Sufficiently Advanced Magic (Arcane Ascension)

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Corin also managed to mix his corkscrew subessence with the mana from Selys-Lyann to form glittering ice to protect himself. Corin calls this his Shivering Shroud technique. This was a lot of fun. I've never been a huge LitRPG fan, and I felt like this book did a fantastic job of toeing that line, bringing in an abundance of video game influence, without veering into actually being a LitRPG with literal stats and things like that. One of the themes is that "god" is not an entity separate from the world but rather is the entirety of the world considered a living organism, observing the universe and itself for billions of years. Tavare begins to teach Corin how to form radiance mana which is a subessence of Constellations mana. Constellations is made of light and transference and Radiance is also made up of those mana types. Tavare floods Corin with radiance so that he can learn to manually construct the type himself. However, Corin fails to make radiance and instead forms a swirling mixture of light and transference that launches in a corkscrew like burst.

Air mana (mana amount not disclosed likely 180 and maybe 360 based on how the gray mana batteries were built) Both the Foundation and its rival, the Global Occult Coalition, employ magic users whom they refer to as "Type Blues". The GOC, who are much more strict about the Masquerade, refer to magic as "Applied Thaumatology" and assert that it's nothing more than a new form of physics. Shaping in Geneforge plays this trope to a T. New creations are traditionally made through experimentation, making one new creature after another with one slight modification each time and recording the results. The first game is about you being stranded on an island where you discover an abandoned research facility that had discovered DNA, and subsequently magical genetic engineering. The series as a whole delivers the message that the process of gaining knowledge gives you the wisdom to use that knowledge, and that simply being given power will lead to abuse. Defied in Weres Harry?. It is explicitly stated that magic does not make sense and cannot be logically understood or rationally explained. Things like wanded spells or potions are mostly predictable, but the further you get into the deep and powerful magics, the less logical sense anything makes. This is apparently one of the major problems Muggle-borns have to deal with: they are born and raised into a society in which it's assumed that you can explain and understand the world in which you live, and have trouble adjusting to a world that is fundamentally illogical. The story node " How mages discovered the scientific method " on Everything2 uses this as its central premise.

In fact, the author of the work goes to great lengths to sufficiently analyse his magical object; there are a huge set of rules for the workings of the Death Note covering almost every possible eventuality. It seems as if most Erfworlders are born (or "popped") with an innate understanding of the most basic rules of the world and the skills they need to practice their specialties, and this inherent knowledge tends to discourage further questioning ("Why ask questions when you already know most of the answers that matter?"). But Parson is ignorant of even the most basic aspects of Erfworld—and in asking those questions, he's also asking the sort of questions that lead to discoveries and tactics no one else in the world ever dreamed of. Healing spells that can be cast without needing active attention. Theses spells do not rely on the caster knowing what to do and simply increase the body's natural healing. In his tower, The Archmage casts his fortieth fireball today while his apprentice diligently notes the exact qualities of each. On his workbench are piles of fireball spells yet untested, but the Archmage plans to catalogue them all. Only then can he begin to study what makes one fireball stronger than another. Nephilim refers to magical techniques (e.g. Sorcery, Summoning, Alchemy, Necromancy) as "occult sciences" and states that the human understanding of "magic" is simply a silly superstition.

There are a number of other academic institutions dedicated to the study of magic, such as the Arcane University in the Imperial City, or the College of Winterhold in Skyrim, both of which cross over with being Wizarding Schools. Each is dedicated to the study and application of the nature of magic in a rather scientific fashion, including classifying magic into various "schools". In the Alcatraz Series there exist many different types of glass that can do things that we would call "magic", such as freeze rays, air currents to push something away, or stand upside down on an airship going 200 miles per hour. However, a point made in the series is that the locals do not consider it magic, since anyone could use the glass and is no different from say, a handgun—the laws of physics simply aren't as immutable to them. More specifically, things like Oculator powers or Smedry Talents are classed as "magic" because only specific people can use them and it's not something that can be taught, while most silimatic glass is classed as "technology" because anyone can use it with the proper training.

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Mori of The Dragon Doctors is a "magical scientist," someone whose basic job description is analyzing forms of magic and using appropriate forms of treatment for magical ailments. The SCP Foundation recovers and studies anomalous objects in the world, many of them being the origin of folktales and urban legends around the world, and some of which have been directly responsible for some of our more recent innovations. In AA3 he gained the ability to boost his attunement level; however he doesn't want to do this to often or for to long due to potential side effects. In AA4 Corin constructs the attunement levels Spessartine and Peridot. Corin can manually activate the levels through voice command. The Spessartine level gives Corin access to light mana. Join in and help us edit and grow this wikia! If you don't have an account yet, we encourage you to sign up! His defini