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** Alchemist who have attempted human transmutation, which involves seeing the GateOfTruth (essentially a gnostic revelation) understand the fundamentals of the process to a much greater degree, to the point that 'drawing' is a simple matter of forming a circle with their hands (by clapping and drawing the hands apart) then pointing it at the target to be transmuted. Convenient, but it can literally [[EquivalentExchange cost them an arm and a leg, or worse]].
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** Alchemist Alchemists who have attempted human transmutation, which involves seeing the GateOfTruth (essentially a gnostic revelation) understand the fundamentals of the process to a much greater degree, to the point that 'drawing' is a simple matter of forming a circle with their hands (by clapping and drawing the hands apart) then pointing it at the target to be transmuted. Convenient, but it can literally [[EquivalentExchange cost them an arm and a leg, or worse]].
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** Alchemist who has attempted human transmutation, which involves seeing the GateOfTruth (essentially a gnostic revelation) understand the fundamentals of the process to a much greater degree, to the point that 'drawing' is a simple matter of forming a circle with their hands (by clapping and drawing the hands apart) then pointing it at the target to be transmuted. Convenient, but it can literally [[EquivalentExchange cost them an arm and a leg, or worse]].
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** Alchemist who has have attempted human transmutation, which involves seeing the GateOfTruth (essentially a gnostic revelation) understand the fundamentals of the process to a much greater degree, to the point that 'drawing' is a simple matter of forming a circle with their hands (by clapping and drawing the hands apart) then pointing it at the target to be transmuted. Convenient, but it can literally [[EquivalentExchange cost them an arm and a leg, or worse]].
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* Within Rick Cook's ''Literature/WizBiz'' novels, the protagonist finds a way to employ his programming skills to store and retrieve complex spells using [[JustForPun counting daemons]].
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* Within Rick Cook's ''Literature/WizBiz'' novels, the protagonist finds a way to employ his programming skills to store and retrieve complex spells using [[JustForPun [[{{Pun}} counting daemons]].
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* ''Literature/ReignOfTheSevenSpellblades'': "Spatial magic" is a class of quickly castable spells like Oliver's favored "Grave Soil" spell that don't require an incantation and therefore are much easier to use within the "one step, one spell" distance.[[note]]A distance of roughly one pace where a weapon can almost always strike faster than any mage can cast a spell.[[/note]] The NecessaryDrawback is that they're much less powerful than conventional spells (the [[MagicAIsMagicA general rule in the series]] being, [[LatinIsMagic the more Latin words in the incantation]], the more powerful the spell), but they have significant utility in hand-to-hand combat, often being enough to create an opening for another attack.
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* We never see it done the long way but in ''VideoGame/DmCDevilMayCry'', Kat has studied wiccan rituals and spells, which has taught her that these sorts of things can take extensive preparation, possibly on the order of several days. So, instead of simply mixing ingredients and drawing seals when they're needed, Kat put pre-mixed spellcasting ingredients into spray cans and traced out her magic seals onto stencils, allowing her to instantaneously set up a spellcasting ritual without needing any preparation.
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* We never see it done the long way but in ''VideoGame/DmCDevilMayCry'', ''VideoGame/DMCDevilMayCry'', Kat has studied wiccan rituals and spells, which has taught her that these sorts of things can take extensive preparation, possibly on the order of several days. So, instead of simply mixing ingredients and drawing seals when they're needed, Kat put pre-mixed spellcasting ingredients into spray cans and traced out her magic seals onto stencils, allowing her to instantaneously set up a spellcasting ritual without needing any preparation.
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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': For the longest time (we're talking centuries), the [[SentientCosmicForce system of magic]] on Earth provided a significant amount of "handholding" to casters, which handled most of the minor details and generally covered RequiredSecondaryPowers, and casting generally became intuitive for most users. Comes the [[TheMagicComesBack magical not-change]], which should allow more people to start using magic, but this comes at the cost of the training wheels falling off. Those who relied on spells, either innate, learned, or stored in wands, that assumed this handholding find themselves casting spells that [[MagicMisfire don't do what they should]], or [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/balance-007 backfire catastrophically]]. Those who were trained to cast spells by [[ScientificallyUnderstandableSorcery controlling every aspect manually]] find themselves exempt from this problem.
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* In ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'', usually the more powerful a spell is, the longer and more complicated the vocals needed to cast it become. Raquel, a very powerful sorceress, can skip most of that and cast using a single short sentence that doesn't even have to rhyme. According to the light novels, spellcasting is actually triggering specific computer programs in the world; Raquel is constantly running an emulator, so she just has to "double-click" her spells.
* Claudia Dodge in ''LightNovel/CoffinPrincessChaika'' is able to use her gundr ''much'' more quickly and efficiently than Chaika can as her incantations are only a few syllables long instead of numerous words. This series was also written by the same guy who wrote ''Scrapped Princess.''
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this:
* Claudia Dodge in ''LightNovel/CoffinPrincessChaika'' is able to use her gundr ''much'' more quickly and efficiently than Chaika can as her incantations are only a few syllables long instead of numerous words. This series was also written by the same guy who wrote ''Scrapped Princess.''
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this:
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* In ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess'', ''Literature/ScrappedPrincess'', usually the more powerful a spell is, the longer and more complicated the vocals needed to cast it become. Raquel, a very powerful sorceress, can skip most of that and cast using a single short sentence that doesn't even have to rhyme. According to the light novels, spellcasting is actually triggering specific computer programs in the world; Raquel is constantly running an emulator, so she just has to "double-click" her spells.
* Claudia Dodge in''LightNovel/CoffinPrincessChaika'' ''Literature/CoffinPrincessChaika'' is able to use her gundr ''much'' more quickly and efficiently than Chaika can as her incantations are only a few syllables long instead of numerous words. This series was also written by the same guy who wrote ''Scrapped Princess.''
*''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this:
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