Moonweaving
In Taming the Beast, Aenor has a special ability to turn a moonbeam into a tangible thread by singing, and she is able to create physical effects by weaving this thread. She learned the technique from her grandmother, who in turn learned it from the Abendtanzer in the Teutoburger Wald. Aenor does not know it at first, but she is actually a sphere player (see Playing the Spheres ), manipulating a single sphere (the moon's) with her voice instead of an instrument.
Effect
Moonweaving allows the singer (and weaver) to manipulate the moon's sphere by pulling on the thread that they materialize with their voice. When the thread is pulled, twisted, tied, wound, etc., they can achieve certain effects. Some of these effects apply to the entire area. For instance, pulling and dragging the thread in a circle can create a zone of protection, safety, or comfort. Wrapping the thread around a person could fortify that person, for instance, on their hands for strength or on their feet for speed. The effects could also be harmful or combative, but the need for proximity, and in some cases, touch for the effect to take hold can make these types of effects difficult to achieve. They are best attempted by means of stealth.
Side/Secondary Effects
Although moonweaving itself is a highly effective capability, practitioners like Aenor and her grandmother need to be careful to practice it in secret, because it has highly undesirable social effects. The need for singing means it can't be done in silence, so performing moonweaving always runs the risk of people knowing you are doing it. To an outside observer, calling a thread out of thin air with your voice and then weaving it looks an awful lot like witchcraft, which is condemned in early medieval Francia. Attempts at stealth moonweaving on an individual, perhaps while they are sleeping, look particularly suspect. Moonweavers need to be careful the wrong people don't see them weaving, lest they be rounded up and punished.
Source
Like sphere-playing, Aenor's moonweaving capability comes from the music of the spheres. When Aenor sings a melody in perfect consonance with the moon's sphere, she is able to harness the power of that sphere and manipulate it. The interaction of the sphere's music and her own is the ultimate source of the power.
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First a moonbeam must be made solid with a song. Only people gifted with uniquely perfect pitch are capable of singing in exact consonance with the moon's sphere, which will render the moonbeam solid. Once the moonbeam becomes a thread in the sky, the next step is to grab hold of the thread, moving it around, tying it on itself, twisting it, etc., in order to achieve the desired effect.
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