This was what Solam had been holed up in the Grand Library working out these past few days. Of course, he had not actually figured it all out by himself. He had a ready-made teacher: Violette.
As the final inheritor of Arcane One, the tower spirit of Ocasuan, Violette possessed all knowledge of Netheril—or rather, all the knowledge Arcane One had been able to acquire. When it came to arcane knowledge, Violette understood nearly all of it.
With such an excellent teacher, Solam found learning the arcane arts far from difficult. On top of that, Queen Laeral Silverhand, a supreme spellcaster, was nearby for him to consult, so Solam's reclassing progressed quite quickly.
That was right—Solam intended to become a true Arcane Knight.
Strictly speaking, Solam's previous status as an Arcane Knight had been counterfeit. He did not know arcane arts at all, and his understanding of them had merely been superficial. After the fall of Netheril, the Arcane Knight profession, originally created by High Arcanists based on the arcane system, had undergone enormous changes. After all, this was now the age of Weave-based spellcasting. To adapt to the changing times, Solam's Arcane Knight predecessors could only change direction, abandoning the original arcane system and conforming to the Weave spellcasting system.
The greatest drawback of doing so was the steady decline in the Arcane Knights' combat power. It could not be helped. Arcane Knights had once cast spells through arcs, and their combat style relied on the combination of arcane spellcasting and knightly prowess. It had been a complete and systematic inheritance. But later, it had been forcibly changed into Weave spellcasting, causing the Arcane Knights' unique arcane system to collapse completely. Many arcane spells that could be freely combined with Arcane Knight combat were also lost forever.
This had