Editing Lydia Hastings (section)

==== Dominion of Knowledge ====
The Dominion of Knowledge is one of the Dominions Lydia routinely uses. Overuse of this Dominion causes Lydia to lose memories. The Dominion of Knowledge helps improve memory. Most of Lydia's identification spells appear as text in her mind.

'''Structural Analysis'''

Lydia has a structural analysis spell which gives her images of the structure she analyses. She uses the chant "Dominion of Knowledge, show me the structure within."

'''Aura Detection'''

Lydia has a spell which indicates anything with a detectable sorcerous aura. "Dominion of Knowledge, illuminate your sources."

'''Tracking and Identification'''

Lydia has spells for tracking and identification spells for spells and sorcerers. She can track people based on essence with this chant "Dominion of Knowledge, show me the path to the creature who shares essence with this orb." Lydia can identify the dominions a person can use with the chant: "Dominion of Knowledge, I invoke you."

'''Revealing'''

Lydia has a spell that lets her find hidden things. The spell helps her find invisible things. The chant Lydia uses is: "Dominion of Knowledge, illuminate the hidden."

'''Essence Measuring'''

Lydia has spells to measure the flow of essence within a body. The spell shows her lines of differing colours for the dominions in a body with brighter lines showing if that line's dominion is used more frequently. Lydia uses the chant "Dominion of Knowledge, measure the flow of essence within his body."

'''Sae'kes Essence Measuring'''

Lydia developed a spell, specifically for measuring the rate of the flow of essence from Taelien into the Sae'kes. Lydia had to develop the spell because most spells on the Sae'kes fail. The chant Lydia uses is: "Dominion of Knowledge, measure the rate of essence flow into the Sae’kes."

'''Time Detecting'''

Lydia has a spell to determine the time of day. She uses the chant "Identify Local Time of Day."

'''Detect Illusions'''

Lydia has a 'detect illusions' spell for which she uses the chant "Dominion of Knowledge, illuminate all illusion effects." The spell reveals illusionary effects.

'''Mental Connection'''

Lydia has a spell that links her mind to another's. She uses the chant "Dominion of Knowledge, link our minds." This allowed Lydia to speak with another in a combined mental realm.