User blog:Holbenilord/Magic

It has been agreed that a single, canon kind of magic is best. I'd like it to also be a Hazard, so it should be original and internally consistent.

Ideas:

Another plane on top of ours filled with energy. Sorcerors bridge the gap to release it

Magic comes from space

Magic comes from things dying and releasing potential

Magic's effects must be visualised. This means offense and defense come naturally (just imagine a shockwave or fireball) but fiddly things like healing are only possible for those who understand human biology really well. This also rules out accurate mind-reading and possession... (which i don't like)

Magic can be contained within symbols drawn in Ichor (see PV)

Magic lost out to technology because it's cruder, almost always destructive, and only a few thousand people can ever be magicians.