Templars don't usually need to know a great deal about the details of how magic works in order to counter it, and neither the Gallows nor the Ansburg Circle had been big on innovative utility magic in any case--the most interesting thing to come out of the latter in decades had been a lengthy treatise on potential magical causes of sock disappearance in the laundry. Simon raises his eyebrows with unabashed interest as the oil materializes. He's never seen that particular spell in use.

"How are you doing that?" he asks. "I mean, yes, magic, ha ha, but--can you really just conjure that up whenever you like? However much you need?"