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    Quote Originally Posted by Warlyx View Post
    its lots of time doing nothing but handsigns. we still dont know how it works :/
    The video clearly shows spells that take 1 mudra, 2 mudras and 3 mudras. The spell made with 3 mudras only took about 3 seconds in total. Primary spells (Fire, Stone, Ruin, Cure) all have about that cast time so I'm guessing that's what they were balanced against.

    As a Ninjutsu spell can be cast with only 1 mudra and there are 4 (possibly 5) mudras shown I'm guessing 4 of the 5 (or maybe all 5) job abilities learned will be mudras. The first Ninja quest you do could let you cast beginner's Ninjutsu with just one mudra. The next quest could give you a mudra so now you have 4 potential combinations for intermediate spells. Each quest you do could teach a new mudra leading up to bigger and flashier spells cast when you combine certain ones together. Of course some combinations will fail to produce a spell as well. Yoshi did say that mudras will be both attack spells and support spells. For instance the one that creates a swirling quicksand may root enemies in place or be similar to Sacred Soil.

    From the video we're shown 4 mudra. I'll just call these (in order of appearance) 1, 2, 3, 4.

    1: Giant exploding shurikan thrown.
    2+3: Bolt of lightning.
    Unknown combination: Ice.
    2+2: Fire.
    Uknown combination: Earth swirl.
    1+4+2: Tornado thing.
    2+2+2: Water spout.

    Edit: I'm having trouble deciphering the kanji used in the spells. They appear to be highly stylized kanji, some looking more like Mongolian or Tibetan than Japanese. Spell 2 for instance looks like a highly stylized version of 巾 meaning "Width" or sometimes "Breadth" and sort of makes sense in the spell lines. 3 巾's lead to a giant water spout. 1 巾 at the end of a string made a tornado. 2 巾's made a swirling fire. The lightning bolt kind of throws me off with its inclusion of 巾 but it may make sense if I could decipher the "3" mudra.

    Edit2: 3 could be a stylized version of 老 meaning "old/aged." Being used in a lightning spell with Ramuh being an old man perhaps makes sense?

    Edit3: 1 looks like it could possibly be a stylized version of 决 meaning "decisive."

    Edit4: 4 is really hard to tell. So far it looks like it could be a stylized version of 赳 which I'm unsure of a Japanese meaning for. It's also a Han character meaning "grand/valiant" which does make a bit of sense for a tornado. Still looking into this one.
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    Last edited by MartaDemireux; 07-22-2014 at 03:46 AM.