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Originally Posted by Anthony
While I agree that this is common to fantasy, fantasy and magic aren't the same thing.
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There are very few works of genre fantasy that don't have magic of some sort. There seems to be a close overlap between the two.
Magic seems to have two common variants (see chapter 2 of GURPS Fantasy). In one variant, magic involves calling on various sorts of beings that can exercise agency over nature directly, making narrative causality basic to the way the world works. In the other, magic involves procedures by which a human being can gain the capacity for narrative or agent causality over the world, bypassing the usual requirement to rely on mechanical or physical causality. Both of these seem to be tied to forms of narrative causality.