What Makes a Great Magic System?

[ak_aramis]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

There's a third option, that the different kinds of magic are no more connected than physics and chemistry.

Chemistry and nuclear physics are intimately interrelated. As in, Chemistry is nuclear physics as observed from a blurry distance.

Chemicals exist the way they do because of nuclear physics. Their interactions are all, fundamentally, just nuclear physics in useful combinations for the macro scales.