Alistar also tended to direct basic combustion spells with movements of his hands, though his tweaking of the candle lighting spell wasn't something he felt he should share with his teacher. Mr. Albeck had been very stubborn about their curriculum and insisted that they not stray from the simple, everyday magics that were prevalent throughout society, promising to move on to more advanced material once Alistar was older. Countless of these simple spells existed, which made Alistar anxious about whether he would ever get to learn more advanced magic in the year and a half that he had left before he planned to return to Crystellum.