Nature of Magic
The following is an excerpt from Andro Logran’s treatise “The Nature of Magic”.
...and so I posit that all magics are essentially equivalent when their source is considered. In the past, such meaningless divisions between type and practitioner are made to the point where it feels more like a political agenda to make all magic-users feel special rather than appropriately classify them.There is but one source of magic, and that is the Well, which we know to be very real and well-documented.All those labeled mas “magic users” simply draw power from the Well by onerous studies or by virtue of having a fortuitously crafted soul.
The latter is of extreme importance, as the field of Soulcraft has revealed that all of us are a sort of “sum of parts” drawn from the Well. In practice, this means that all of us are in possession of an arcane background of some sort, which enables our connection to the Well.It is possible that the parts we possess determine how strong that connection is and what kind of power we can manifest.
So-called wizards and mages simply possess a strong connection to the Well, whereas so called “Nature Magic” practiced by the Elves of the Dawnwood most likely have primal elements taken from the Well. We can even use this theory to explain “Divine Magic”, in the sense that these practitioners most likely possess spirit elements related to the very Lords of Thunder. Under this theory, it would indicate that the Lords of Thunder truly are dead, with their souls being slowly broken down into smaller elements just like any other living thing.
This brings us to Warlocks, the most dangerous of casters. Warlocks gain their power through a “pact” or agreement with another being. The power they manifest is lent to them by the holder of their pact, enabling them to channel power that they do not truly understand or control. It is well documented that such individuals do not truly understand the nature of the pact they have entered, creating an imbalanced relationship in which the individual is ultimately used as a pawn in a greater game...
...and so I posit that all magics are essentially equivalent when their source is considered. In the past, such meaningless divisions between type and practitioner are made to the point where it feels more like a political agenda to make all magic-users feel special rather than appropriately classify them.There is but one source of magic, and that is the Well, which we know to be very real and well-documented.All those labeled mas “magic users” simply draw power from the Well by onerous studies or by virtue of having a fortuitously crafted soul.
The latter is of extreme importance, as the field of Soulcraft has revealed that all of us are a sort of “sum of parts” drawn from the Well. In practice, this means that all of us are in possession of an arcane background of some sort, which enables our connection to the Well.It is possible that the parts we possess determine how strong that connection is and what kind of power we can manifest.
So-called wizards and mages simply possess a strong connection to the Well, whereas so called “Nature Magic” practiced by the Elves of the Dawnwood most likely have primal elements taken from the Well. We can even use this theory to explain “Divine Magic”, in the sense that these practitioners most likely possess spirit elements related to the very Lords of Thunder. Under this theory, it would indicate that the Lords of Thunder truly are dead, with their souls being slowly broken down into smaller elements just like any other living thing.
This brings us to Warlocks, the most dangerous of casters. Warlocks gain their power through a “pact” or agreement with another being. The power they manifest is lent to them by the holder of their pact, enabling them to channel power that they do not truly understand or control. It is well documented that such individuals do not truly understand the nature of the pact they have entered, creating an imbalanced relationship in which the individual is ultimately used as a pawn in a greater game...
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