by Alicorn » Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:32 am
4 and eleven 3s is it and pretty unheard of (Maurabel is 4/3/3/3/2/2/2/2/1/1/0/0 and about 97th percentile). "Not being a mage" is a birth defect but how many affinities you have and how many is pretty random (it would be a birth defect of some kind if you were born with no hair on your body but extremely wide variance in exactly how much is normal); it is a little (but not a lot) heritable, mostly random, I might decide it has something to do with proximity of elementals while you're in the womb or something.
It looks like the flaringest halo flare of all time, on the elemental; the amulet bursts into tiny bits. The elemental is suddenly no longer paralyzed (even if they weren't being controlled that much, it feels like that) and overwhelmed with all the emotions they were not able to fully express because they were being controlled all at once. Doesn't feel like anything to the freer except that the amulet bursts into tiny bits. The elemental's connection through the amulet persists long enough for them to find and kill the person thereby.
Did I say "spell", I've been trying to avoid that but we don't have a good word for "informal skosh of magic-doing". Doing magic is like a motor task, it doesn't fundamentally have basic units and you can make adjustments and tradeoffs all over the damn place with energy, elegance, practice, efficacy, keeping it under control, etc. There aren't magical "limbs" but you can sort of think of having a 1 in an element as like getting around with one leg, a 2 as getting around with two legs, a 3 as playing piano with one hand, and a 4 as playing piano with two hands.