Reforge Discussion, etc.

Thanks a bunch! I wasn't sure how that panel would work (especially with the one on the far right which I've never drawn digitally) so it's nice to hear that it came across alright.

As for Donna's suspicions, they're all about color. Donna doesn't actually have a lot to base this off of and is by no means certain of anything, but here's how it breaks down.

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The different elements of magic are each associated with a different palette:

(Although these are kind of general and I don't really stick to specific hexes or anything like that)
In the forest, Donna saw Cyan preparing to cast a spell, and she looked like this; at the time Donna thought the color seemed off but that it might have just been Air, which it looks close to.

Later, Cyan uses the same color of magic when conjuring up some energy blades to kill Aeron with. So Cyan's not only using a color that doesn't actually look like any of the elements, it's harder for Donna to believe that it's Air and she's just seeing things when Cyan's doing stuff with it that seems like it would probably not be under the domain of Air.

Like I said, none of this exactly proves anything, and all of it is just in Donna's memory. It's also worth noting just how significant of a claim this is to make- I had hoped to firmly establish that fact about the setting's cosmology before this came up but because of how things panned out I didn't manage to fit in a relevant scene before we hit this point. Oh well?

Suffice it to say, magic just is divided into the elements. It's not even a question, or a matter of academia- it's just a fact of reality that everybody knows and experiences every single day. There is only one exception (or three, or six, depending on who's counting), and it is a BIG DEAL and not relevant to the situation.

Also I now realize that in leaving out the old character creation and whatnot I never included in story the list of and colors of the elements? WHOOPS, gonna try and find a way to slide that in as a new first page in a way that actually works.