The Haan Study, What is the Minbry-Point?

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The Fifth Scroll: What is the Minbry-Point?

The Minbry-Point is a Haan element mainly belonging to the Cambriny family used as the foundation for spell composition in Dast Casting. It is also the first Haan element discovered by the newly created species of Sagen after the original Yulis gave the world to them. Its primary attribute for spellcasting is its ability to drag and hold other Haan elements into a singular location. And by doing so forces the held elements to react to each other.

Apart from the other Haan elements, the Minbry-Point is the only known element the people of Sagen are capable to completely control. Though it has been known to exist within the rain pattern of the Haan  elements, the Minbry-Point is the only element having the ability of both personal keep and usage for spellcasting. The Minbry-Point shares a lot of similarities with other Cambriny elements and is not the only Haan element with the ability of dragging other elements.

Within the academic world of Haan, the Minbry-Point is categorized in the family of Cambriny (refer to the ‘’What is Cambriny?’’ scroll for more information on the topic). Yet in many instances is held separate as its own elemental type. This is due to its abilities in Dast Casting. This is technically an incorrect way of categorising the element since there is no major difference between the Minbry-Point and the other Cambriny elements apart from its ability to be controlled by the Sagen people.

There is a direct linkage between the Minbry-Point and the Yulis’ powers over Haan. And there is no known ‘’limit’’ to how many people can have the ability to use their own Minbry-Point at any given time.

However, once the person has been given their own Minbry-Point to use for spellcasting, it is not possible for said person to have their Minbry-Point removed from them. There are several factors affecting the Minbry-Point’s abilities to construct spells. One of these are the Haan elements’ reactions to each other. In theory, spell compositions can be made up of any number of Haan elements regardless of amount or size. There is no known limit to how many elements are capable of existing within the same location.

The Minbry-Point can drag as many other elements as the imagination will allow. But is only able to hold a curtain amount at any given point. The Minbry-Point can only hold as many Haan elements as its powers allows it to. The Caster also has influence in the number of elements they can handle within the composition.

There are ways to get around this though.

One of the ways is to confine several Minbry-Point elements into the same location. This does not work to a great deal since the Minbry-Point elements do not ‘’combine’’ but simple stay close to each other. Making the effect closer to a chain link between them rather than a mixing of their abilities. Using the Minbry-Point has nothing to do with age nor experience of the person or being. But moreover, the ability to use one’s own Minbry-Point require most of the person’s mental focus. Both for keep and for usage.

And because of it affecting the person’s mental state to great extents, the person’s ‘’spell capacity’’ per day is then limited to the amount of phycological tiredness said person can manage. The mental drainage the Minbry-Point require to be used exists within all forms of Haan practices. Any usage of Haan will make the person involved mentally tired from it.

This also includes potion brewing in alchemy (refer to the ‘’What is Numbrina?’’ scroll for more information on the subject) and infuses of Haan items, such as talismans, spellbooks and Haan-related weaponry, like the hath. (refer to the ‘’What is a Catcher?’’ scroll for more information on the topic)

The person’s Minbry-Point do not always have a part in the person’s practices, such as alchemy. Yet if said person partakes in it will still be affected as if they would be using their spellcasting abilities. Despite the Minbry-Point being the first Haan element the people of Eferian discovered, it is always the last element to be described within written text. Almost every book and text in Sagen place the Minbry-Point as the last entry.

It is written this way, in the lore, due to it being the first element the Dast Caster learns. And therefore, are not in great need to be mentioned compared to the rest. This reason often leaves the Minbry-Point out of many texts written specifically to people who practice Dast Casting.

This way of thinking has altered a tremendous portion of texts surrounding Haan spells. One of these changes has to do with the way spell characters are written. Majority of times the Minbry-Point exist within the Haan characters. But, for texts written by experienced Haan practitioners to other experienced Dast Casters the Minbry-Point is left out of the Haan character.

This is because the Minbry-Point always has a mandatory part of spell composition. The Haan characters written is then drawn without the Minbry-Point in it. This practice brings it back to the Eferian continent being a large place with people of all kinds who do not always agree on one set standard for Haan practices. A major portion of the standards the Eferian people in the time of the main series use comes from after the construction of ROUE.

It was after The Sunset River University came to place where every Eferian empire gained a large portion of the standard practices the Eferian people of current time know and use. Due to these standard practices being as newly founded as they are: there are still major disputes within the Haan academic world of what is the ‘’right’’ way to practice Haan and how to present the information to others. The main opposition against the current standards is New-Feria Highmore who argue for the previous sets of written Haan for the sake of the traditional Haan culture for the entire Eferian continent.

For every person who claim one set of standards to be right, there are a multitude of others who oppose it. And the Haan practices then changes depending on region, culture, people, practices, and traditions.