[Formari. It's a term that rings a distant bell, one his father had used at some point. Augh, but he never paid much attention to his conversations about magic and the Circle. That had been more for his sisters than himself, anyway.]

So they found a bunch of weird crystals in a hold that I understand was abandoned for ages. [Right. He's been on enough (mis)adventures with his sister to know how well that goes.] Of course they used them before fully understanding them. Why wouldn't they?