Memories of the Staff

This spell is a part of the Lost Memories spell chain and is found in the Lost Memories rune stone.

The staff is the knowledge the praeteriamancer finds most familiar and most strange simultaneously. Familiar because it is magical knowledge - the runic mage's craft, the careful study of runic elements and their application, the patient accumulation of spells and the understanding of how to use them - and the praeteriamancer is, after all, a practitioner of magic themselves. Strange because it is someone else's magic, a different affinity, a different relationship with the runic soul, approached from an angle that their own training never took.

Memory holds the mage's knowledge with the thoroughness it brings to everything. The praeteriamancer reaches through it and finds all runic mage skills available, borrowed completely, functional in every detail, belonging to no one currently alive but preserved by Memory for exactly this kind of asking. For the duration the praeteriamancer has access to capabilities that their own element never provided. Not only do they now have skills they have yet to obtain from their runic mage profession, they now also have the spells of a different affinity.  A different kind of magic accessible through someone else's memory of it. They have the spells of a posteramancer along with all the skills of a fully developed runic mage. When the spell ends Memory reclaims what was borrowed, and the praeteriamancer returns to the affinity they know - carrying, perhaps, a new understanding of what it means to have spent a day being someone else entirely.