User:Average/Magic
So, of course, magic doesn't exist (to muggles). This page is just for the purpose of a game.
Magic, it could be said, is the use of power outside the material universe. This is this mage's view of it. From this perspective, healers use magic and they just don't know it. Likewise, when the explorer uses the power she's accumulated through her travels via her spoken word, this is creates a type of charm. Fighters might be the only class that doesn't use it. In them, magic shows itself only within the body and it`s ability to heal or in the romance of love (a type of magic not covered here).
Thaumaturgy is magic used by mages. Except for elfs and druids, psionics (a different power) detract from this magic and should be shunned outside potioncraft and alchemy. For the sordid history that led to that arrangement, I refer you to the the history books. To protect the stability and utility of this power, there are guilds, typically specializing in one of more of the types of magic. In real life, one typically finds magic in the use of these three forms:
- ritual: building power with others, sometimes directly through various gods,
- regularity: continual, consistent use by everyone yields more results,
- personal power: the holding of power somatically by the body or chosen objects as a vessel for the Unknown, allowing the mage to command power from it.
Power is accumulated via the development of spellcraft and through virtuous use that earns you respect with the outer powers. Guilds sometimes battle with each other, stealing spellbooks and their power. If you are worthy, you can enter the guild of Merlin and learn more.
The game recognizes various categories of magic. See their pages for more.
Outside the magic user's intentions, the DM has to create secondary spell effects (using their own "mana") -- like the target's clothes catching on fire, etc.
Q: Is magic simply role-playing (soul manipulation) and trickery? For most magic, one puts on the cloak or air of what they wish to produce in the world, perhaps fooling the world itself to get it to produce the result (some pagan rituals, for example, use the fear of animals, to force the soul itself to provide, others use the power of a confident "aura" to trick lessor minds). As above so below, but as within, so without, and vice versa. This has been the use of magic in most circles (Wiccan, paganism, crowleyism).
A. No. Here, magic is a science -- a science that may transcend anything your world may know, but a science nonetheless. It is neither convenient results that emerge from confident styles, nor is it the power of mentalism that arises from luck within the soul. The magic for this school is a combination of disparate universes (that don't mind being at the service of impeccable users) and greater innocence to produce a solid whole. ...Of science, alchemy/naturism, history/magic_history, and intention/kinesthesiology, working together to produce results. You could call it holism. Love puts it together perfectly and coherently. One can best compare it to the magic that children make when they play make-believe. This is akin to the bonafide stage magic that stage magicians sometimes get from their captivated audience. Skepticism can of course, tear this fabric down, yet.... the fact remains of its existence. Most of what passes for magic is little more than what industrialism did for humanity: increased power with no wisdom. A disaster for the most part. The remaining residue of light itself, pulled out of the aethers, is the kind of resource that is available when the magician who created this universe let's go of their attention. This is the magic DMs and their players use, to enter imaginary universes.
Groomed rightly (or stolen for some nefarious purpose), it can be built into alternate realities. You are probably in one now.
Consider: millions of television sets and news programs keeping the audience in the same state of mind, like a trance. Millions of American Indians killed, still held in bondage for power. And then, consider the diversion: a needle at the doctor where the body and immune system has to let go of awareness for a moment. This also was performed at a mass scale for "immuniziations". It's considered a requirement for schools. It's still in you now, the inoculation, forming the scar tissue that hasn't healed on your body. And also consider the symbol of the caedecus. And, then, ask yourself: are you in a real universe or an altered state now?
Neither animals nor children get so enchanted into false universes such as these, for they have not the faculty of language needed to be led into elaborate lies (which, let it be noted, is a type of charm). Unless you are an elf, you will probably need to use language for your magic.
The lies of this world have charmed nearly everyone...
