Board Thread:What Would You Do?/@comment-34263048-20181207162014/@comment-36855838-20181208180954

LorialetDreamer wrote:

Also, if he is a slave, how did he know magic spell? And a Dark Elf would have WAY more magic power than a random slave who shouldn't even know how to read...

Okay, so I'm stretching it a bit with note-taking but this is based on the style of spellcasting in the Dark Souls series, there are both normal spells, or "sorceries" and there are tales of miraculous events passed down directly from the gods, or "miracles"

Having faith and reciting the tale verbatim grants a miraculous effect, if there's no tale, you can't perform it. If you botch the recital, you get weaker or different effects.

For a clearer explanation: []

This type of casting holds no requirements for intelligence.