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<blockquote data-quote="Hungry Like The Wolf" data-source="post: 5371434" data-attributes="member: 93238">4E kind of screwed things up. All power sources are magic in a more defined (real world) cultural way but arcane is kind of left out in the dark.Primal = ManaDivine = Theocratic prayerPsionic = ESP etcArcane, I guess is a catch-all for everything else. The whole pact thing reminds me of a kind of a mixture of Solomon or Crowly's style of magic were demons are summoned and then bound.In a broad (real world) sense, all magic consists of manipulating or being in contact with the spirit world. So perhaps Arcane magic is as simple as that, the manipulation or contact with other planes. Pacts require negation with entities of different planes. Why couldn't fireball be the combination of ritualized hand gestures and elemental speech to tap the energies of the elemental plane? That's why Mages typically study, in order to learn all the different aspects which grants them the ability to manipulate these energies. Sorcerers are granted such abilities naturally because they possess other-worldly blood etc.I think that's how I would explain the Arcane power source in game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hungry Like The Wolf, post: 5371434, member: 93238"] 4E kind of screwed things up. All power sources are magic in a more defined (real world) cultural way but arcane is kind of left out in the dark. Primal = Mana Divine = Theocratic prayer Psionic = ESP etc Arcane, I guess is a catch-all for everything else. The whole pact thing reminds me of a kind of a mixture of Solomon or Crowly's style of magic were demons are summoned and then bound. In a broad (real world) sense, all magic consists of manipulating or being in contact with the spirit world. So perhaps Arcane magic is as simple as that, the manipulation or contact with other planes. Pacts require negation with entities of different planes. Why couldn't fireball be the combination of ritualized hand gestures and elemental speech to tap the energies of the elemental plane? That's why Mages typically study, in order to learn all the different aspects which grants them the ability to manipulate these energies. Sorcerers are granted such abilities naturally because they possess other-worldly blood etc. I think that's how I would explain the Arcane power source in game. [/QUOTE]

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