Inventing New Spells and the first Mage

starslayer · 09-02-2012, 04:55 PM

I always more viewed it as 'the spells in the book are the optimized application of magic'.

In a world where magic exists it does more then power spells (it powers a lot of the races in that realm), manna exists and DOES STUFF, stuff that is largely beyond the ken of even wizards to figure out without a lot of research into things, but they can direct the manna, sloppily and haphazardly, with only trivial understanding of the fundamentals of magic.

So ANY individual with a background in thaumatology can enact an apportation. First you need to physically walk to the object and bind strings of magic to it, then you need to focus a lot, in a circle. Then you need to lift an equivalent amount of weight elsewhere to set up the sympathy between the two, and then what you were trying to lift up via apportation lifts up, at ten times the regular fatigue cost.

Basically it would have been easier to just lift the object up in the first place, but that it CAN be done by magic means that a proper wizard in there tower, with there tools, can bash away at the concept until they economize the process down to the apportation spell.

As such the first mage just noticed that by doing something weird they could get an effect that was not part of what they were doing, they then refined the process until they created there first spell, once they had one they taught it to others (and some of those others were better at it, and some of those others could just outright not do it).

09-02-2012, 04:55 PM	#6
starslayer Join Date: Dec 2006	Re: Inventing New Spells and the first Mage I always more viewed it as 'the spells in the book are the optimized application of magic'. In a world where magic exists it does more then power spells (it powers a lot of the races in that realm), manna exists and DOES STUFF, stuff that is largely beyond the ken of even wizards to figure out without a lot of research into things, but they can direct the manna, sloppily and haphazardly, with only trivial understanding of the fundamentals of magic. So ANY individual with a background in thaumatology can enact an apportation. First you need to physically walk to the object and bind strings of magic to it, then you need to focus a lot, in a circle. Then you need to lift an equivalent amount of weight elsewhere to set up the sympathy between the two, and then what you were trying to lift up via apportation lifts up, at ten times the regular fatigue cost. Basically it would have been easier to just lift the object up in the first place, but that it CAN be done by magic means that a proper wizard in there tower, with there tools, can bash away at the concept until they economize the process down to the apportation spell. As such the first mage just noticed that by doing something weird they could get an effect that was not part of what they were doing, they then refined the process until they created there first spell, once they had one they taught it to others (and some of those others were better at it, and some of those others could just outright not do it).