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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 9797381" data-attributes="member: 58172">My understanding is, the "fuel" is either ones own personal soul (psionic and primal), or the impersonal planar weave (arcane and divine). Albeit, this fuel doesnt get exhausted.Then each power source is a "method". Each source is a different "Theory of Magic".Ultimately what defines the martial power source is reallife. If it can happen in reallife, then martial can do it in an impossibly exaggerated way. The thematic pair is the exaggeration of Body and Tools. The various superheroes whether athletic or technological can inspire character concepts. This magic of martial utilizes the Material soul, namely the ki lifeforce bodily aura, and the weave of Material Plane.An example of an effect that is on the threshold and might be martial: a sword can be polished so its blade is mirrorlike and gleams; so martial can polish it so well it literally shines in the dark ss a lightsource. This effect relates to the Tool theme and tech flavor.There is overlap between martial and the primal themes of Fey body shape shifting and Elemental alchemical technology. What distinguishes martial is reallife phenomena anchors it even if there is an impossible exaggeration.Yes, for primal magic, the features of nature are persons. Each river has unique personality and dramatic psychological presence. Some of the rivers are skilled at magic. While a river is native to the Material Plane, it is a watery Elemental soul. This soul is aware. It can taste the things that are in its riverwaters. If this soul knows how to do magic, it can exert Ethereal influence -- especially telepathic -- by projecting a remote presence via the Border Ethereal that can manifest magical effects beyond the river. Importantly, the river soul is nonhuman, and might typically manifest as weird watery events. But some rivers know shapeshift magic and can take the form of a human or other animal. If it takes the form of a human, it also adopts a human mind, thoughts and emotions, albeit this humanlike overlay feels alien to the nonhuman river itself. A river is the Elemental soul of the Elemental creature type. However the form that this Elemental chooses to take is the river itself. It rarely animates, and the Water Elemental monster statblock almost never applies. More typically the soul of the river is encountered in ghostlike paranormal activities, including dreams, apparitions, and weird watery occurrences. The same is analogous for earthy mountains, and so on with any feature of the landscapes, plantscapes, seascapes, and skyscapes.Primal magic is about forming a social community, where Humanoids and these natural Elementals exist civilly and constructively, with mutual respect. A role of a shamanic is to identify any conflicts between any members of this community and to negotiate reconciliations - whether human-versus-human, human-versus-elemental, or elemental-versus-elemental. In this animism, it is the neighborliness that is the sacred.</blockquote>

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