Ash only spent a short while dozing in Sidus' lap, enjoying his warmth before she woke and asked in a sleepy voice, "Where would you like me to start planting?"
He smiled slightly, grateful again for her consideration, "The island will look most beautiful," he kept quiet about the fact that there would likely be a small surprise when she cast the growth spell. Her grove, too, harbored a surprise but the plant had chosen to bloom on its own power when asked by her Star Ash. He held mixed feelings for it, but also held onto the hope that it would be a welcome addition as all the other plants before it had been.
His gentle eyes grazed over the island, bare as it was, and he enjoyed the thought of being surrounded once more by the plants belonging to the other gods. Once, all of his temples had been lush with plant life but over time it had changed. His duties kept him busy and, as worshipers often did, they made assumptions as to why he didn't visit as often as he once had. Those assumptions had eventually turned to the beautiful but admittedly wild plants that grew around his ponds. As he'd been able to make time to visit after their removal, he'd inadvertently cemented the belief that he preferred them with nothing more than the natural grass.
Ash stood and moved about, placing the remaining seeds with great care though she knew they wouldn't be nearly enough for the large pond or even the small island at its center. Eventually she stepped back a bit and prepared her spell though she was immediately interrupted by Sidus.
"A moment, Ashterra," he said as he held out a book, "Prudentia and Silva sent me this a bit earlier, saying it was the completed version of the spell you wove."
Ash took hold of the grimoire and read through it swiftly, finding the spell was made a bit more complex by the inclusion of two new words, sense and thought. It made it to where the spell first sensed the desires of the plant in its use before targeting only those that approved. It also gave her two new very powerful words to play with in her magic.
"You cannot use your Starborn spell for weaving," his voice grumbled in an admonishing tone as if seeing her thinking about all of her options for magic use, "Its words do not belong to this world."
Her gentle pink eyes looked to him, a bit of shock in them as she no doubt realized that with the right words she could in fact reweave the spell to function in Terra. It would just take exposure to the correct base spells and, if she was being honest, she was already halfway towards building at least a basic form of it. She needed the ability to identify specifically corruption, a spell she knew existed because it was used to find out of the way dungeons in order to prevent breaks, as well as words to isolate it. She was also missing the most important word in the vocabulary of the world around her for her purification magic, that of purify itself.
While her massive purification spell was not a necessity in Fantastoria, she had no doubt the ability to target and purify corrupt magic would be useful. It would protect her from monsters like the reapers, an attack that could keep their magic away from her. With a bit of a long-term knowledge goal in mind, she gave a gentle nod of acknowledgement for Sidus' wisdom.
Reading the various grimoires instead of just using the shortcut to learn the knowledge within also gave her some insight into how the magic of the world worked, reinforcing her idea that it was much the same as her own world but in a written form instead of conceptual. On Terra, she merely had to think of the effect she wanted a spell to have in order to be able to cast it.
It was an ability most magic users had though most also weren't aware of it because magic was granted by the divine and the divine put limitations in order to keep people from being able to be too destructive with their spells. It wouldn't do, after all, to have someone running around raining meteors down upon the earth any time they were inconvenienced in the slightest not that most people had the magic stores to manage such a massive feat anyways.
Curious, she frowned ever so slightly at Sidus and asked a question she hoped he would be able to answer, "Do magical weaknesses work the same here as they do in Terra?"
He nodded slightly, "With monsters, they are each weak to one or two specific elements and our elements are seen as being in opposition. Light and darkness, mine and Umbra's domains, are in opposition when corrupted. The same goes for water and earth, Aquas' and Petras' domains and fire and wind belonging to Mineralis and Silva. Even the other magics follow the same rules, meaning that spells of Virtus and Artificia are in opposition to each other as are spells of Venatio and Prudentia. Lucrum's spells will eventually find their foil as well when that Divine joins our pantheon."
Outside of combat against corruption, though, the spells of the gods were never in opposition to each other and could often be used together for greater, if different, effect. Knowledge that everything truly was as she was used to could help her weave even more spells because it removed the artificial limitation she'd put down when first thinking of Fantastoria as a game world with game rules. The elements and concepts of the gods only struggled against each other when corruption was involved.
Her lips tilted down into a slight scowl as she remembered something from her cleansing, "You said corruption cannot kill you…but it can hurt you, can't it?"
Sidus beckoned her close, checking over her magic if only to settle himself as the idea of her being corrupted, even briefly, hurt him deeply. He wanted to stave off the answer to her question for a moment and so spent a little bit in silence as he contemplated how to do so.