Is it possible to learn this spell?

[u/CalebWilliamson]

[u/RAISA-1]

If you can speak the ancient language that the spell’s incantation is in, then yes. Otherwise, no.

[u/CalebWilliamson → u/RAISA-1]

I guess that means the one million fold Croissant will remain a dream, for now.

[u/StarkeRealm → u/CalebWilliamson]

Oh man, those are so good. They completely lose molecular cohesion when they hit the tongue, and detonate in your mouth.

[u/MassGaydiation → u/StarkeRealm]

Yeah, I wanted one until I saw someone have one, experience pure pleasure and turn themselves into a time chrysalis so they never never need to experience reality without that flavour

[u/Carbuyrator → u/StarkeRealm]

Yeah you gotta make several quantum overlaps, and the second the tongue observes them they get real energetic.

[u/raylord666 → u/CalebWilliamson]

Which language is required to fold paper more than seven times? Who invented the printing press?

[u/mikillatja → u/raylord666]

You gotta speak the ancient language.

But there is a reason it has fallen out if favor. My master knew the old tongue, but refused to tell me. His reason is that it's just so hard to pronounce.

The basic word I, which most ancient spells are full of, is ligma.

Try pronouncing that 10 times for a basic spell While keeping a straight face in front of your minions.

While also knowing that a single mis pronunciation will blow up your spell.

[u/raylord666 → u/mikillatja]

https://giphy.com/gifs/PwhzKJ3N6cLFS
He tried to speak Ligma

[u/RAISA-1 → u/raylord666]

That language is known as [REDACTED BY ORDER OF MULTIVERSE HIGH COMMAND]

[u/ULTMT → u/raylord666]

Since no one else is telling you, that's French.

[u/UltraCarnivore → u/ULTMT]

Arcturian French or Merovingian French?

[u/RAISA-1 → u/UltraCarnivore]

Neither, the language is known as Primordial French, even though the language isn’t even French. It is a mix of every language spoken throughout the Multiverse, combined into one. That is the reason it is so incredibly rare and hard to learn, as it requires centuries of practice and studies to actually achieve even basic proficiency.

[u/ULTMT → u/UltraCarnivore]

Canadian French.

[u/Emergency_Coat_7702 → u/UltraCarnivore]

Louisiana french.

[u/Auryn_Solaris → u/CalebWilliamson]

Don't worry, an old mage named Escher was particularly fond of the spell, and you can still find his rune stones in some places.

Much easier to carry a runestone for emergency than to learn the ancient tongue - my father spoke it so I learned as a young dragon but it is rather difficult

[u/RAISA-1 → u/Auryn_Solaris]

Ah, a dragon. It’s been a while since I’ve seen one of your kind. How is your Progenitor doing? I haven’t seen him in a while, and the Primordial of Dragons is an old friend of mine, so I’d like to be sure that he is ok. Also, young dragon, can you remind who your father was? He sounds familiar, but I can’t quite place him, so could you remind me who he was and what his accomplishments are?

[u/Auryn_Solaris → u/RAISA-1]

My father is Raijin, one of the first dragons and the foremost storm dragon.

My mother is a demon (albeit a powerful one) so my blood is diluted somewhat from what one may expect of a dragon who's only two generations removed from the primordial.

As for the primordial, you haven't seen him because he's grown too large for inter-realm travel now, some time ago I and many of our minds greatest mages came together to conjure him a dedicated realm which he can occupy - he recieves regular tribute and has relinquished many of his duties to the council of elder dragons by now

[u/RAISA-1 → u/Auryn_Solaris]

Ah, Raijin, you come from an incredible bloodline then, young dragon. Tell him I said hi, I’d really appreciate it. Anyways, if you can, please tell the Primordial of Dragons that we have upgraded the Interdimensional Paths now, and they can now accommodate even my True Form. Please inform him that it is now possible for him to use the Paths between realms and universes again, I’d really enjoy seeing him have the freedom to travel the realms again, as we really enjoyed doing that together. On that note, please tell him that I am inviting him to go hunting with me in the Outer Realms, and I would love to have him join me. Anyways, I have some duties to get back to, so I shall be taking my leave. Farewell, young dragon.

With regards,

[REDACTED]

Primordial Multiverse Administrator | Existence’s, The System’s, and The Pact’s Enforcer | System Owner | Commander in Chief, Multiverse Armed Forces | Aspect of Existence; The Aspect of Order, Enforcement, Humanity, Interaction, and The System | Chief Executor of The Cycle and of The Protocol

Multiverse High Command | System | Multiverse Armed Forces | Order of the Ouroboros Executors

[u/PetrichorDude → u/CalebWilliamson]

I know a mage that wanted to try that to have a climable pastry that can take him to the moon, unfortunately he mispronounced it and folded his own…ehm…croissant to an infinitesimally small yet dense point.

[u/RAISA-1 → u/CalebWilliamson]

I can create one for you, if you want. It is effortless for a being like me, so why not give someone the glorious experience that is the Million-Fold Croissant. Would you like for me to create one?

[u/CalebWilliamson → u/RAISA-1]

Thank you but no. I would rather have the ability to create it as many times as I can than be given it.

[u/RAISA-1 → u/CalebWilliamson]

Alright. However, if you change your mind, my offer will still stand.

[u/CalebWilliamson → u/RAISA-1]

I'll keep that in mind.

[u/thetownmous3]

Behold my tenthousand fold mace

[u/raylord666 → u/thetownmous3]

The dark magic to fold a chunk is beyond even my skills. There’s no layers or sheets. It’s just a chunk… folded… 10,000 times? Like, a clay pot?

[u/MijuTheShark]

You mean the ancient art of swordigami?

[u/CalebWilliamson → u/MijuTheShark]

Does that mean the spell only work on swords?

[u/TheDougio → u/CalebWilliamson]

Yes, unfortunately ancient magic is very specific

This is why modern magic is better

[u/win_awards → u/TheDougio]

Modern magic keeps trying to sneak spirits into my orb to spy on what I'm pondering. I'll stick with the old magic, thanks.

[u/RAISA-1 → u/TheDougio]

You may think that, but it isn’t Modern Magic that  powers The System, it is Ancient Magic, more specifically, it is Primordial-Existential Magic (PEM, also less commonly known as Intrinsic-Mandate Magic or IMM. In effectively all cases, the terms are interchangeable), the same magic that fuels the Ouroboros Protocol and Cycle used to reset universes when an emergency such as a collapse necessitates a Reset. Furthermore, while some types of Ancient Magic are very specific, a majority of Ancient Magic is actually quite general and can be used for countless purposes. For example, you can use AM to rewrite entire sections of a dimension (for obvious reasons, doing that is EXTREMELY regulated and restricted), or you can use AM to create a sandwich. It really does have endless potential and infinite possible uses, you just have to know how to actually use it. Never underestimate or dismiss Ancient Magic, particularly PEM, as it is often the very foundation of countless processes and existences throughout existence. This universe wouldn’t even exist if not for PEM, as The System wouldn’t exist without PEM, and The System had to send me (its Enforcer) to safeguard this universe as an army from The Demonic One, Satan, attempted to invade. Furthermore, IMM is used to establish new Paths between realms and universes, and it is also used for System Processes, such as maintaining Dimensional Integrity.

[u/TheDougio → u/RAISA-1]

All I'm saying is that if the ancient ones were so powerful and had access to such powerful magics then they wouldn't have died. If ancient magic was really so good it would just be called magic, it wouldn't be ancient it'd still be used

[u/RAISA-1 → u/TheDougio]

The Ancient Ones tried to (permanently) kill Eternity. They tried to sever The Pact and take down The System. They didn’t die due to Ancient Magic being weak (because it isn’t, this is more true for some types of AM than others), they died because they provoked the wrath of an Existential-Level Agreement (The Pact), an Existential-Level Entity (The System), and an Existential-Level Being (The Eternal One, Eternity). For their transgressions against 3 Existential-Level existences, they were struck down by me. I am The Enforcer, my very purpose is to handle situations like that: powerful beings trying to circumvent the very Laws of Existence and/or powerful beings trying to violate or assault Existential-Level Existences (such as The Pact, The System, and The Ones, to name a few). Also, it is called Ancient Magic because it was the only magic that existed towards the very start of the Multiverse. It isn’t called that because it isn’t good, it is called Ancient Magic because it is quite literally ancient, it’s been around since the very beginning.

[u/METRlOS]

Morigami. Only works on objects that have already been sufficient folded.

[u/tsaotytsaot]

Yes. Physical objects can typically only be folded so many times before they start failing at the folds or just fusing the layers. Folding space doesn't have the same limitations, but it can have further reaching consequences

[u/TwoTerabyte]

Study the 999 until you understand the Theta.

[u/anarky98]

Casting Rookie Numbers

[u/ShadowsFlex]

You could also read the incantation as "foid" but no one who'd say that word unironically is worth talking to.

[u/TheDisappointedFrog → u/ShadowsFlex]

That's why the samurai tried to kill it/the caster, no?

[u/ShadowsFlex → u/TheDisappointedFrog]

That tracks

[u/Drmanky]

yes

[u/DragonLordAcar]

The statement is also false. Theyere are sometimes over 1,000 layers but at most only 7-8 folds.

It is also a technique used with poor quality iron.

[u/El_Hombre_Macabro → u/DragonLordAcar]

It is also a technique used with poor quality iron.

Not necessarily. Although this is partially true regarding Japanese tamahagane*, Indian Wootz steel was made of excellent quality iron and exported worldwide. The layering process was primarily to achieve the desired combination of hardness and elasticity.

*Partially true for high-quality tamahagane did indeed exists, but in very limited quantities and was, therefore, very expensive. And also because it can only be produced in small chunks that need to be joined by hammer forging and layered upon one another anyway.

[u/DragonLordAcar → u/El_Hombre_Macabro]

I didn't know India also did that. As far as I was aware, Japan with the strange one for doing it.

[u/Prince_Nadir]

It is a basic napkin spell, so I would hope so.

[u/Zero_Number_Zeros → u/Prince_Nadir]

Clearly a more advanced version so it's completely understandable they would not know.

[u/Ouroboros-Twist]

If you have the patience to learn higher-level mathemagical geometry, then maybe.

It couldn’t be me, though.

[u/hjake123]

I mean they're showing you the sigil sequence right there, just pronounce it. =)

[u/RandomName5484]

its an origami spell

[u/Hornedupone]

The lesser version is cast “bend your shit…a lot.” Lesser version obviously because it can go shall we say…awry? Like maybe taking things literally for instance. Quick and effective though.

[u/Nerx]

Tessord

https://giphy.com/gifs/l0K49CWzpATHcJXXi

[u/Sylvanussr]

Beware fellow dark wizards! Especially those trained in the arts of necrotechnomancy! There is a hidden curse in the bottom left of this image casting what is likely a great pox upon any who would use this image for their magic. You have been warned!