User talk:Qmasterflex86/Dwilight Netherworld/Magic

Disclaimers

This is something only for flavor and possible enjoyment. Possible, because like everything else, magic isn't a fantasy element for everyone. That said, I will admit to a rather shallow background in the various lores of magic. My exposure to magic comes from Harry Potter, World of Warcraft, Lord of the Rings, Eragon, Dungeons and Dragons, Final Fantasy, and Magic the Gathering. On top of that I only read through the Harry Potter series and Lord of the Rings, having stopped after book one of Eragon, played World of Warcraft up to Burning Crusade, played Dungeons and Dragons for maybe a week, played and finished FF 4, 6, 7, and Tactics Advance, and looked at a few MTG cards for the pretty art. Oh, and I have some knowledge of the Nasuverse enough to know that it's about vampires and sorcerers or something.

The entirety of what I have so far about what my imagination interprets as the current Battlemaster mortal magic that takes the form of spell scrolls comes purely from my imagination. As for the elements I've touched on, the first and most important "central dogma" of equivalent exchange is something that is at the root of our current understanding of energy. It can't be created or destroyed but transformed, last I checked. Similarly, even though some forms of magic in other media take the form of miracles that bypass all the laws of reality, I have chosen to keep my imaginative version of the BM magic somewhat bound by rules. You can't stop time or bring people back from the dead, or even start a nice campfire without messing with something else first. Inspiration from this was drawn loosely from the First Law of Thermodynamics, and I vaguely remember Brom talking about a similar concept in Eragon. It has been three years since I read that though, so I'm not sure what exactly that part in Eragon was about, or whether it actually existed.

The concept and trigger were my terms for the preparation and the incantation. Something I suppose is not new to any treatment of magic. You need the materials and the goal in mind, and then you say some words or make some gestures, and then you get your magic.

Again, this is purely for fun, and not meant to provide an accurate account of the mechanisms of BM mortal magic. In fact, I would not be surprised if I am horribly inaccurate, assuming there is or ever will be a definitive guide to magic.

Please enjoy, and I will likely be working on this in some way for the next couple of months. Of course, this is all OOC stuff except with some daimons that might or might not be interested. --Qmasterflex86 18:37, 8 August 2010 (UTC)