Today I created a crude method to automatically trigger the counter-enchantments in case I am indisposed if, for example, I am in too much pain to react. This method is purely reactive and is very slow, basically, it waits until a decent chunk of my body has been destroyed before triggering, anything less and there are way too many false starts. At first I didn't think that would be a problem, but it seems to disrupt my ability to use magic when active, and me using magic on myself is what causes the false starts to begin with.

I'm certain that I could figure out solutions to these problems, but I wanted to get something working now in case I get attacked like that again. I'll likely spend the next little while refining this trigger mechanism, but even if something comes up this is better than nothing.

It feels really weird to rely on an imperfect mechanism like this. I'm so used to taking the time to perfect my creations that this just feels sloppy and uncomfortable. This is going to bug me until I fix it, but fixing it is going to take time that I'm not sure I'll have. The enemy is constantly ramping up their assault against us, despite the offensive going on in the middle of their empire. I might have to take efforts to directly counter some new threat.

My paladins are getting really good at large scale magic, even managing to figure out some very effective methods for doing magic in a group. Something that the scholars have told me is pretty rare and only really seen with runic and verbal magic, two things that aren't seen often in this part of the world. I'm not sure why though, runic magic, from the sound of it, is just type of enchanting. And verbal magic, or using my magic by way of certain phrases or words, seems easy enough to teach someone. Musicians employ it all of the time, and great choirs of thousands of people can work some pretty amazing spells.

It seems like there are a lot of things that simply aren't common here, more than other places. I must have been born onto some kind of backwater continent no one really cared about until recently. It's kind of sad to think about really, though it would help explain why my father settled down here, he did tell me he wanted a quiet place to raise a family in peace.

My downtime today was mostly spent helping the scholars out with a couple problems that they didn't have the expertise to solve. Mostly identifying plants or healing injured scholars, they even had one scholar who somehow still had an unexploded bomb implanted inside of him from that incident a little while ago. How it hadn't gone off I have no idea, but it did seem misshapen.

Anyway, Good Night Diary.