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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ConcreteBuddha" data-source="post: 1586590" data-attributes="member: 3139">Yeah, it's confusing me, too. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Well, I'm not particularly keen on typical "fantasy" as "people" describe it. Can't stand Tolkien-european-medieval-forest-bow-dragon-peasant-Conan games. I like the fantasy concept that gods are, well, mysterious. Can't stand the Time of Troubles in FR. Drives me batty. Just a matter of taste, of course.Is arcane magic (or psionics) powered by faith?I always thought of arcane magic to be more like RW science. The fireball happens not because of the wizard's faith in the fireball or force of will, but because the wizard has learned how to manipulate the forces of the universe using arcane tools. Same way a RW particle accelerator works, or a cannon, or a flashlight. The tools are different, the results are different, the process is the same.I've always thought that Mage the Ascension was fundamentally about divine casters (mages) vs. arcane casters (technomancers). So it's funny that you brought that up to support your position. Same source material, different POV.Say I believed in bushido. Domains were War and Law. Then I had a crisis of faith. Too many bloody wars. Too much blind loyalty. I disagreed with the philosophy. I lost my powers. Then I started believing in helping others. I traveled around and healed everyone I met for free. I had an atonement cast on me. I gained my powers back. I am now a traveling healer, domains Travel and Healing.Sure, it's not a relationship in the sense of human + human. But oftentimes people have relationships with nonsentient nonhuman things. Like your chair. Or the sea. Or an idea.</blockquote>

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