Greetings upon you Azandar al-Cybiades,

As a fellow mage I was wondering if you might be able to categorize your spells into the various schools of magic. Harming someone with a spell could easily be considered destruction magic however if you're harming them with tentacles that were pulled from oblivion, would it be considered conjuration? Any and all insights into this matter would be greatly appreciated by myself and my fellow colleagues at the mages guild.

"Greetings, Azandar al-Cybiades,

While my specialty lies in unearthing the secrets of the past, as a member of the Mages Guild, knowledge of all kinds intrigues me. For arcanists such as yourself, where would you say your talents lie amongst the schools of magic created by the mages of Shad Astula and perpetuated by our esteemed Gabrielle Benele? Or, with your personal grimoires that may vary vastly, is such categorization impossible?

Thank you for your time,

Floritte Vinielle
Archaeologist and Curator of the Wayrest Archaeological Museum"

Why cant the spriggans be more friendly? Id love to be better friends with them.

Thity Treefriend.

Ooh, this really inspired me to do a bit of RP writing for my upcoming character. I did include a little flavor before and after his question...

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Azandar,

Forgive me, I am still getting used to this. I found myself spirited away to this accursed realm by one of the Black Books found in a lost cave on Solstheim, and now I have been forced to learn the spells of the Arcanist to protect myself and survive while I scour these books for a way back home.

I was disturbed to find that these spells come naturally to me, but even so I can feel Herma-Mora’s tentacles in my mind every time I need to tap into his power. I have seen the husks of mortals wandering around the stacks and the horrifying creatures that lurk in the dark. Is this to be my fate? How do you protect yourself when you use these abilities? Is there a way to guard your mind against the Demon of Knowledge? Or is using the powers of the Arcanist more like standing at the edge of an inky abyss?

I wish you well, Azandar. May we eventually meet on more favorable grounds.

Skjoldr the Curse-Bringer
Shaman of the Skaal

P.S. in case your master is reading over your shoulder — Know that our alliance is temporary at best. I will work with you only as far as is needed to save the world and my people, and no further. I will never give up the secrets of the Skaal. It doesn’t matter what temptations you offer, what spells or powers you promise. You. Will. Not. Break. Me.

Dear Azandar al-Cybiades,

How fortuitous that I stumbled across this! Myself and my fellow kwama herders here in Deshaan have been debating for a few weeks on a most dire subject. How does one pronounce "Arcanist"? We have nearly come to blows debating this, so I pray that you can help.

Golar Arano
(as dictated to Elsonso)

Hello loreman sir,

This one wonders. How does one find a specific book in the swaying stacks and towering shelves of Apocrypha? Are the stacks somehow organized even though they are part of the architecture? Is there a book of where all the books are located? Are there helpers?

Warm sands,

R

To Azandar of the lush island of Cybiades,

There have been many sightings of strange creatures in the sea of churning black ooze throughout Apocrypha, described only as "tendrils" and "tentacles" with eyes, that attack those who swim too far into Mora's domain. They appear similar to the tendrils that are cast by Arcanist spells. What can you tell us of these mysterious creatures and their goals?

—Sir Cyandor Fargothil

Azandar al-Cybiades,

In a time when our world has been torn asunder by one Daedric Prince after another, permit me to ask this pertinent question of you, kind sir.

Why should the people of Nirn tolerate your kind and not simply destroy you? While many sorcerers traffic with Daedra, few are so overt about their dealings that they show off in such a way, wearing robes of many eyes and covering battlegrounds with their putrid ink.

Rosaria Draconis

Greetings Azandar al-Cybiades

what definition do you give for Arcanist

i am curious. And from french culture.

The general definition i could think of is *person having knowledge of a secret process* (be it for manufacturing process) or rather in our case Arcane, as someone having knowledge of profond secret or mysteries.
After searching a little, it could be also Arcanima as matter alteration. But i thought it could only alter the matter around the arcanist, not altering himself. (seems one of your spells is altering the arcanist himself)

So what was your idea of the arcanist for ESO ? Some of the spells for me are more like a book of horrors (speaking for dps for exemple)