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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7877917" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Now, first, this isn't DnD magic! Imagine the real world. It's roughly now, give or take a decade or so, and both real magic and non-human sentient beings and supernatural creatures begin to act upon the world to a degree where they can no longer be hidden. Rangers, a loose association of people who work to protect the world from supernatural evil, and keep both humans and non-humans safe from eachother, and until now protect the Secret, have begun to recruit and to work toward easing folk toward knowledge of the world as it really is, to reduce panic and violence when the news breaks on a wide scale. Meanwhile, magic is getting easier to learn as it gets easier to believe that it's real and as the world is less...blocked off from sources of powerful magic. I wonder how others here would deal with the fallout of such changes and revelations, giving the assumptions in this here OP.How magic works in this world is, anyone can learn Physical Magics, or Thaumatological Magic. This is magic that combines the user's Conscious Will with the Thaumatological Field to create physical changes in the world. Because this magic is filtered through the mind of the user, and because the T-field intersects with all sentient beings' Will, the physical magics don't always work in a way that is purely scientific, but things like Newton's Laws tend to apply to at least secondary effects. If you create fire, the energy has to come from somewhere, and the air around the effect will be heated, etc. Using magic is tiring. Anyone can learn it, but doing more than tiny amounts of it at a time is exhausting for most people. Magic items that aren't very very powerful/hard to make require direct interaction with a person of some kind. Person here means "a creature possessed of Conscious WIll", not just like..a human. Otherwise, magic and tech have no issue working together. You can power an object with magic, but its much easier to, say, transfer wasted kinetic and thermal energy from a person using an object to recharge it's battery. Some things are weird from a scientific perspective, like Cryomancy. This is because, again, physical magic intersects with the collective Will of all sentient beings, and people think in terms of Cold as a thing, rather than the absence of something.There are Ancestries other than human, some of which are inherently magical. Alfar, for instance, as descended from land spirits (vaettr) who made themselves semi-mortal to better interact with mortals, in ancient times. As such, they can speak with spirits more easily than others, and live incredibly long lives, slumber for extended periods every few centuries and awake young and malleable again (essentially reverting to a young adult without the hard-coded personality of old age but also losing much of their power and advanced knowledge). Shifters, OTOH, can turn into animals, and can enter the spirit world easily, especially in dreams, and are called every year to fight the Night Battles against horrors of the First Gods in defense of the waking world.The greatest beings of magic still have a hard time being on Earth (rather than their home world) for any significant length of time, and as such are still largely a matter of rumor and legend. There are also spiritual magics, dealing with spirits and gods, and the energy that runs between the 9 worlds, but let's stick to the physical magics for now. How do you think the world would look in such an era, vs, say, 30 years later?</blockquote>

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