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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dirigible" data-source="post: 2171726" data-attributes="member: 12631">* Magic is not That Which Man is Not Meant To Know; it is That Which Man Was Meant To Know, But Is Not Equipped To Cope With.The Creator / Good Pantheon wanted to create sentient life and the universe in a state of perfect enlightenment and puissance. This would include the ability to mutate reality on a whim, and the wisdom to do so with judiciousness. The Archnaughty / Evil Pantheon interfered with the genesis, however, and as a result life is finite, full of suffering, and ignorance. All sentients are tainted with this 'original sin' equivalent, so when they come into contact with the unbearable purity of magic, the force of mutability that was supposed to be installed in life from day one, they are driven mad, poisoned by their own innate taint reacting against the purity, and unwilling to face the fact of theirflawed natures.Is is just me, or does the above read like the Bible, the Gnostic Heresies and Mage the Ascension shoved in a blender and set on 'bastardize'?* Magic is a fundamental protomatter from before time. The dough of creation. Channeling it in certain ways undermines the fabric of reality, leading to all kinds of tenticular problems. If used in other ways, it merely overwrites reality, which is a bit safer, though vastly hubristic.* Err... I had one setting where arcane magic as stlen form Beholders. Over time, practitioners heads would start to grwo... their bodies atrophy... their eyes merge into one cyclopian organ... stalks would grow from the sides of their heads...Maybe not my greatest idea ever.Brilliant! I love it!</blockquote>

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