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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4787899" data-attributes="member: 54707">By the way I wanted to make this one other point about what I think Fantasy is before I forgot it by going to bed. To me magic is basically fundamental to good fantasy and blood is absolutely fundamental to good fantasy.But magic arises from the blood, and not the other way around. Magic that does not spring from blood is more often than not just trickery, and not "magical," or wondrous. It's seems artificial, contrived, and like it springs from nothing, and really achieves nothing. Magic that springs from the blood (I don't mean spilling blood, but from the blood and marrow and essence of the man) to me seems powerful and eldritch. You know, heavy with power. Blood magic changes things in a more permanent way, not just temporarily manipulates them.</blockquote>