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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1964351" data-attributes="member: 1328">Magic is based on ley flows. I could use Yoda's speech about the Force in ESB and it would be rather accurate: the ley is generated by existence, and in return, it sustains it. It flows between everything, is faster than anything, and its capacities are endless, for those who know how to use it.Using it is only half the problem, here. The lesser half. The biggest work is in getting one's own personal reserve of ley. Letting ley flow through you is not enough, as if you use that ley, you die. You need to attract/gather/create or elsehow accumulate extra ley. The more, the better.Here, we have four main methods.<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Arcane Art of Esoteria, used by all arcane spellcasting classes. Ley is normally attracted by certain particular lore. Mystic schemas, signification-laden symbolic associations, enumeration of ancient names, even peculiar mathematical rules... By learning all that stuff, someone may turn his mind into a "leytrap." It's believed that there's a primeval language from which everything, foremost among which was ley, sprang, and that these knowledge are pieces of the puzzle. The more you know, you closer you get from becoming one with the primeval verbs of power. The Dark Speech, the Words of Creation, Druidic, and the Raw Draconic (the language of magic used in arcane spells, not to be confused with Draconic as a language for speaking, used by dragons and reptilian races) would all be fragments of that primeval language. Some people are innately gifted for magic. Their being is naturally overflown with ley, enough ley that the process reverses itself -- they learn things through the ley that suffuses their body, mind, and soul. Knowledges of odds and ends, knowledge of magic itself. Bards and sorcerers are good example of that.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Divine Work of Theurgia, used by deity-worshipping divine spellcasters. There, you learn the mysteries not of magic itself directly, but of a divine being's teachings. In exchange for your faith, devotion, and walk toward enlightenment, said deity rewards you with ley. This is often considered easier (and healthier) than arcane magic, for you have plenty of ley, and by using an external source rather than an internal one, you do not risk pushing yourself beyong your limit, like wizards and sorcerers often do (hence their pitiful HD).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Natural Harmony of Telluria, practiced by druids and rangers. This is the most simple, down-to-earth (heh) look at magic. There are ley lines out there. It flows through everything. Rather than using ley you would have in your own being, learn to use the one around you. The one in plants, rocks, and beasts. The one in the ambiant air all around you.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Psychic Unity of Spiritism, practiced by psionic classes, is a workaround. As a result of the presence of ley everywhere, there are collective consciousness tied to places. They're the sum of every people, every thing living in said place. Sometimes, they go bad, by the way. They react to what happens, that's why you'll feel ill at ease in places where terrible things have happened. Well, as you can imagine, these collective consciousness are terribly potent. It is possible for someone able to master his own mind, to put said mind totally in phase with the consciousness, the spirit of the land. But attuning his mind to the local spirit in this way, he gets a very strong connection to it, which allows him to influence the spirit's actions. That's why they do not cast spells -- they make the whole landscape around them manifest its effect for them.</li> </ol></blockquote>

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