OCKissWeek26 - Impulse
Lore dump below the cut ₊⊹⁀➴
Timeskipping over 20 years, Lyhil maintains regular levels of magic but its a difficult balance to strike. This particular prompt I'm using as a vague exploration on what would happen to him if he couldn't keep that balance in check anymore. I'm not personally a fan of it resulting in a "god mode" all powerful form, and rather think the additional magic would poison him. So instead I'm focusing on the thought of it accelerating the growth of his body & plant features. Vines grow long and thicker, weighing down his body. The Bloom cycle of his flowers begins anew and they become fertile but begin to poison him (re: Cornflowers are a self-incompatible flower and self pollination, even by accident, declines their health). And of course, his already tall body grows even more, a towering giant of vines, flowers and crackling magic.
My personal headcannon is that Sylvari absorb and process the wild magic of Tyria into an energy that sustains their animation through what would normally be the kidney in a human. Since the Pale Tree created Sylvari based on humans I like to think there's organs in there that don't work the same way so I refurbished the kidney into a magic filtering system instead.
When it comes to Lyhil, he had low functionality when emerging from the pod and struggled immensely with maintaining energy, let alone any sort of magics for combat. This spurred him to pursuing work in the Priory and developing research into Sylvari bodies, their functionality and compatibility between plant and Sylvari. Waves my hand over the Priory arc, eventually it leads to his ambition growing too great and he journeys to the Inquest, alongside his dear heart, to undergo self experimentation - A naive decision that costs him everything as the Inquest realise they can harvest parts of his dearheart and build a Sylvari out of Lyhil with accelerated magic production, a force they could harness for their own purposes.
Eventually, Lyhil escapes with the broken, still body of Kynan and finds himself in a body unfamiliar with change that, true to the Inquest's intent, produces far more magic than he knows how to use.
