Hm, 'shape'. Very similar to the language used in wizarding classes, but...either there isn't a tactile sixth sense with invoking as there is in wizardry, or he hasn't developed it yet. There is a sense used to feel your own magical energy when preparing spells – sight is the most common metaphor, followed by touch. But with that, you manipulate the energies directly with your hands. He can feel the sense of Echo's presence, but he's not sure whether that's distinct from the sensation of the invocation itself – or whether they are one and the same. He remembers the meditation exercises he had to do as a novice, but that probably only has partial applicability to this situation.
He really needs to talk to Bishop. She'll appreciate all this data. He takes out his tablet. Oh, right, you need to set it up. He's not sure he has the time for that, so he'll just write down the immediate revelations Echo gave him on the loose paper with his schedule on it so he doesn't forget.
...how does he signal that he can take more damage than a commoner? He can jump off a six story building and still be well enough to fight – though obviously he'll be hurt. But he's not going to gainsay his wind, who is also obviously much Wiser and more Intelligent than him.
He's not sure whether he wants to change the words (but not effect) of his invocation, although certainly putting the vocative phrase at the beginning is more convenient grammatically.
He really needs to talk to Bishop.
Now that he's here, he might as well write down things he wants to ask her later, or do with his conversation with her:
- great war? dalmercia lost nobility in war
- status of recognizants legally and culturally in dalmercia?
- ask about dalmercian wind religion
- how to develop invocation
- talk about current invocation effects and examples and lord echo revelations (not secret invocation divination yet)
- how do you request a new invocation
- arrange meeting with 'net' people who worship lord echo
- learning inscriptions
- ask for more examples of echoic inscribed objects
- what is the process of inscription actually like
- learning rituals
- learning echoic rituals
- how is ritual casting like
- ask about mimkhuun echoic ritual to remove voice
- mimkhu'ish – also ask about geopolitical situation post great war
- does bishop have non-echoic research contacts (must figure out whether to tell her about secret invocation divination)
- bavel's inscription is poetic and chorismic
- tell bishop about golarion wizardry? think on question further
- ask for job at research facility
- how much will i be paid
- can you tell the wind to be more generous with revelations – i can handle god vision headaches
- ask where to stay at (can i stay at the research facility? very inconvenient to have to take the shuttle every day – more training needed if i want to go running to town and there regularly)