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<blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 5733164" data-attributes="member: 63508">To me, each power source is based on a layer of D&amp;D's reality.The Martial power sources is the base layer. It draws from the basic laws of reality. Normal physics. Regular Chemistry and biology.Arcane and Divine are the layers of the background. Arcane magic user tap into the laws of the world that most never see and cannot happen under normal laws. These are the supernatural laws. Academic arcanists (wizards) learn the rules behind nature while raw arcanists are attached directly to the rulesDivine magic is the other behind nature power source. Divine power users get their power from the current rulers of nature, deities. Their power comes from deities and follows the rules placed by them.Primal power is much like a mixture of Martial, Arcane, and Divine power. The Primal power like Martial is nature but is the part of nature people normally can't control: storms, spirits, plants, etc. Like Arcane, Primal follows a hidden ruleset except it isn't hidden behind nature, it is nature. Linking oneself to this normally uncontrollable part of nature requires the being to be born attached to it (fey, elementals) or mentally aligning oneself to it (like a Divine character).Shadow is the false layer. False life through undeath. False truth through lies, illusions, and deception. Shadow users draw from the absence of real nature and supernature. They pull from the energies between the layers. Everything an acanist casts a spell, a cleric receives energy from a deity, a druid moves a cloud; maybe a tiny percent of energy is lost in the process. Maybe a little bit of latent magic copies the controlled magic around it. All this dead power and copied power is the Shadow power &quot;source&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Minigiant, post: 5733164, member: 63508"] To me, each power source is based on a layer of D&D's reality. The Martial power sources is the base layer. It draws from the basic laws of reality. Normal physics. Regular Chemistry and biology. Arcane and Divine are the layers of the background. Arcane magic user tap into the laws of the world that most never see and cannot happen under normal laws. These are the supernatural laws. Academic arcanists (wizards) learn the rules behind nature while raw arcanists are attached directly to the rules Divine magic is the other behind nature power source. Divine power users get their power from the current rulers of nature, deities. Their power comes from deities and follows the rules placed by them. Primal power is much like a mixture of Martial, Arcane, and Divine power. The Primal power like Martial is nature but is the part of nature people normally can't control: storms, spirits, plants, etc. Like Arcane, Primal follows a hidden ruleset except it isn't hidden behind nature, it is nature. Linking oneself to this normally uncontrollable part of nature requires the being to be born attached to it (fey, elementals) or mentally aligning oneself to it (like a Divine character). Shadow is the false layer. False life through undeath. False truth through lies, illusions, and deception. Shadow users draw from the absence of real nature and supernature. They pull from the energies between the layers. Everything an acanist casts a spell, a cleric receives energy from a deity, a druid moves a cloud; maybe a tiny percent of energy is lost in the process. Maybe a little bit of latent magic copies the controlled magic around it. All this dead power and copied power is the Shadow power "source". [/QUOTE]

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