Chapter 23
Loki could not help but provoke the Elleth. In his defense, she was not really asking the proper questions. His magic was an integral part of his being, how powerful he was, well that was part of his innate nature. No matter how much he may despise what he was, he was still bound to nature in a way that other peoples just simply were not. In such a case, was it truly surprising that he should show magic potential? The Frost Giants were well known for being able to use magical artifacts, and it was known that magic sustained the lands. How was it all that surprising that he formed magic.
Though, when he thought about it, about his time on Asgard, stuck now in a land far from there, and relatively safe from the All-Father's influence, he realized just now why Odin was so reluctant for him to pursue magic. After all, Asgardians did not have a natural affinity towards magic, Frigga was not from Asgard, she was not even truly Asgardian, not by birth. It was the main reason nobody suspected him. While the Asgardian King had the ability to use the magic granted to him as King, that was all that they had, they did not have the same power flowing through their veins. Not like he did, like Frigga did. Everyone just assumed that he took more after the mother then the father, like Thor did.
Loki had ancient Magic curling through his veins. Of course it was powerful. He was the most powerful sorcerer in the nine realms, and as such, he lived up to his name. His magic was a part of him, integrally. He was essentially so connected to his magic that being cut off would be akin to killing him. It was powerful, as well. Very few managed to hold him, and those who tried, did not manage to end well in their attempts. Loki was difficult to contain. His magic was volatile, and it would protect him, it healed him, protected him, lashed out at those seen as threatening. His magic was governed my him, and so intimately a part of him that it ran off of him. His emotions definitely influenced his abilities.
Which was part of why his magic lashed at Aragorn earlier, and why Legolas managed to calm him. Aragorn, while perhaps he was not a threat, Loki had not really been in his right mind either, and he had never seen Legolas as a threat. He could feel Legolas, Haldir, the Elves in general had a similar connection to the magic of nature. Granted theirs was different, but it was better then Gandalf's poor understanding of it. Elvish magic was intertwined with the earth that they lived upon, this entire planet had vast surges of magic, hence why the Elves thrived so well. They took to these lands, because of the magic, not the other way around. Their natural selves needed magic to connect to, and in a planet that was rife with it, of course they would settle. Now, with the dark magics beginning to overrun, the Elves were running.
Of course this was understandable as well. Light Elves such as Galadrial, Haldir, Legolas, dark magic would make them want to run. They did not connect to dark magic. Natural magic was not innately dark. it was tainted. For a people so connected to nature, feeling the tainting of said nature would make them run. Elrond was too frightened to allow a majority of his elves to stay, he did not think. Loki understood that feeling, however.
However, in a similar way that the elves connected with the magic of the land they lived, Loki connected to Magic itself. It did not matter if it was pure or otherwise. Light, Dark, strong, few, his power was his connection to the arts. His natural affinity would have frightened the All-Father, of course, which was likely why he had hesitated in allowing him to pursue his arts. Not that Frigga would have allowed such a thing. For him to not be allowed to train his magic, that would have done far more harm then good, which was why Frigga had managed to convince the All-Father to allow her to pursue his training in the first place.
His magic was woven within the fabric of the universe itself. All sorts of magic he understood, he could use it all. His magic was not one form, and it was not one type, it was a combination of everything and it allowed him free reign. Something that Odin had, thankfully, never truly realized. He was powerful, not because of his ability to use magic, but because of his understanding of his magic.
It was why Gandalf was so pathetic. In all honesty, given the fact that he was a man, and men did not really have magic, not in the same way Elves and other creatures did, he could understand why it was that Gandalf had difficulties. He would, it was only expected. Despite his dislike of the man, he supposed that the fact that the elder man had strived so hard to overcome these barriers to connect to his innate magic so hard, even if it was just minimal, was admirable.
It was also why the Elves were feared by Men, and even still were. Part of it, sure, was the fact that they did not age past the likes of their 20s. In essence however, they were powerful. The human race was lucky that Light Elves tended to be kind and compassionate in nature. Otherwise they would have destroyed them long ago.
Yet, Loki had to question himself. After all, when he looked at Legolas, there was something distinctly...wild about the other. He did not really know what it was. Haldir and Legolas were both woodland elves, so why was it that Legolas seemed so much more...feral, in certain ways? Loki decided that he would have to ponder such things. Woodland Elves were different from the other elves, most certainly, but Loki had to wonder if perhaps the Woodland Prince's kin were far more different hten he was trying to let off.