Elias was a magician of mediocre talent and dwindling hope. He could pull a decent dove from a mediocre hat and fumble through a cup-and-ball routine that only his mother pretended to be amazed by. His dusty library was filled with crumbling grimoires, each promising ultimate power but delivering only cramped hands from copying intricate diagrams.

She was no longer a mage. She was a .

She found the variable: magic.potential = 1.0