs are popular. Unsurprisingly, sorcerers may often end up somewhat crippled.
 **The underlying mechanism of magic is poorly understood in-character, but as players or story-tellers in //Carve//, you should know about the [[:magic:Aether]].**
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 ===== History =====
-Magic is a rediscovered art. The setting’s equivalent of the Aztecs discovered it, making archeology a useful field of study for sorcerers, occasionally discovering new spells just by making sense of some old writing.
+Magic is a rediscovered art. The setting’s equivalent of the Aztecs discovered it (in what later became [[location:earth:tamoanchan|Tamoanchan]]), making archeology a useful field of study for sorcerers, occasionally discovering new spells just by making sense of some old writing.
 In-character, it’s still unclear //how// the Aztec-equivalents originally discovered it at all, but the answer is basically fucked up human sacrifice rituals letting them (coarsely) communicate with the Aether that underlies this universe.