>>14277372Magic, as the term will be used very often, refers to two different things depending on the context: First, it refers to the energy inherent in some special stones. Secondly, it is also used to refer to the learned ability of humans to manipulate this energy and create real-world effects.
Almost any human can use magic to some extent, or at least, has the potential to do so. However, the most effective and most modern spells usually require skill and talent to use, so, for a long time, Magic was reserved for the educated and wealthy elite.
Magic is a naturally occurring energy found in special stones known as Magic Stones. There stones are usually mined or quarried, and it seems to be a replenishing resource - as magic is used - it returns to the world to be recovered again.
There are 5 known disciplines of magic. Four of them are grouped into a category called "Formal Craft". Formal Craft, Red, Blue, Green and White magic, is what is referred to as "conventional" magic. The last, Black magic, is most commonly referred to as Witch Craft, and is regarded as abominable, dangerous and inhuman.
A. Formal Craft
1. Red Magic
This discipline covers all spells that ultimately convert magical energy into light or heat. These kinds of spells find most use in military applications, but some are useful in industry, specifically in producing electricity.
Examples of Red Magic are Beam Projection spells, and Thermal Conversion spells.
2. Blue Magic
This discipline covers spells that use a fundamental technique of "solidifying" magical energy, i.e. converting it into force. Spells in the blue discipline find most of their uses applied in self-defense, such as barriers, but some are also useful in industry and engineering.
Examples of Blue Magic include spells of: Barrier Craft, Force Projection, Pinpoint Defense, and Magic Platform.
3. Green Magic
This discipline covers a wide range of spells that affect the functions and structure of a living body. They are typically spells that improve the physical and mental ability of humans, and those that degrade them.
Green Magic discipline includes Augmentation spells, Mind Clocking spells, a wide variety of spells that attack or enhance a person's magic capacity and, finally, Magic Coating.
4. White Magic
This discipline manipulates magical energy itself. White magic is usually used in magic reclamation, restoring a person's damaged magic capacity and in logistics.
White magic typically covered a range of supporting spells, like Restoration, Magic Battery, Magic Transfer, and so on, but recent, failed, research in Royal Azalea suggests that White magic may hold a hidden destructive potential, possibly surpassing that which is possible with Red Magic.
B. Witch Craft/Black Magic
Considered an illegal discipline of magic to study, Black magic revolves around the relatively new concept of absorbing and storing magic directly in a person's body, effectively creating a living Magic Battery.
The processes involved in doing this, however, are incredibly dangerous and unimaginably cruel. The end result is also mostly a failure, killing the subject.
Furthermore, in the process of doing this, which involves "ripping out" a person's magic capacity, a person who does succeed in becoming a "Witch", as the end product of this process is called, cannot any longer tap into the magic from magic stones, as they are lacking any magic capacity. Instead, they need to transfer magic into their own body directly from others, a process that tends to damage the magic capacity of the victim, as well as causing physical harm.
Finally, there is a wholly different field of magic, under Black Magic, which they have sole and exclusive access. These spells are also unlike others in that, unlike any other spell, which, after casting, leaves residual magic that either returns to the world or it can be reclaimed and placed into Magic Batteries, Black Magic transforms magical energy into a new material - physical materials of varying kinds, which allows unnatural spells that, for example, create firestorms, shoot bits of glass, and even produce living monsters and give life to inanimate objects. This means that the magic is forever lost and cannot be reclaimed.
