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[incinerating]

Name: Emil Västerström
Date: 03/17
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Hi everyone. I'm looking for some information or whatever. I guess it's mostly directed at witches, but I know some monsters were mages back home too and I'm not going to turn away any input.

Anyway, how do you do magic? Like, using runes or chanting spells or waving your hands around or anything else. The focus or whatever, the thing you do to make the magic happen. What is it? And how did you pick it?

I've tried about a billion different things and nothing is clicking, I need some ideas.

Comments

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I haven't tried using an object yet. I guess I felt a little silly waving a magic wand around. My friend, I think, does magic by calling on the gods, but I'm still not sure I believe in gods and even if I did, they wouldn't be here. It's a whole different world.

Are you a witch here?

[poisontippedcure]

No. Unfortunately, I'm fae.

And heavens, you don't have to actually wave the wand. Often, magic needs to be channeled into something to give it physical form. The stick exists as a medium between you and whatever you're channeling.

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Oh. I'm sorry, I think?

What, really? I haven't really tried actually thinking hard about channeling the magic into something and THEN using it, but it all seems a little abstract. I feel really stupid doing it. How do mages deal with this regularly?

[poisontippedcure]

Well, to stop thinking of it as stupid is a good start. Communicating with the spirits is a great honor. Where I'm from, they won't talk to just anyone.

['Talk.']

Besides, if anyone makes fun of you, you can just set them on fire.

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I don't think magic is stupid. I just feel stupid waving a wand around, like I look ridiculous? I hate looking ridiculous. And yeah, where I come from spirits don't just talk to anyone either. You have to be touched by the gods or something. I never was. I didn't even believe in them.

[Wait, did she just say he could set them on fire? Okay, this person is cool.]

Hell yeah I can. I've been practicing evocation mostly. So far I've only managed to singe my eyebrows.