This morning I put the finishing touches on my puppet. it didn’t take much, just a small detail here and there, nothing that would cause any kind of substantial changes. But it was quick and easy so no reason not to.

After that I spent a bit of time making a sword, for that, I had someone that knows more than me help me out. Basically, I got a blacksmith from Par’s village to show me the general shape and structure of a sword while explaining why every part is the way it is, and a couple other things.

Ultimately I made most of the sword out of mundane wood, with the core being made out of spellwood. The spellwood is there mostly to constantly repair the blade, because it is surprisingly difficult to do that through a puppet. It does still feed off of the puppet’s mana, however, but that isn’t too big of a deal.

I then spent most of the rest of the day practising under the instruction of one of Par’s people. Mostly I’m trying to get to the point that I would do more good than harm using my puppet. it is surprisingly easy to cut your own limb off with a really sharp sword, even when that limb is made of hardened wood and designed explicitly not to be cut off. I think that after a week of practice I should be more or less good, not that I’ll be any good with a sword more that I’ll be barely passable. From there I would learn better by actually sparring instead of running drills, which is apparently how they train new recruits.

Other than swinging a sword around through a puppet all day not a lot happened. When I was building up fate I tended to mess up a lot during practice, which was embarrassing, but it did help me improve a lot more than I otherwise would have been able to. Something to do with my flaws being incredibly visible to my teacher. I’ll take that as further proof that Fate is based on subjective, in the moment situations, As opposed to the objective, actual value of the situation.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.