Posted on December 8th 2021.
The Gifts of Darkness - Chapter 15 - Page 18
Is this the first outright mention of word magic in the comic? Either case, there is more than one way to approach magic, and Val's shape magic is only one of them. Word magic includes things like spellwords, chanting, that kind of stuff. But Val is not really interested in that, so he doesn't practice it, so he doesn't teach it.