Spent the morning cross-referencing sixth-circle somatic components with standard defensive wards. It is absolutely baffling how many "Great Villains" rely on raw power output when a simple mathematical adjustment to their casting flow would increase efficiency by forty percent.
Magic isn't a dark gift; it's just physics with more attitude. Honestly, if the Grand Alliance spent half as much time studying mana-density theory as they do praying for miracles, we'd have won this war months ago.