uesp:“I will teach you a powerful spell for breathing water, but you must become a master of
uesp: “I will teach you a powerful spell for breathing water, but you must become a master of it. As with all spells and all skills, the more you practice, the better you get. Even that ain’t enough. To achieve true mastery, you must understand what it is you’re doing. It ain’t simply enough to perform a perfect thrust of a blade – you must also know what you are doing and why.”“That’s common sense.”“Yes, it is, but the spells of Alteration are all about uncommon sense. The infinite possibilities, breaking the sky, swallowing space, dancing with time, setting ice on fire, believing that the unreal may become real. You must learn the rules of the cosmos and then break them.”–Excerpt from Breathing Water Image is a Tome of Alteration. -- source link