text; un: alucard

[reposing]

This may be too broad of a question to ask, but I've been curious at any rate. I'd like to ask about what your interpretation of "magic" is, and the basic rules of it should it have any or even limitations.

From my understanding based on my own world, there are some limitations, but magic is capable of much in talented hands.

I suppose that also begs the question of what exactly chroma can be used for, as it is in its essence not quite the typical energy source, yet capable of mild magic on its own.

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un: fox🦊

[foxable]

oh boy oh boy oh boy i could literally write a treatise on this subject here we go

magic as far as it works in my world anyway is the use of the inherent energy of the universe in order to achieve an effect

i know that sounds really really vague but that's because i've found in my studies that magic can do essentially anything that you can think of, with very few exceptions

it can't raise the dead, for example, but it can animate a corpse for a little while, as if you were using them like a puppet, but you can't bring people back to life

you can make objects into living creatures but not into humans, idk why that doesn't work and honestly maybe you could but it's a branch of study that is pretty super illegal anyway

we had magic that razed entire cities during world war two, but most of knowledge for those was deliberately destroyed as per peace treaties

otherwise, um, most things are possible, with the right components

most people think it has something to do with wealth, because often the best components are the most expensive ones, but i actually think it has to do with a mixture of labour and time

gemstones are really good because they took millions of years to create, same with crude oil, etc

thinks like spell paper are really good because the creation process is super labour intense

living things like plants and animals and blood are good because of the time and energy invested into their beings but i have a thing against using animals or blood and honestly so should everyone it's pretty morally questionable


but yeah, given enough research, time and the right components i can probably do just about anything

not to blow smoke up my own ass :)


as for chroma as far as i can tell it's probably this universe's version of inherent energy

it seems to tap me for all my spells and yet i still need the components to cast them, so i must have brought some of my own magic with me, hard to tell

[reposing]

That's very fascinating. So you would indeed consider yourself something of an expert on the matter?

[foxable]

if you're talking expert as in recognized by academia or formal training not at all

if you're talking expert as one of the top living mages? yeah

at least back home

no idea how i rank here yet

[reposing]

That's absolutely fine.

What sorts of things have you done with magic that you find to be exceptional?

[foxable]

mostly the amount i can do

i'm not making nukes or anything
by moral choice not because i don't think i could

but i've never met a spell i couldn't do

except glimpse but jade says that's because i'm not cynical enough

every other spell, though
doesn't matter the school of magic, who originally cultivated that school or how tightly they were protecting the knowledge, i'll get it eventually

and then i just

make my own things

but i think for this kind of thing it's better to show than tell, yeah?

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[reposing]

Have you ever used magic for travel?

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[foxable]

teleportation or time

time i haven't figured out yet but i'm working on
same with multidimensional

teleportation usually isn't worth the components required

enchanting things to fly tho that's totally doable

tattoos that let you run faster, let your feet stick to walls, that sort of thing

i mostly parkour at home

i guess it depends on the kind of travel you want to be doing

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[reposing]

Time is a possibility, but it's more accurate to say I am looking into interdimensional travel.

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[foxable]

yeah

me too

i’m actively working on it but no luck so far
kind of a literal life and death thing for me lol so i won’t sfop until i figure it out but

even if i manage it, that kind of thing creates problems

you’ll spin off another parallel universe just by stepping into one

and you’ll change your own so you probably won’t come back to exactly the place you left


you trying to get home?