Spell Parry
Effect
By matching the vibration of the Song that makes up all magic, one can parry any spell cast on them. Redirect, or return to sender. Parrying is far easier, as all it does is reflect the magic away from the Caster. Redirecting is taking ownership of the spell itself and repurposing it, but requires far more technical skill to do so. Then again, if a Caster already had control over another's spell, why not send it back?
Side/Secondary Effects
Should the vibration not match perfectly, the parry will turn into a block. Though, a block still absorbs quite a bit of the force originally intended, the Caster will still take the hit if not done perfectly. Should the spell in question be sufficiently powerful, it can still be lethal. A Caster can avoid the worst of it if the vibration isn't matched perfectly by getting close enough. If off only by a few degrees, it will cancel out as much as possible.
Manifestation
As Cori of the Skullbrood Clan taught her new spell to others, she almost always taught them to use physical movement to match the timing. Very similar to an actual parry, she taught all that it forced the mind to adjust the magic to fit the purpose. The spell itself is a change in the song the Caster is singing, harmonizing with another that was using magic against you. The movement often would be and after-image that echoed the runic Elder Fae with the notes of the song being visible in the air.
Discovery
Slash, parry, dodge, jump, soar. Still unfamiliar with the weight of my tail, but it felt so right. A balance I didn't know I was missing as my ears fell flat against my skull, rolling into another landing without so much as raising a dust cloud. Spear flinging out to down another Shade, square in the chest, no wasted movement. I saw the starry night sky of my skin reflected in their eyes as they didn't even know what hit them, target after target downed. Twelve seconds since I jumped from the airship, fifty-four targets down.
The six pistols in my belt unneeded so far, each had only six shots, couldn't waste them until I broke this frontline. Dodge, duck, slash, parry, throw. I couldn't help it, I was smiling again, this movement was so freeing. Like I had been wearing weights on my ankles my entire life, I was the wind through the battlefield like a angel of death. I laughed out loud with a noise that gave the swarm of combatants down below me pause for the sheer joy in it, my voice amplified to the nines, that force our voice held was so much more powerful!
"Damnit Illy! When I come back I'm going to kiss you right on the mouth!" I giggled as I landed with a shockwave sending over a dozen Shades outward. The lessons she was teaching us after she came back swam through my head, as I used my voice to control the world around me, weaving tempests and twisters across the sands, arcing lightning through the ground glassing the enemy's feet to where they stood, while my spear found its mark, every time!
She told me I could shapeshift now, I wasn't entirely sure how. Though, just a change in pitch of the song, and where my legs had been now where the strong and agile legs of an antelope. Each step, and jump more powerful and nimble than before, I felt graceful. The world moved in slow motion, while I was untethered from the shackles of gravity, I breathed deep. The joy of that song filling me as I laughed again.
I saw it, just a moment before, out of the corner of my eye. The spark of white energy, the world went quiet as I breathed in deep. All magic was her song, all magic was our song. That Shade Caster, whether it knew it or not was singing a song with words or not, I matched its vibration. Swatting away that bolt of lightning that dimmed the skies and burned the atmosphere around it, parrying it into another group of Shades.
From the belt, one quick motion, upside down, midair. Still descending back to the earth as tail balanced me back out, my shot rang out. I only needed one. That Shade Caster was dead before it hit the ground, bullet hole square in it's forehead. I landed lightly balancing on the tip of my spear, surging power into my voice the way Illy had taught me. "Come on! Isn't there anything here that's a challenge?!" I laughed as I realized I had just made a new spell that I didn't even think that uppity Anlyth knew about.
Related Deity/Higher Power
Related Organizations
Related Discipline
The Shadow Voice Magic of Ilgor High Priestess of the Skullbrood clan
Related School
Tonal Domain
Related Element
Air
Effect Duration
Dependent
Effect Casting Time
Instant
Applied Restriction
Typically limited to physical combat magic, magics effecting the mind tend to be nearly impossible to parry.
A challenge, eh? -kicks Sol in the ass, sending him forward-
Do you really want Sol and Cori to fight? Might be interesting!
That would have to be in the arena. They're too destructive otherwise lol Not sure how it would go, with each of them at full power.