Warding
To perform a Warding, it is not enough for one to simply know how to draw a circle and all the associated symbols. One must have total belief in what they are doing. Total certainty that the Warding will function as one intends it to. Total conviction that it will hold against anything.
Warding is the art of creating a protective barrier between a Soul and something that threatens them. To create a Warding, first a circle must be created, or "drawn", in the air. Within this circle, mystical symbols must be inscribed, each one layered on top of the one before it. Unlike a Conjuration, order is not important when drawing the symbols, only that all must be present and correct at the end. As the complexity of the Warding and the quantity of symbols grows, it may become necessary to add additional smaller circles and other geometrical structures such as triangles, diamonds, and pentagrams to the original circle. Some experts in scribing Wardings are known to forgo the circular and regular geometrical patterns and instead opt to go for elliptical Wardings and asymmetrical geometrical features. A few Wardings have even been known to have included parabolic and hyperbolic features. Such shapes and features are incredibly difficult to perform reliably, and as such only true masters of the art regularly practise them.
The art of Warding is closely related to Conjuration, and the mechanisms behind them both are almost identical though inverted relative to each other.
Warding is weird. You have to draw your circles inside-out.
It's neat reading about how the wards are made, but I wouldn't mind learning a bit more about what kinds of things wards can do. Could it protect me from someone flinging daggers at me? Does it repulse certain kinds of beings?
Thank you! This is still very much a first draft atm. I'll be expanding this later on.