[Relieved to change the subject, Inessa sips her tea and goes through her notes.]
Reports from healers are essentially as such: the shard is a slash a couple of inches long around the palm of the hand and less than a fourth of an inch wide. If someone touches the anchor, it feels the same as any other skin on the bearer's hand, though the bearers themselves have reported that the flesh occupied by the shard is now relatively numb and they cannot feel someone pressing on it. It's solid; one cannot stick a finger or anything else through it. It's still a part of the hand, only now suffused with magic. Usually, there is little more than a faint glow, but that light can become brilliant when near an active rift or using shard abilities.
As for pain, the shards only seem to ache upon specific circumstances. If one is open or opening nearby, or in a place where the Veil is weak or unstable, the shard will be active and thus cause their bearers discomfort. This can also happen when overexerting in the effort to close a rift or overusing anchor abilities, or if a large amount of lyrium is ingested. Rifters have also reported that it ached when they first emerged from a rift, and there is initial pain for natives who acquire one. In all instances, the pain will begin as a dull ache and ramp up based on the severity/duration of the situation, and will ease off again once the situation causing the pain ends.
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[Relieved to change the subject, Inessa sips her tea and goes through her notes.]
Reports from healers are essentially as such: the shard is a slash a couple of inches long around the palm of the hand and less than a fourth of an inch wide. If someone touches the anchor, it feels the same as any other skin on the bearer's hand, though the bearers themselves have reported that the flesh occupied by the shard is now relatively numb and they cannot feel someone pressing on it. It's solid; one cannot stick a finger or anything else through it. It's still a part of the hand, only now suffused with magic. Usually, there is little more than a faint glow, but that light can become brilliant when near an active rift or using shard abilities.
As for pain, the shards only seem to ache upon specific circumstances. If one is open or opening nearby, or in a place where the Veil is weak or unstable, the shard will be active and thus cause their bearers discomfort. This can also happen when overexerting in the effort to close a rift or overusing anchor abilities, or if a large amount of lyrium is ingested. Rifters have also reported that it ached when they first emerged from a rift, and there is initial pain for natives who acquire one. In all instances, the pain will begin as a dull ache and ramp up based on the severity/duration of the situation, and will ease off again once the situation causing the pain ends.