Lydia Hastings

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Lydia Hastings
Aliases	Lydia Scryer
Titles	Court Sorceress, Major, The Cryptographer
Items	Edon's Ring, Venlyra, Venora, En-Vamir
Species	Human
Continent	Mythralis
World	Venaya
Featured In	War of Broken Mirrors
Dominion Sorcery:	Knowledge Protection Dream Sight Travel Wind

Lydia Hastings is a Point-of-View character in the War of Broken Mirrors series.

Relations

Friends and Associates

Keras Selyrian

Jonan Kestrian

Aladir Ta'thyriel

Velas Jaldin

Erik Tarren

Blake Hartigan

Magic

Abilities

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.

Aura Detection

Lydia has a spell which indicates anything with a detectable sorcerous aura.

Tracking and Identification

Lydia has spells for tracking and identification spells for spells and sorcerers.

Revealing

Lydia has a spell that lets her find hidden things.

Dominion of Protection

The Dominion of Protection is one of the Dominions Lydia routinely uses. Overuse of this Dominion causes Lydia to become easily injured. The Dominion of Protection helps bone and skin growth. Lydia can sense protection sorcery.

Protective Barrier

Protective Barrier is an invisible barrier spell that surrounds the body. One of the base components of the Comprehensive Barrier.

Comprehensive Barrier

Comprehensive Barrier is an invisible barrier spell that surrounds Lydia's body. The spell is keyed to a knowledge spell invented by Edon, Intuitive Comprehension. The Comprehensive Barrier protects her from damage and teaches her about spells that contact the barrier. This helps her learn to cast spells from new dominions.

Sphere of Exclusion

Lydia mentioned being able to cast a Sphere of Exclusion spell. A Sphere of Exclusion is a high-end protection sorcery designed for inhospitable areas.

Key

Lydia can form a temporary key for locked doors using protection sorcery.

Barrier Reinforcement

Lydia can reinforce magical barriers.

Barrier Reshaping

Lydia has demonstrated the ability to reshape the barrier around the Blighted Woods, formed by the goddess Karasalia, to make a temporary gap.

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