Sealing

Sealing is one of the Four Talents bestowed upon mankind by the goddess Sha. It is the ability to use the flow of power present in the world to alter reality.

Manifestation of Sealing
Together with Wiser, Sealing is a rather rare Talent with only some one hundred fully trained Sealers currently at work within the Order at Eresath and another hundred spread out around the realm. It's manifestation will most times happen in tense situtations where someone is under a lot of pressure.

Someone who manifests Sealing for the first time will often feel like a wish they had just came true. It's dark and they want light, it's freezing and they need some warmth... The most basic seals are easily formed subconsciously and will sometimes even be formed without the person forming them noticing.

During the Testing, it's rather simple to see if someone has Sealing powers IF they have already manifested their powers. A simple seal to prevent people from entering the arena can filter out those with manifested Talents (this obviously also counts for the other Talents). To see which Talent those people have, Sealers and Wisers at Eresath have developed a method to create a Seal that reacts in different ways to the different Talents. Abour 95% of the time, people detected by these method are Sealers.

Nature of Sealing
Sealing uses the power in everything to alter reality as the Sealer sees fit.

Forming a seal
The very first lesson every Sealer gets at Eresath is how to form a basic light seal. It's one of the easiest and useful seals to learn and it usually takes less than a day for a new student to create a small light-emitting orb. To form the light, and eventually all seals, the Sealer points the palm of his dominant hand towards the location where he wants the seal to form. Next, the appropriate word, and visual image if needed, are formed in the mind of the Sealer and all focus is put on that. In this case, the students simply think of the word Light and try to create a floating orb of light where their palm is pointing.

Dependant on the Sealer's own abilities and the willpower put behind the seal, the Light could die out after only a few seconds are stay lit for over a year.

The Basic Seals
There are over a thousand types of seals and a lot more waiting to be discovered, but every student starts with mastering the Basic Seals. They are the foundation for a lot more difficult seals and can be formed in a fraction of a second by a fully trained Sealer.

The Basic Seals in order of difficulty and learning order.

Light
A floating orb that emmits light. It can vary in size, brightness, lifespan and is, if not combined with other words, stationary.

Warmth & Coldness
A non-visual seal that affects the temperature of the targetted area. It's most commonly used as a barrier around the Sealer to keep him warm or cool.

Silence
A sound barrier that blocks all sound from either entering, exiting or both. Mostly used in situations that require the Sealer to stay unnoticed.

Detection
A seal that warns the caster when someone or something makes contact with the seal. More advanced Sealers are able to alter their detection seals to only activate when certain people with certain Talents touch it.

Restriction
An invisible barrier that prevents anything (besides people with manifested Talents) from passing through it. This seal is always used at the arena entrances of Testings to already filter out people before the Testing begins.

Combining seals
Once the 5 Basic Seals can be formed without a second thought, students can start combining different seals with each other. The principle remains the same, but the more seals one wishes to combine, the more they need to focus and the more inner strength and willpower they need.

Some examples of combining seals.
 * Light & Attachment: an orb of light that follows the caster wherever he goes.
 * Restriction & Attachment: create a rope-shaped barrier to tie something down with air. Often used as temporary handcuffs.
 * Detection & Restriction: a combination that only the most experienced Sealers can use. It detects certain people and blocks them out when detected.

Sealers in the Realm
Unlike Enhancers, who are almost always easy to recognise by their gear and attitude, Sealers are much harder to spot. There are those who hold high positions at courts and army staffs, but more than one works from the shadows, trying to maintain the peace by careful manipulation and forgery. In order to satisfy and ensure nobles and commanders, the Order selects certain Sealers to work openly at their high positions while others infiltrate unnoticed.

It occurs that a Sealer goes rogue, stealing and committing crime for their own personal gain without getting caught. This fact has made Sealers something to fear in the eyes of the common folk. They believe, and there are some truths in their beliefs, that Sealers are able to transport themselves from one place to the other in the blink of an eye and can kill a man with just the gesture of their hand.

The Sealers do not officially have a First Sealer, although there are rumours of certain organisations within the Sealer community.