Artes use fonons, elementally aligned energy particles. There's a couple of types of artes.

[The basics of them. Maybe fonons are unique to Auldrant, with how the planet was formed. Wouldn't surprise him, at this point. Things are too weird, Sync is already starting to reform his ideas of what should and shouldn't be]

Had a lot of unfortunate experience with it?

[Don't mind him, he's going to examine the dogs while they talk. He's curious to see if there's any real change to them or if their mutations were entirely magic instability]