#topic: magic

[girl-blorbo-polls]

Is your girl blorbo magical

Yes

No

Well she's cursed/blessed/magic has changed the direction of her life in some way so kinda

No but her one of her friends/family members/other ppl she has close relationships with are

Is your girl blorbo magical

Yes

No

Well she’s cursed/blessed/magic has changed the direction of her life in some*

No but one of her friends/family members/other ppl she has close relationships**

Voting ended onMar 31

*way so kinda

**with are

[xiccilles]

about 1.5% of magic users will use nanzen [magic] in their sleep, as it falls under a form of sleep walking.

[xiccilles]

if you want to learn magic outside of your jizen, you want to learn from someone who does not have it as a jizen either, because it works functionally differently for them.

[xiccilles]

i thought so much about yasāshii's capability for combat i havent even considered he could use his jizen to fly

note: anyone can learn to control air pressure, but because it's his jizen, it comes easy - he could use the power well as a child, while the average person would take a very long time. not to mention he's now in his 40s so he has had lots of time to perfect it.

[xiccilles]

i think perhaps the meaning of having a jizen is that you dont need energy to cast spells of that type, and/or those spells are easier. im still deciding.

[avoidingcertaindoom]

@kittensartswriting from this post

Thank you!

Yes, Tlalli's got all sorts of tattoos for these purposes and in the event any are broken she can recycle the old ones via touch ups. Most of the ones that are shockingly difficult to break are nuisances, like not being able to enter a room in one foot without tripping, or becoming extraordinarily sensitive to light and thus not being able to work during the day on certain occasions.

Some she's managed to just repurpose for life's convenience; she's got a very keen awareness of out of reach to most mushroom clusters she can all too happily use her wings to raid, and up until recently she's been able to move around a lot more freely in the winter without extra layers because of an overheating spell went wrong for a client.

The trickiest part is really properly binding ink, as the discipline to distill a curse's magic into it isn't easy to come by. Celino struck upon it with her inquiries into blood magic and due to that most people in Penasco are quite wary of it's applications.

[vikunla-blog]

Magic: An Overview

Magic is fundamentally neither matter nor energy, but a process of transferring and manipulating information. Most lifeforms can use an extremely rudimentary form of magic under specific circumstances, but the development of proper, consciously directed magic came about only with the evolution of intelligence and language. Language allowed early people to form complex ideas, and imagine what could be instead of simply reacting to what is. Simple early applications of magic included the cultivation of plants and animals, medicine, and the preservation of ancestor-spirits for consultation by future generations.

[bookofalmsivi]

How does Restoration work? Are there different spells to cauterize and disinfect?

It does depend on the type of restoration.  The school lumps together many magical methods.  Some spells that we call restoration for the sake of convenience are actually necromantic in nature!  Oh yes, it’s true.  There are some spells that stop the spread of necrosis by manipulating the dead flesh and by technicality, they are necromancy, though few would call them such when speak to commoners.

True restoration is similar to mysticism, manipulating the energies inherent in the body instead of focusing on external forces.  While most think only of healing when they hear the name, it does not end at healing.  It may dredge up forgotten memories.  It may be used to form soul-shields.  It may injure vampires, turn away the undead, and stop the sword from cutting you to the born.

And yes, of course, you may chase away disease and close wounds.  Even in what we traditionally consider restoration (not all of which is technically restoration), there is great variety.  You can persuade the body’s natural healing to accelerate.  You can will a wound out of existence.  You can reset a piece of flesh into becoming once again what it was a few minutes before and there is so much more.

Yes, there are spells to seal a wound with a flash of fire and more.  There is magic to produce hot water to wash saws and clean soiled cloth.  It is, however, more practical to use more mundane water as it has the same effect, though it is often dirty.  Clean, boiling water is key to maintaining good public health.  It drives away Peryite’s pestilence through the interaction between sacred flame and water which small devils cannot withstand.  In many parts of the world, doctors do not clean their clothes and wash their hands and so many people die.  I am thankful that when I was burned to a crisp, I was tended to by devotees of the Clockwork God.

It’s fascinating, really.  I’ve never had much of an inclination towards it, I’m afraid, being as I’m…well, you know, some of us prefer plants and salves to trusting ourselves to strange mages.