That was...a lot of question to which she could only shrug.
Would it have worked properly? A shrug. She had no way of knowing, given that she hadn't tried it again since.
Did it produce the exact opposite of what you'd intended? Yes and no. It had exploded magic when she'd meant to cancel, but the effects had been...pretty wild and random in their own right. Again, quite possibly due to the translation error.
"It's a language. Sort of. Like, if I wanted to fly, I'd say ylf instead. Or, if I wanted to levitate something, I'd say tfil ti pu. I have to say each word backwards, or else the spell won't work for me. It's an old family tradition stemming all the way back to one of my ancestors. He developed it."
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Would it have worked properly? A shrug. She had no way of knowing, given that she hadn't tried it again since.
Did it produce the exact opposite of what you'd intended? Yes and no. It had exploded magic when she'd meant to cancel, but the effects had been...pretty wild and random in their own right. Again, quite possibly due to the translation error.
"It's a language. Sort of. Like, if I wanted to fly, I'd say ylf instead. Or, if I wanted to levitate something, I'd say tfil ti pu. I have to say each word backwards, or else the spell won't work for me. It's an old family tradition stemming all the way back to one of my ancestors. He developed it."