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<blockquote data-quote="Yaarel" data-source="post: 7436243" data-attributes="member: 58172"><p>For me, magic items are essentially psionic. The creator of the item is imbuing it with ones own psychic presence. So when interacting with someone elses magic item, one is really psychically connecting with that psychic imprint by the creator.</p><p></p><p>Norse texts influence me. There is a story about two Berserkar, whose mindforce (<em>hugar</em>) is strong enough to actually shift the shape of their body, when they induce the animalistic ferocity. They were wearing wolf fur as part of the meditative technique. Unconsciously, when the berserkar leaped into wolf form, they imprinted the wolf fur with their mindforce of shapeshifting. In wolf form, they left behind their clothes, including the wolf fur.</p><p></p><p>Someone else accidentally stumbled across the campsite of the absentee berserkar. It was cold, so he wrapped himself up in the wolf skin, was overwhelmed by the imbued psychic energy, also went into a berserkar rage and shifted into an animal-minded wolf, and went on a rampage.</p><p></p><p>In my mind, magic items are the extension of the mindforce and intention of the creator. The only way to use a magic item is to have a kind of personal relationship with the purpose of the magic item. According to the stories, it might even be dangerous, if there is no rapport.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaarel, post: 7436243, member: 58172"] For me, magic items are essentially psionic. The creator of the item is imbuing it with ones own psychic presence. So when interacting with someone elses magic item, one is really psychically connecting with that psychic imprint by the creator. Norse texts influence me. There is a story about two Berserkar, whose mindforce ([I]hugar[/I]) is strong enough to actually shift the shape of their body, when they induce the animalistic ferocity. They were wearing wolf fur as part of the meditative technique. Unconsciously, when the berserkar leaped into wolf form, they imprinted the wolf fur with their mindforce of shapeshifting. In wolf form, they left behind their clothes, including the wolf fur. Someone else accidentally stumbled across the campsite of the absentee berserkar. It was cold, so he wrapped himself up in the wolf skin, was overwhelmed by the imbued psychic energy, also went into a berserkar rage and shifted into an animal-minded wolf, and went on a rampage. In my mind, magic items are the extension of the mindforce and intention of the creator. The only way to use a magic item is to have a kind of personal relationship with the purpose of the magic item. According to the stories, it might even be dangerous, if there is no rapport. [/QUOTE]
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