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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ferret" data-source="post: 2643012" data-attributes="member: 4052">Whilst creating a new setting I thought I might flesh out how the magic works, so it goes a little something like this.Magic is like a stream flowing through people, monster, items, buildings etc, with sworls, and eddies creating a distinctive shape. The entire system of streams and flows of magic is called the Source. When spells are cast you change, create or destroy these flows, or the eddies in them. Some magic is an inborn movement and knowing how to twist the streams to your fancy is natural. Other learn about them and effect them with materials, and strange incantations. Other play these flows, or strings, plucking them for different effects. Obvioulsy the last sort lend them selves to music as well.Other people learn how to do so as part of other training, healing people, hiding well etc. but don't train specifically for it. Without training people may still have some brief, happenstance point where they move in just the right way to cause a disturbence.Learned scholars also note that whilst normally invisible, the eddies created by people, like  water flowing around rocks, can form its own marking on the wold. Laymen sometimes refer to these effects as Ghosts, Poltergeists, Ball lignting or just freak actions of luck; individual but closely related to the people who spawned them, attenuating through time and distance. Sometimes eddies can be created and manifested whole on purpose by experienced weilders of the Source, these 'creatures' take many forms and names but most call Familiars.The final point about the Source is that peoples 'streams' can be dammed, blocked off, and removed. This creates hollow mindless creatures, influenceable by their creators. Strangley the creatures do not dies immediately, although most fade after a few weeks.This is in for now, what do you guys think? I have a sinking suspision this has been done before.</blockquote>

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