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[livvywrites]

15 for the magical asks please?

thank you for asking! (& btw, you have a lovely username!)

15. How is magic use affected by the emotional state or physical or mental condition of the magic user?

Emotion can affect the power of a spell, but how exactly it affects it depends on the user. For instance, some people who are angry might find their spells more destructive—while others may find themselves more controlled.

Physically, someone whose ill may find their magic weaker. Someone having a breakdown may find their magic exploding out of control (or find it locked away from their use).

Basically, it really just depends how it affects a person, but it absolutely does!

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[livvywrites]

Magical asks! What careers require magic use? How so, and how are those in these careers treated by society?

thank you for asking, & excellent question!!

Most careers in Eldora require magic, though they don’t really… mean to? But when everyone has it, it’s so threaded into daily life that it’s hard to exist without it! For instance, most doors are keyed to open with magical signatures! Everyone’s is different, see—and a restaurant might use this to only let employees in the kitchen door.

However, there are some jobs that do require more of a foundation of magic, or more blatant magic.

For instance, any career in the Mages Circle usually requires magical knowledge, even just teaching. The Magus College has many positions that require magical knowledge, but also those that don’t (such as a melee class).

Jobs with the Enchanter’s League also require a lot of magical knowledge, mostly because to make an enchantment you need a working knowledge of magical theorem. (I don’t know much about that, though xD)

[livvywrites]

maGIC ASK GAME. 8, 13, 14?

THANK ❤️

8. Are there certain identifiers for magic users? Appearance or behaviour-linked?

Not really! People of Eldora all have magic—and so do most of the creatures and plants! The one exception is Alinora, & she doesn’t have any special identifiers either.

13. When magic is being used, is there any obvious indication? Does something about the magic user’s appearance change, or is there a sound or appearance or smell, etc. of the magic itself?

It depends on the spell and the person! For instance, a flashy person might always have their fingers / eyes / etc. glow when they cast a spell. Whether they consciously or unconsciously do so depends on their spell knowledge.

Magic does always leave a smell for others though—and the person casting it / having a spell cast on them will taste something. These are unique to a person & can change after specific events.

14. What symbols are linked to magic? How is magic often depicted in illustrations? Are there different words for magic/types of magic?

There are different schools of magic, each of whom have a different symbol to represent them. (This is. Not something I have designed, however.)

There is also a runic language! Most people don’t have to know it to cast spells, but more complicated spells do require you understand it at least in part.

[ want to hear about magic in the meta ‘verse? ]

[livvywrites]

Happy Worldbuilding Wednesday! Tell us about the underground. Are there tunnels, trains, catacombs, faeries, bunkers, creatures, lava cores, cities? Or alternatively, are there more metaphorical undergrounds: smuggling rings, secret societies, an unknown world living right alongside ours? What's going on unbeknownst to the average public? What's down there? Who knows about it?

Oh, this is a really good question for Metanoia!!

So-- in Eldora, magic actually comes from Eldora’s underground! It travels up through the earth and exits at points called wellsprings. It also re-enters the earth to be “cleansed”, through points also called wellsprings!

Magic coming up through the earth means that magic is much more powerful underground. Anyone who works underground (in a mine, for instance) must be very careful when casting spells, lest it (literally) blow up in their face. There are restrictions on how deep mines can be dug, and also how often/how long they can have their workers work, because the deeper they go and the more they’re exposed to raw, unfiltered magic, the more it affects them. Usually mentally.

Some exiles are sent underground, where they become irrevocably changed, turned into something... else. Some of them keep their minds, but some go mad--whether from isolation or the strange “whispers” people claim to hear from raw magic.

Animals that live underground are more dangerous than those on the surface--and given that the surface has wyverns and basilisk, that’s saying something!

There are also abandoned Anarian cities there, which people have been studying closely, trying to figure out how the Anari avoided the danger of being surrounded by so much magic.