text | un: m.c.

[blackestwitch]

Two questions for you all. One of them minor but kind of personally important. The second more of an excuse for you to ramble at me.

Okay, first. How do people usually keep track of birthdays around here? Because I should be turning sixteen very soon, except now it's like May and I've lost a bunch of months. Do I have to do math to figure out when I turn sixteen or do I just keep saying I'm fifteen for another half a year? This is important. I could be driving.

Setting that aside for a moment, an open question. More of a request, really. Can you tell me about magic in your world? I always assumed magic was kind of a universal constant, but from what little I've learned, it seems like magic can come in many different forms depending on the world. So tell me about yours.

I'd be happy to answer any questions about my world's magic in return. I can't use it myself but I ran a podcast about it. Maybe I'll even compile the information I learn here into something like that.

Maddie out.

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Un: konawa talimo (text)

[dragonmouth]

I wish I could tell you, myself. This world uses a different calendar from mine.

Back home everyone had a particular gift passed down from one of their parents. I happened to have inherited mine from my mother, but it's really a toss of a coin which one you get.

Other than that, you'd have to either consort with spirits or make use of whatever objects they felt like enchanting.

[ There were also potions you could make, but no one really considered that magic since it was solely for medicinal shit. ]

[blackestwitch]

You're the second person I've met whose world's magic is tied to bloodlines. That doesn't seem to be very common.

What are these magical powers like?

[dragonmouth]

It really depended on who you spoke to. Nakari was just absurdly lucky, or at least, that's what I gleaned. Kiita could see through illusions, Ama could make solid shadow copies of herself, I've known a few healers.

My father could see remote events, as long as they'd occurred in places he'd been to before.

[ She's not gonna say what her own power is unless really pressured to it. ]

[blackestwitch]

Interesting. So very specific powers. Some are rather utilitarian as well.

Where I'm from, magic tends to be thematic, but still with a variety of different ways to use it. Fire powers, ice powers, shooting giant lasers, that sort of thing.

[dragonmouth]

What on earth is a laser?

[blackestwitch]

A beam of light so intense that it can cut through things.

[dragonmouth]

Oh! I know of a few people back home with such capabilities, but... I'm not terribly close to any.

[blackestwitch]

The point was just that I'm used to less specific powers than your world seems to have. It's an interesting note on how magic seems to work in your world.

[dragonmouth]

I suppose we do all have our limitations, but sometimes a little creativity is all you need. You'd be surprised at what some people could accomplish with even the most inconveniently specific abilities.

[blackestwitch]

I'd like to see that. Or hear that, in my case.

[dragonmouth]

Well, Nakari, for instance.

As I said before, she always found ways to make herself absurdly lucky...

And as she told me once, there's a world of difference between something being impossible and simply improbable.

[blackestwitch]

I could see manipulating odds to be pretty OP. Could've used some of that myself.

[dragonmouth]

I'm sorry, but what exactly is OP?