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⚫ | A '''Smedry Talent''' is a form of magic where the user changes the world in strange ways. The only people known to possess talents are members of [[House Smedry]], and their spouses. The Talents are notoriously hard to control, and are known to 'get away' from their users, often to dramatic and hilarious effect. |
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− | |prereq=Belonging to [[House Smedry]] |
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− | |world=Earth (Alcatraz) |
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− | |books=[[Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians (series)]] |
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⚫ | A '''Smedry Talent''' is a form of magic where the user changes the world in strange ways. The only people known to possess |
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== Talents == |
== Talents == |
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− | * [[Allekatrase]] and [[Alcatraz Smedry|Alcatraz]] can break things |
+ | * [[Allekatrase]] and [[Alcatraz Smedry|Alcatraz]] can break things. This is known as the '''Dark Talent''' as it is very dangerous and hard to control |
+ | * [[Leavenworth Smedry|Leavenworth]] arrived at things late. This extends to things such as bullets, wounds, and pain, making him very tough to kill. |
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− | * [[Leavenworth Smedry|Grandpa Smedry]], Alcatraz's grandfather, has the power to arrive late to appointments. As such, he is always running behind the clock. But his power also allows him to arrive late to other things, like bullets, which always miss him{{book ref|a1|4}}, and his blood can arrive late to wounds so that he doesn't bleed to death{{book ref|a1|16}}. In his own words "I've been arriving late to my own death for years now." However, as seen in [[The Shattered Lens]], he only needs to think that he will be late. Alcatraz tells him that he needs to be at [[Tuki Tuki]] by midnight or the war will be lost. Leavenworth Smedry, interpreting that as a deadline to arrive late to, speeds up tremendously in order to arrive at the battle by 12:30.{{book ref|shattered lens|???}} |
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− | * [[Sing Sing Smedry|Sing]] |
+ | * [[Sing Sing Smedry|Sing]] trips easily. His tripping is usually a sign of danger. |
− | * [[Australia Smedry|Australia]] can wake up looking incredibly ugly |
+ | * [[Australia Smedry|Australia]] can wake up looking incredibly ugly. In practical terms this means that she wakes up as a doppelganger of whoever she went to sleep thinking about. |
+ | * [[Quentin Smedry|Quentin]] speaks nonsense (possibly predicting the future). |
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− | * [[Quentin Smedry|Quentin]] speak gibberish or nonsensical phrases. His Talent was beneficial after being captured by the Librarians, as they could not understand him and thus could not gain important information from him, even through torture{{book ref|a1|16}}. His gibberish can also be used to predict future events if interpreted properly{{book ref|a1|18}}. |
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− | * [[Kazan Smedry|Kaz]] |
+ | * [[Kazan Smedry|Kaz]] gets lost very easily. Basically a form of teleportation that is a bit unpredicatble, to say the least. |
− | * [[Attica Smedry|Attica]] and [[Shasta Smedry|Shasta]] |
+ | * [[Attica Smedry|Attica]] and [[Shasta Smedry|Shasta]] lose things. Similar to Kaz's talent. |
− | * [[Pattywagon Smedry|Pattywagon]] |
+ | * [[Pattywagon Smedry|Pattywagon]] says inappropriate things at the worst time |
⚫ | * [[Aydee Ecks Smedry|Aydee]] is really bad at maths. The catch is that the universe warps to fit her bad math. If she thinks there's four of something and there's really only three, then another one will appear. This is confirmed to be a physical-world talent. She can't create things that don't exist, but moves them around in space to fit her math. |
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− | * [[Folsom Smedry|Folsom]] and [[Himalaya Smedry|Himalaya]] can dance really poorly. The dancing most often appears to take the form of violent fighting{{book ref|a3|16}}. |
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⚫ | * [[Aydee Ecks Smedry|Aydee]] is really bad at |
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− | * [[Alcatraz Smedry VII|Alcatraz VII]] can make annoying noises at inappropriate times. This causes distraction, allowing him to win many [[Oculator]] duels. |
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− | * [[Libby Smedry|Libby]] can spill copious amounts of water on the floor when she is washing the dishes. She allegedly "single-handedly ended the drought of Kabreeze during the fourth-third century- and she did it while keeping all their dishware sparkling clean." |
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− | == The |
+ | == The Incarna Wheel == |
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− | {{image|Futhark Wheel.png|side=right|width=200px|<center>The depiction of the Incarnate Wheel in [[Allekatrase]]'s tomb</center>}} |
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− | {{image|Allekatrase Wheel.png|side=right|width=200px|<center>The translation of the Incarnate Wheel in [[Allekatrase]]'s tomb</center>}} |
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− | A time talent is something like |
+ | A time talent is something like grandpa Smedry's ability to arrive late to things. A space talent is like Kaz's ability to "get lost" and then get found again somewhere else (teleportation). A physical-world talent is like Australia's ability to changer her appearance. A knowledge talent is like Sing's ability to trip when there's going to be danger. |
− | The more powerful, or 'pure' a talent is, the closer it's placed to the center of the wheel. Talents that are vague are more powerful than talents that are specific. For instance, Australia can "wake up ugly" (change her appearance) for a short time after she wakes up, provided she fell asleep thinking about someone. It's very specific, so it's close to the edge of the wheel. Other |
+ | The more powerful, or 'pure' a talent is, the closer it's placed to the center of the wheel. Talents that are vague are more powerful than talents that are specific. For instance, Australia can "wake up ugly" (change her appearance) for a short time after she wakes up, provided she fell asleep thinking about someone. It's very specific, so it's close to the edge of the wheel. Other Smedry's in history had been able to change their appearance whenever the wanted, not just when the woke up, so they would be placed closer to the center. |
− | When Kaz explains the wheel to Alcatraz |
+ | When Kaz explains the wheel to Alcatraz they get into a discussion about where the breaking talent that Alcatraz has would be placed. Kaz said that's a matter of dispute. Some say it's just a physical-world talent, others say it's something more that affects all four areas (there's legends of Alcatraz the First breaking time and space). Alcatraz later finds an Incarna wheel made by the Incarna themselves while in Alcatraz the First's tomb, and the Breaking Talent is placed at the very center of the wheel. |
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− | Alcatraz later finds an Incarnate wheel in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark Elder Futhark] made by the Incarna themselves while in [[Allekatrase]]'s tomb, and the Breaking Talent is placed at the very center of the wheel. This wheel is mirrored from the wheel Kaz showed to Alcatraz. It also has two additional named sections, Possibility and Identity, which Kaz calls "classical philosophy" and "metaphysics." It also has four, smaller, unlabeled sections on the sides. |
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− | Alcatraz speculates that each talent is an offshoot of the Dark Talent. |
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− | * [[Alcatraz]]'s talent is similar to the [[Shatterer's Lenses]]{{book ref|a4|Four Teens and a Pickle}} |
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− | * [[Kaz]]'s talent has a function similar to the [[Traveler's Lenses]]{{book ref|a4|Four Teens and a Pickle}} |
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− | * [[Leavenworth Smedry]]'s talent does something similar to the [[Educator's Lenses]]{{book ref|a4|Four Teens and a Pickle}} |
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− | * [[Quentin Smedry]]'s talent is similar to the [[Oracle's Lenses]], as they are both confusing, but each tells the future |
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− | *[[Folsom]] and [[Himalaya]]'s talents may be connected with the [[Warrior's Lenses]] |
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− | The [[Incarna]] created the [[Smedry]] line as a power source for their glass and culture. The Smedrys can charge any kind of glass with this power inside them. How Talents are similar to Lenses is not a coincidence, and might be a way to funnel off a Smedry's energy. Once the Talents left, the Smedry Power had nowhere to go, eventually building up to the point where every piece of glass touched by a Smedry was over-energized. How the Incarna people gave out Smedry Talents is still unknown, but likely involves the [[Worldspire]].{{book ref|dark talent|18}} |
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== Notes == |
== Notes == |
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