Post:Re: Wow, back after a long time, Howdy

Re: Wow, back after a long time, Howdy · on 08/02/2017 08:24 PM CDT	6483
Since I imagine this'll come up, I'll just skip ahead to the next post: Traditionally we've said the results of magic are not, themselves, magic. Once a spell effect is done, it just sort of is. If a magic spear impales you, you're left with a thoroughly conventional puncture wound that cannot be dispelled or dealt with in any special way "because it's magic" versus a puncture wound from a sharpened stick. The spell itself could have been stopped, but once its resolved everything is set. Healing herbs don't "do magic" in the physics sense (there's no mana bending, no spell energy, etc). They're the result of someone doing a lot of magic, which in turn produced an incredible effect, but the result works under its own set of laws and not the physical laws of magic. Which, again, might be splitting hairs, but some characters consider those distinctions important. -Armifer
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