11th Tale: Magic [Voice]

[theboywiththebook]

[Henry had been reflecting on things that had happened back home. Things that had happened with Peter Pan, his special heart, all of what happened in Neverland. He was sitting in his bedroom looking over the sword he once believed into existence on Neverland.

If he could just believe a stick into a sword, he wondered what else he could do. He looks into his comics because he's pretty sure he's read about belief powers before. And to his credit he does manage to find something similar to it. Reality warping. Just believing in doing something and making it happen.

He mulls it over in his head for a moment. He's pretty sure he's not able to mess with reality at all. Magic had a price where he came from but the rules seemed to change wherever he went.

So, he goes on the network. If only to ask if anyone knows more about this kind of stuff.]

Do you guys think magic changes depending on what world you're in? The rules I mean. Where I'm from magic always comes with a price, but, is it possible that in other places that it doesn't? Like just believing in something and you can do it?

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[Voice]

[enchantressofore]

[Someone else with magic? It intrigues her, enough that she brings herself to respond just a little bit into the evening - once she's at home and at least a little more relaxed than she was earlier.]

There are those in my world who are born with it - human beings, that is. They can control one element of the world with the exertion of their magic, and those found with that gift are called Magi*.

[[OoC: *Pronounced as 'May-Guy']]

[Voice]

[theboywiththebook]

They're born with it? I've never heard of that before. Well, except in books. Anybody can learn it where I'm from and there's a lot you can do with it.

[Voice]

[enchantressofore]

I see... No, where I come from it is a gift from one's parents - more specifically, one parent. To me it is strange to suddenly arrive to a place where anyone can learn to use it - and for it to not be restricted to one type, as well.

[Voice]

[theboywiththebook]

I could say the same about how magic works where you live. Magic's supposed to come with a price. But, here it doesn't for other people.

[It's both a little frightening and sort of cool. After all, nothing bad could happen with using magic for other people. But what stopped them from doing some horrible without that price to make people consider what they were doing?]

[elongatedsmile]

In my world many different creatures are aligned with many different elements. It is who they are and not considered magic. Then there are other creatures who do have the gift of magic.

During my time here I have found that those who live here find both to be magic. [The dragon pauses for a moment to think over the words she has just said to see if her meaning has come out correctly. She thinks it has.]

[theboywiththebook]

Yeah they do both sound like the same thing. But, what's the difference between them if the first isn't really magic?

[elongatedsmile]

They are very different in my world. To be connected with an element is a part of a creature. It is limited. Magic belongs to very few and it is nearly limitless. Able to create, mix the elements, and do things I do have the words to explain. I have only met one who I would say could use magic. I have met many who are connected with an element.

[theboywiththebook]

Sounds dangerous for someone to be able to do that much with magic. But, what can people do if they're attached to an element?

[He's actually kind of curious.]

written;

[reviling]

[in neat, careful handwriting:]

In my world there doesn't seem to be anything like magic.

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[theboywiththebook]

[He's sticking with voice. He doesn't sound to surprised when he reads them.]

Yeah that was the same back home until magic was brought over. A lot of worlds here seem to either have it or don't.

written;

[reviling]

It seems like there are several different types of magic, and the way it behaves is unique to the world where it's used.

But I'm not an expert.

Can you do magic?

[Voice]

[spellfeather]

Magic without consequences is a bit hard to imagine. [Karis pauses, thinking things over a bit.]

I don't think the rules can be changed based on location alone, but I could be wrong. It would be interesting to experiment with, I'd test it myself, but I don't want my brain to turn into a vegetable, as too much magic is capable of doing that where I'm from.

[Voice]

[theboywiththebook]

It looks to be that way here with the rules changing and stuff.

But that sounds pretty scary with magic doing that to people's heads.

[It's surprising but if he thought about it, he's not quite surprised. Magic usually had some downsides to it back home too.]

[Voice]

[spellfeather]

Hmm. Maybe I'll look into it. [Along with a lot of other things, but moving on...]

It is. [There was certainly an audible frown in her voice.] The condition it can leave people in is heartbreaking as well. Though there are medical procedures that can help people get back on the right track, but it takes years for someone to fully recover.

[dickmoves]

That's how it works where I'm from. [ Sort of. ] Not the price thing, but the "I want this to happen so I'm going to make it happen".

[theboywiththebook]

Really? If that's the case it sounds like it could get pretty dangerous. Who knows what someone could do with that.

[God, if Pan had power like that he'd probably...he's not sure what Pan would do but probably nothing good.]

[voice]

[folklorist]

I think the methods and the application changes, as well as the rules yes. Some places require spirits to use magic, others simply bend the elements to preform it. I know in my own world magic doesn't really have a price to pay. People just...ah do it.

[voice]

[theboywiththebook]

So they can do anything? Whatever they want with it?

[voice]

[folklorist]

Ah not quite anything they want. Bending reality, bringing people back from the dead, and-and things like that are almost impossible for magic users in my world to do. Not without assistance from...rather darker sources or means of course.

[voice]

[kemanorel]

Magic works very differently where I come from than what I've seen here. Different races of people--humans, elves, and halfbloods, who are a mix of the two--all have different types of magic. Here, there are humans with all sorts of different skills and none of them are at all like what humans can do in my home world.

As for magic coming with a price, I've only seen it happen once in my home world, and that was under a very specific set of circumstances.

[voice]

[theboywiththebook]

See, where I'm from anyone could learn magic if someone taught them how to do it. Didn't seem to matter what you were. Sometimes you didn't even need to be taught it, you could just use other things that did magic. Like wands or fairy dust.

[voice]

[kemanorel]

That's very interesting. The idea that one can just pick up an object and use magic is very foreign to me.

Where I come from, having magic means having power. Those born with weak magic are ruled over, and bullied, by those with more powerful magic. And certain kinds of magic are considered so dangerous that the they actively try to eliminate users. Like humans. Many humans have magic of the mind--the ability to read thoughts, for instance--and so the elves, the rulers, have enslaved them and force them to wear special collars that cancel out any magic they may have.

...I don't come from a very nice place.

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[dedicatednoless]

No rules or prices come with it where I'm from. But one thing is that you're either born with it or not, and most people who can use it can only use one or two types based on their fonins... in other words their lineage. [DNA, basically.

And normally Peony might have second thoughts getting into the subject at all what with where he was, but figures with a kid asking it's not harmful to spill a little on the subject. And he's not the paranoid type either.]

voice;

[theboywiththebook]

So, like that genetics stuff? That's kind of a weird way to be able to use magic. But, what's a fonin and the types, are they like fire and water and stuff like that?

[It's not too strange a concept of people being able to use only element based magic. After all, that's how it worked here.]

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[dedicatednoless]

Ah, the simplest explanation to that is that fonons are genetics. And depending on their frequency people can use the six fonic types - yes exactly like fire or water, which are the fifth and fourth fonons respectfully.

[He gives the simple explanation because he's not any more knowledgeable in how it works than that. Experts in the fonon field like Jade would probably know more about frequencies and the fonons that make up each person.

ooc: fonin is actually spelled fonon, sorry for the mistake.]