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r/teslore • … • u/DrogoMontague

Does each culture possess their own form of tonal magic?

Though practices vary greatly, each race seems to possess at least some knowledge of magic from each school, but I’m curious as to whether this extends to knowledge of what could be deemed tonal manipulation. The Dwemer were obviously the most advanced practitioners of the art, but there seem to be examples of seemingly similar practices which developed independently among other races. The Nords have the thu’um, the Dunmer as a whole may not but at least the Tribunal and certainly the Sixth House make use of tonal manipulation, the Bosmer have their spinners, the Nibenese have their ancestor moths, the Tsaesci have kiai, there just had to have been an Altmeri Psijjic who studied tonal magic, and I’m convinced that the reasons Yokudans call it sword-singing isn’t purely metaphorical. I’m missing a few of the races and am wondering if there are sources that describe practices that could be interpreted as a form of tonal magic.

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