Post:Supernatural Abilities? - 3/20/2010 - 17:01:34

Re: Supernatural Abilities? · on 3/20/2010 5:01:34 PM	7638
>>Magic is exploited to amplify the mage's latent supernatural abilities - a moon mage's spells exploit his natural foresight and telekinetic ability. Right in spirit, though a bit extreme. Things like Aether Lash and TKT are purely magical, it's when you take the next step into spells like Moongate and Resurrection that things get freaky. A Moon Mage who lost his prophetic ability would still be a Lunar mage and have a number of spells at his disposal. Just none of the ones that really make him "a Moon Mage" iconically. For Clerics and Moon Mages the line is well understood in the fiction. There are spells where a Moon Mage is using his insane math and spells where he's not. For Warrior Mages the line is much blurrier. >>I think it was one suggested that Life Magic in general is so dependent on the supernatural confounds of nature spirits and empathic sense that a given life spell patterns often appear to be missing parts that should let them do anything, or full of extraneous magical nonsense that shouldn't do anything. That'd be the sense of any Signature spell, really. Life magic is only special here insofar as it has a very solid, well defined and militarized border with necromancy, which in a parallel reality could've easily been called another form of Life magic. The existence of Nnecromancy as independent entirely from Life magic creates Life magic's most important principle: Life cannot defeat itself. Life magic cannot do anything in the necromancy range without being Not Life magic. -Armifer
This message was originally posted in Abilities, Skills and Magic (4) \ General Discussions (3), by DR-ARMIFER on the play.net forums.