Spark // Glimmer

"I might be only a lowly Sparkster, but I know a few tricks. How about a short-term coma, overloading your very brain with countless disruptive electrical signals to start things off?
Not interested?
*snap*
Fine, I got nothing then.
I will take my leave, my work here is done.
Oh, one last thing.
I advise removing the dynam - *boom*
Oh bother ... too late."

Taken sparkster Micor Havenborn

Spark/Glimmer

The most basic variant of using the gift of integrity is to conjure up a glimmer or spark by snapping fingers. These sparks are weak, powerless and can cause no physical harm. They only conduct a brief pulse of electricity or scorch up in a punctual hot fire before dissipating nearly instantaneous. Sparkster can light up candles with them and even stimulate organic matter to only name a few possible uses.
But the possibilities of the spark can get expanded by overstretching your arcane mind finding new ways to use that adaptive ability.

"I thought of this as a divine punishment when I got taken by that speasel.
But the more I experiment with what I have, the more I understand just how dangerous an instantaneous sensation can be.
Sometimes it doesn't take much to ignite a rebellion, not more than one - small - spark."

Micor

Reinforce/Diminish

Sparksters tend to care about anatomy sooner or later, be it their own or that of their friends or even enemies. All that to grant their little harmless bombs the necessary punch to start something substantial.

Going the beneficiary route the spark could get used to stimulate dopamine or pheromone production, numb pain receptors, or control production in general, causing a weak healing factor to the user or target. Using sparks within the casters own body doesn't require a snap and some trained that stimulation to be of constant nature buffing their abilities for as long as they are conscious.

If the user desires to cause pain and suffering instead, messing around with the production of his enemies is a valid way as well. They can use this to apply „curses“ on others, by ever so slightly triggering pain receptors, overloading certain production sources in the body causing nausea, giddiness or causing even minor or major system disruptions. A Sparkster, who knows the body of their victims, sees them like marionettes to the power of the spark.

Suggestion/Disruption

A way, that focuses in its entirety on the brain of the target. Guiding the sparks to specific places in the grey matter can cause numerous useful effects:

Digging into parts, where the personality of the victim is stored and causing there a firework of gentle sparks can help the target to remember stuff or shift their priorities wanting to do something else than they did before. The suggestion is no precise science, it is a wildcard of causing random effects entirely dependant on the victim.

By predicting the enemy and igniting single sparks at synapses currently in use, is the Sparkster able to delay messages to the body by useful milliseconds dodging the undodgeable. These disruptions can become harmful by multiplying the attack points reaching all the way to causing a short term coma overloading the brain for a few minutes to multiple hours.

"No, I won't use this cursed ability again, Jesca.
The last time I used a suggestion, trying to help Pelukis, had that poor bastard suddenly the desire to learn how to cook pastries.
And *mhmmm* he has gotten so good with them.
I don't feel comfortable messing around with brains other than mine.
What if I cause repressed memories to become reactivated?"

Micor

Sparkster Micor by Soulwing

Aquired Through
Symbiosis with a Speasel
General Name
Sparkster

Related School

Common manifestation of the gate of integrity

Related Element

Weak assotiation to the fire and lightning element.

Effect Duration

Every spell of a Sparkster is instantanious with no duration.

Range

Vision and Audio:
If the sparkster is able to clearly make out a location via his senses, they can cast a spark/glimmer there.

Useless

Sparks are seen as by far the weakest arcane gift to receive from undergoing symbiosis with arcane animals. Weak, not at all flashy and overall without much potential, are Sparksters seen as weaklings, who have made a foolish decision. Most Sparksters ignore their powers besides igniting candles, but some start experimenting.

Situational

Sparks and Glimmers are gravely dependant on the weather and the whim of nature. If it is raining or the air moisture is high are glimmers useless but Sparks substantially stronger. Gas leaks and dry leaves can serve as useful catalysts.

"My pressure cannon?
Filled it with an explosive gas I can ignite on command.
And as long as the cannon has no igniter, it is considered a legal civil defence."

Micor

Applied Restrictions

A Sparkster is heavily restricted in its ways forced to cause a 'snap' to kickstart a spark.
Common variants of fulfilling that condition are finger-snapping, but the clicking of the tongue can be eligible as well.
But as the conditions are equally soft as the magic caused by it found people different ways to let it 'snap'.
From the cracking of the back or fingers all the way to enhanced eyelids; if it serves to make the ability more versatile it will get used.