Commission for  yowza, who also wrote the story to go with it.

… or in a more familiar case, dolls and puppets. Foci for both mind and magic which are far more enjoyable to work with, not to mention enjoy it all more for themselves as well.

But as mentioned, the idea of their own knowledge at hand far often outstrips the reality of the situation, allowing for far less realized things to take root and influence the conceptual reality nearby.

And when one of these hard to grasp constructs of seemingly unimaginable - though far more often simply unknown - concepts chose to manifest, the unfortunate bystander may find themselves caught in something they can scarcely understand and with little knowledge or power to free themselves again.

As such, with the knowledge of how to escape the unknown’s grasp may be out of reach - in turn very often compounding the situation beyond what is necessarily necessary - the lack of understanding can easily translate into a lack of perception and clarity.

And even if the mind in question indeed held the potential for countering or otherwise manipulating the ideas at hand, one must also be able to perceive the ideas, understand the core concept, comprehend what they truly entail and their role in the world.

Thus, effectively blinded from what may linger behind, with the knowledge needed to weed it out all but unknown, one must forgive even the seasoned academic for slipping up.

I mean.

How can one possibly take into account - to defend against - something, if one may not even know it exists to begin with?

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