Thread:Saris Khan/@comment-1493741-20140624210124/@comment-136273-20140906225852


 * 1) You learn a spell. It's a shortcut to employ a particular pre-determined technique, you memorise the incantation, number and name associated with the spell to help you successfully cast it a specific way each consecutive time.
 * 2) You learn to abandon the incantation. You know the feeling of the spell so well that you no longer need the incantation for it to maintain power.
 * 3) You learn to abandon the number. You know the feeling of the spell so well that you no longer need the number for it to maintain power.
 * 4) You learn to abandon the name. Eventually, you know the feeling of the spell so well that you no longer need to speak anything for it to maintain power.
 * 5) You start thinking outside the box. You realise you don't have to depend on pre-determined spells, you can create your own oneself.
 * 6) You realise you can invent your own ways of casting the spells. You try to mix them, cast two at the same time, launch one from another.
 * 7) You realise that the spells are normally "fire and forget", they cease to be "yours" once cast, like a pebble thrown at the enemy. You begin to make sure that they are stable, condensed. You realise that you may control them after the casting is done. That they may serve as a palpable extension of your will.
 * 8) You realise that at some point in the past someone had to actually come up with the idea of a spell. You realise that by this time you do not have to memorise endless verses to launch techniques. You do not have to memorise anything anymore. Spellcasting is your second nature. You want a spell to happen, it happens. In whatever shape or form you wish.

Seems you've missed a couple of intermediate steps. Millennia of studying and training traditional spells and ways of spellcasting, inventing custom spells and ways of spellcasting, attempts to maintain control over them, tampering with the flow of spiritual energy, then the enlightening realisation as a catalyst to combine all of those to achieve the gestalt: Transcendent Kidou.