Childhood is a time of true happiness and missed opportunities. Why missed? Do many children think about how quickly they learn information? What excellent foundations for further physical development can be laid during this wonderful period? For example, body flexibility.
It seems, well, flexibility, so what? But no, back in my middle life at the age of 20, I noticed that I was no longer as flexible as before... Well, not as flexible, a great loss. But no. It's not just flexibility. For example memory. Over time, it deteriorates, as does flexibility. And much more.
But all you have to do is dedicate half an hour of your life to developing your body and mind since childhood and you can reap the benefits. The mind works better and better, the body feels better and is easier to control by the mind.
Just half an hour a day and these are the results. And that's just the body. Yes, there is an exception. For example, for children who are predisposed to obesity, this is more difficult for them. Where does this predisposition come from? The answer is simple. From ancestors. And this has been proven. A common mutation in genes that is preserved and transmitted.
If anyone didn't know, there are three types of muscle fibers in the human body: white, red and pink.
White are, so to speak, "hardy" muscles. They do not stand out for their strength, but only for their endurance. That is, the owner of such muscles will be very durable, but at the same time weak. They consume little energy.
Reds, unlike whites, are "strong" on the contrary. In one unit of time they can produce a result that White will never be able to produce. However, as soon as they are given this result, they are immediately incapacitated. They need rest. They consume enormous amounts of energy.
Well, pink muscles. This is the standard, so to speak. They combine the advantages of previous types, and the disadvantages overlap. For example, they are durable and strong at the same time, that is, they have both the explosive potential of red muscles and the endurance of white muscles. Yes, they are not as strong as red ones, but they can remain in "working" condition longer, much longer, but not as long as white ones, which is logical.
A perfect example of pink muscle is the heart. It's just a perfect organ. It works better than some engines, consumes a minimum of "fuel", and produces maximum efficiency in the exhaust. (efficiency coefficient, that is, consume as little as possible and produce as much as possible).
From the above fabulous, you can ask a question. Why the hell am I saying this? Oh believe me there is a reason.
It probably started on my third birthday. After talking with my parents, I received a lot of information to think about.
Well, first of all, Lord Black. From Sarah and Tom's story, he's not the nicest guy. A typical aristocrat and adherent of blood purity. Based on their conversation with Tom, we can say that he does not like Muggles, but is not their hater. Perhaps after he revealed Voldemort's secret, he decided to learn more about ordinary people? May be. For now, I can only guess how a Lord like him grew up in a family of ardent Muggle-haters. Or maybe he found out about genetics? Well, or someone enlightened him.
I wouldn't be surprised if his future wife is from abroad. After all, in England all aristocratic families are relatives. And I know examples from history that show what marriage between close relatives leads to.
The list is quite long: diseases, poor blood clotting, various external deformities, mutations and, finally, a shortened life span. And if you remember that the magicians still have a mountain of curses behind them, then it's scary to imagine what this could lead to.
Secondly, the knowledge that I am gained. Honestly, I was pleased with this. Yes, I don't have an inheritance, and I don't have a whole mountain of relatives who can either help or stab a dagger in the back. But I'm a blank slate. All roads of life are open to me. Yes, after reading the books provided by the Lord, namely etiquette and rituals, I became aware of the Gifts. Yes, the real gifts.
These gifts are passed on from generation to generation. It's the same as with the body that I described earlier, only if the predisposition to mental and physical development is inherent in genes, then the predisposition to the development of magic is inherent in both genes and the magic of the Family. Now there may be questions, so let's start from the beginning.
There are sources of mana in the world. These sources are different. Natural, artificially created and so-called failures or passages to other planes. The first option, that is, natural sources are those that themselves formed on our planet. No one knows exactly how they are formed. Just at one moment a source of mana appears. There are various theories, the most popular is the one I read. The point is that natural sources of mana are not fully formed failures into other planes. Nobody knows how and why they were not formed.
Artificially created. Nobody knows how to create such sources; over time, knowledge about creating such sources has disappeared. Perhaps these are failures in the plans discovered by the magicians themselves. Who knows? Perhaps in the future I will find out.
Well, the third option. Dips or passages to other planes. As it was written, in parallel with our world, there is an infinite number of plans. They come into contact with our world or, in another way, the real world. So, in places of contact, stable failures in these plans arise. And from these failures, mana of the color that the plan is comes into the real world. For example, in Africa a passage to the fiery plane is open. That's why nothing grows there. Another striking example is the Amazon forests. There is a gap in the life plan.
And there are a lot of such places on earth. And all of them are hidden behind a veil from ordinary people. Veil. Back in Merlin's time, magicians faced a problem. Failures in plans greatly affect the world around us. And their influence is so great that the very area in which they are located is gradually increasing its area. And therefore, to prevent their further growth, the magicians of that time came up with the veil ritual. Its meaning is to isolate such places from the real world. And only the echoes of these places will continue to influence the real world.
As I said, examples are the deserts of Africa, the forests of the Amazon, the endless wastelands of the North and South Poles, as well as Atlantis. Yes, that same Atlantis. A gap in the water plan arose on its territory. That's why she sank.
The list of such places can go on forever. In fact, the earth is much larger than it seems. It's just that many places were hidden so thoroughly that even the continents are completely hidden. The exact size of the earth and the number of continents were not described. It just says that there are many more of them.
Because of the veil, ordinary people do not notice these places. They just don't see them. And the technologies they created do not distinguish between mana. And not when they can't, since mana is energy of a different order. For a technique to work in a mana-rich place, you need to create it using mana and mana-saturated materials. And this is a very labor-intensive process. True, it was not described in the books. Yes, and I learned this from the section devoted to the praise of magicians and their elevation above ordinary magicians.
After reading this, I got the impression that ordinary people for magicians are something like a farm for the production of new magicians, like me, who have been found.
Of course, all this will still need to be checked, since blind faith is not what I need.