Yes, I know not whether your perspective be limited by your own nature or that of your former place of residence. But your ignorance is manifest, if you'll pardon me for saying so. I shall illuminate.
[Loki hasn't really bothered to shift back. He holds up his left hand, and a small flame appears in it.]
This is much closer to a beginning. There are fundamental energies that bind this and other worlds together, in the spaces between molecules, the gaps between logics. Magic is the art of manipulating these forces: it is fundamentally restructuring reality according to one's whim. I have absolute control over this fire as it exists only because I will it, because it is not burdened by the laws that normally govern flame.
Thus, spells may be thought of as requests one makes of the universe to ignore its usual rules. And as in diplomacy, what you receive depends on the manner in which you ask.
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[Loki hasn't really bothered to shift back. He holds up his left hand, and a small flame appears in it.]
This is much closer to a beginning. There are fundamental energies that bind this and other worlds together, in the spaces between molecules, the gaps between logics. Magic is the art of manipulating these forces: it is fundamentally restructuring reality according to one's whim. I have absolute control over this fire as it exists only because I will it, because it is not burdened by the laws that normally govern flame.
Thus, spells may be thought of as requests one makes of the universe to ignore its usual rules. And as in diplomacy, what you receive depends on the manner in which you ask.