06-02-2016, 11:38 PM
(06-02-2016, 11:06 PM)Rahizel Wrote:(06-02-2016, 11:04 PM)Shaadaris Wrote: ((What exactly doesn't make sense? We have a whole system for magic, and I don't want to have to find it and drag it up again.))// then how do sentiment shadows work?
// even magic is subject to rules, just much more esoteric than known science. What I'm seeing here off and on makes no sense a- I'm too tired I'll explain lartt
((To be honest I've been taking a little bit of a break and haven't payed too much attention the last few pages. I take it you mean the
I can't explain them too well since they're Umbra's creation, but I'm not sure quite how (or if) they fit with the exact guidelines of magic in this universe. They're a holdover from the old RP, wherein Umbra's mind was basically held together by and/or split up into them. They were sort of mental constructs depicting parts of his personality, if I recall correctly, however they have been seperated into, as the verb would suggest, seperate beings now, which aren't exactly typical "magic". There are things that don't fit into the categories and don't follow the exact same rules, though they are few and far between.
Another example of this Principle of Magical Aberrancy (PoMA), as I'm naming it just now, would be my Schymnil race. Their entire bodies are covered in a coating which reflects absolutely no light, and their eyes glow brightly in the dark, and neither of these things have anything to do with the categorized magic, nor are they explicitly non-magical in nature.
I'm not sure if Umbra has a way to fit the (probably numerous) minor discrepencies people have into the system, if the system is flawed, or if this is outside of the system.
If it is the most latter of the three, I would suggest another section of magic: Primal, or as I've referred to it in the past, Reality Warping, wherein the magic is less something that can be controlled, and more something that just happens, and at the same time does not follow the exact rules of the more mainstream magics. This is the stuff of the things between worlds, of things beyond comprehension, of wild nature, and, occasionally, of very lucky (or very unlucky depending on how long they survive these powers) mages.))
((Edit: That was far more verbose than I intended.))