I'm not super magically gifted? I know a few spells, but here's what I've got:
Magic is basically a force that lets you overwrite the baseline laws of reality into...it depends. There's rules to how it works and they don't always make sense.
Sometimes they're practical. One of the first spells I learned was this one where you fuck around with gravity in a REALLY limited capacity. It's not good for much else, but if you fall off a building, you can basically land on the ground the way a feather does instead of just splatting yourself on the street.
[ Cordy likes spells that have an obvious practical use. ]
And then some people get like, REALLY into studying magic. Which is cool, I guess, you get nerds who are obsessed with pretty much any subject.
The way my mom explained it, and this is a REALLY abridged version, once you accumulate vast amounts of arcane power, there's not a whole lot of hard limits on what you can do. You're limited by how much mental energy you have for any given day and how much patience beings of equal or greater power have for you, and that's pretty much it.
So of course you make the shark orb. Why wouldn't you? Why the fuck not? Who's going to stop you?
I guess I should make the disclaimer that not all wizards are like this.
Actually, rule of thumb: the more powerful a wizard is the more unreasonable they're going to be. Your normie hedge wizards are alright.
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Magic is basically a force that lets you overwrite the baseline laws of reality into...it depends. There's rules to how it works and they don't always make sense.
Sometimes they're practical. One of the first spells I learned was this one where you fuck around with gravity in a REALLY limited capacity. It's not good for much else, but if you fall off a building, you can basically land on the ground the way a feather does instead of just splatting yourself on the street.
[ Cordy likes spells that have an obvious practical use. ]
And then some people get like, REALLY into studying magic. Which is cool, I guess, you get nerds who are obsessed with pretty much any subject.
The way my mom explained it, and this is a REALLY abridged version, once you accumulate vast amounts of arcane power, there's not a whole lot of hard limits on what you can do. You're limited by how much mental energy you have for any given day and how much patience beings of equal or greater power have for you, and that's pretty much it.
So of course you make the shark orb. Why wouldn't you? Why the fuck not? Who's going to stop you?
I guess I should make the disclaimer that not all wizards are like this.
Actually, rule of thumb: the more powerful a wizard is the more unreasonable they're going to be. Your normie hedge wizards are alright.