[Is there any better feeling than having someone take genuine interest in his work, and apparently be pretty familiar with magic themself? Grant thinks not. He nods enthusiastically.]
Yeah? Claude told me a little bit about the magic from you guys' world, but I don't think we talked much about the means of harnessing it... so, if it's based in knowledge combined with faith or reason, the process of using in your world sounds to be... a pretty internal process? Correct me if I'm wrong on that.
That is really incredible, though - where I'm from, humans just don't have the natural means to manipulate our world's latent magic, unless one has heritage from outside the plane. We can't do much of anything unless we use rituals to form a conceptual conduit.
One could consider it linked to the sciences in a way. It's not something any fool can just stumble through, however- intent is a great part of it, and it is largely internal, you're correct. Some have staves or other artifacts to act as catalysts, and you can certainly learn more through tomes but we are the harness and the caster.
I see! That's actually interesting... I wonder what makes the magic of our realms different?
Oh, same for us! Highly specialized sciences are still sciences, after all... and that element of intent is important for us, too. Sounds like there are some key points in common, even if the details are different.
That's the big question, isn't it...? There are species that can harness magic naturally on the Red plane - the, uh, the specific plane of reality humans live on in my world, there are three others we know of - but humans aren't one of them... [He sighs, pushing his fingers through his hair as he thinks it over.] I feel like there could be something there, more information to piece together why they're so different... but we know so little about dragons, there isn't a lot to work with as far as the mechanics of why they can use red magic at will and we can't.
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Yeah? Claude told me a little bit about the magic from you guys' world, but I don't think we talked much about the means of harnessing it... so, if it's based in knowledge combined with faith or reason, the process of using in your world sounds to be... a pretty internal process? Correct me if I'm wrong on that.
That is really incredible, though - where I'm from, humans just don't have the natural means to manipulate our world's latent magic, unless one has heritage from outside the plane. We can't do much of anything unless we use rituals to form a conceptual conduit.
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I see! That's actually interesting... I wonder what makes the magic of our realms different?
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That's the big question, isn't it...? There are species that can harness magic naturally on the Red plane - the, uh, the specific plane of reality humans live on in my world, there are three others we know of - but humans aren't one of them... [He sighs, pushing his fingers through his hair as he thinks it over.] I feel like there could be something there, more information to piece together why they're so different... but we know so little about dragons, there isn't a lot to work with as far as the mechanics of why they can use red magic at will and we can't.