HELLO big fan of the tags you left on my art post!! I was also incredibly curious as to how lemli, ol' lems-lems, would manage to break a femur. I wonder whether the first skeleton she broke apart was done with surgical precision or if it was mostly done out of hungry desperation and guilt. then from there maybe it was refined, not for the sake of paying respect to the late wizard or the sacrifice, but to be smarter about conserving resources. I think it's a great metaphor for wizards of the old way only stopping to examine themselves as people and the every day functions they take for granted when it bears use to them (bc I mean... they magicked away their fecal matter so who cares how the body moves and structures itself until the body itself is a magical artifact)
Just over here living for an info dump that MATCHES the energy I put in the tags when I go off like this XD
I love seeing your thought. It's just FUN to see how others see something and what they focus in on. We each miss something and add something and go in unique directions and just... it's fun. It's fun and I love it. Have ever since a long time ago when a classmate said that a Robert Frost poem (Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening) was about Santa Claus (something I had never even CONSIDERED) and the teacher not only encouraged her, but got her to explain to us how she saw it that way and let her use it for a paper.
Back to your comments! The question is, how did the group find out that breaking a bone released magic in the first place? Was it an act of self defense? Did someone get in an accident and they felt the magic then? Could they sense it within the bones and got rabid enough to attack one of their own? Or worse, just a theory they wanted to test? If magic was within people, what horrors did they commit to discover where it resided and how to efficiently get the most magic for each bone? I'm not sure about you, but for me the implications get as vast as they are dark.