"It's not really anything special, but we did have to make some staves to prove we knew the concept in the Cazirizahd. Funny story, I was actually just really annoyed at how serious my suitemates were taking it? But I was so annoyed with how seriously everyone in the towers took themselves. I kind of just smashed this together as an insult, but... well, it's the kind of insult an adversary with a graduate degree in magic creates. So it still works pretty well."

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Magic staves, as a concept, are usually representational-form constructions with pattern-drawing additions meant not to cast spells specifically but to stand as a physical thesis statement of intent and established proofs, allowing acadamages to cast spells more clearly and strongly by their presence. They are popular in some magical cultures where collecting lengthy tables of citations and references is considered gauche and unwieldy, to say nothing of difficult to reference easily in the heat of the moment.

Yhelm's magic staff is a thesis statement about delinquency, and serves as a cited reference of magic-as-style, empowering her magic when it's used in a way that would make Bad Boy proud, which is essentially the only time she bothers using magic anyway.