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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[miraclewhip]

Fuck it if I'm using words like fucking intrinsic I'm not fooling anyone and it's easier to talk about shit like this if I use my words properly.

So you have magic, which is anything that a person can learn. And that can be divided into the shit Sypha does, which is a pain because the only component you have to use for it is yourself. And then there's shit like what forgemasters do, people who use magic themseves but channel it through tools to make it easier. There's the shit I remember my sisters doing, where instead of a physical tool you used this shit that's like mathematical equations but for the way things are. There's magical tools in general, where the magic part was done ahead of time in making the tool and the effect comes later on when it's used.

It covers shit you wouldn't expect it to, too. Church stuff, mostly. Blessing something is a thing a person can learn how to do, not something they're born with. So that's magic, even if the church'd rip all your best organs out for saying so.

And if something's not magic then it's something else.

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[reposing]

The sword is absolutely magic, but it's more complicated than just pointing at it and saying "that's magic". It involves making a contract with a familiar. I made the sword, and then I summoned a familiar to bond with who agreed to be bound to it and in turn protect me.

In any case

[reposing]

You know more about this than I gave you credit for.