#magical mechanics

[breelandwalker]

For the witchy questions, do you usually do circles and call quarters, when you're casting spells?

Me personally? No I do not. The only time I've ever used a circle was for certain complicated rituals or in-person group workings. And I've never felt a need to call the quarters in my workings.

To me, these things are pretty heavily connected to Wiccan practices and certain types of ritual magic, and that's just different from how I prefer to do things. (Necessary sidebar to state that there's nothing wrong with Wicca or ritual magic, it's just not my bag personally.)

Honestly, most of the magic that I do is either enchantment-based, with a physical item functioning as the focus and/or anchor of the spell, or nature-related, directly tied to the land I'm living on and the plants and creatures that inhabit it. A good deal of it is very quick and very simple, not really lasting long enough to need a circle or an opening incantation.

[teratomatica]

you always land on all fours

[poisonheartfrog]

Sam and Evan have really rubbed off on each other by choosing the other's best skill to be their one that explodes. Evan has gained his own sort of confidence and charisma through no longer apologizing for his existence and Sam is beginning to stop underestimating her own intelligence.

[trash-shrike]

haha time to draw rhysand <- famous last words

Designed an illyrian body plan that balances book canon, aesthetics, and "realism" to my liking. Worldbuilding flying humans often comes down to how strong your ignorance and suspension of disbelief is :) In the case of ACOTAR though, we can just hand wave it and say black box magic is doing 99% the work.

[avakkins-alter]

Final Fantasy | Magic: The Gathering

[deviantelement]

Art trend!

(Don't mention that I wrote Mechanical Herald instead of Machine Herald... It's too late to fix and I was tired)

[cosmicportal]

If u know u know.

[abz-j-harding]

The MTG card I did the art for has flown in~

AD: Ovidio Cartagena

[blogfanreborn777]

Solemn Simulacrum by Daarken

[littjara-mirrorlake]

We don't talk enough about what a slam dunk the saga praetors were, both in terms of game design and lore connection.

Not only are the cards themselves excellent, they're extremely flavorful, as Phyrexians carry stories inside themselves through ichor memory. They are immortal stories that get retold with each generation, and the saga even brings the praetor themself back, just like how oil re-creates Phyrexian life.

[breelandwalker]

Hey Bree!! A while ago I did one of the walnut charms from Grovedaughter witchery and recently since I was traveling I put them in a purse and they ended up separating the halves (probably necause I only closed them with wax lmao)

So considering I dont think it broke for a "supernatural" reason, do you think I still can keep it and just glue the parts again (the herbs are still inside bc of the wax), or would be better to make another?

I THINK you could probably still glue it back together, if you feel like it's still got magic in it. If you have some herbs left and would rather remake the charm, that's also valid. So really, it's whichever feels right to you, seeing as you made the spell. 😉

Good magical mechanics question too! And excellent use of critical thinking regarding the accidental breakage!

(If anyone is interested in Grovedaughter Witchery or a spell kit using a walnut shell, you can visit my shop.)

[xartus]

It's framed as "science helped us to see what's real and what isn't and now we don't believe in stupid gods"

But really what happened is

"a particular brand of science was enforced upon the population and took away the ability to see an ensouled and enspirited world"

Ancient people were experiencing something we have lost. Imagine if we had never lost that in our culture, and had found all the other things, like microbes and new planets?

Idk I just hate the modern version of hard atheism where nothing except a version of reality made by Enlightenment thinkers exists. And that's now the Ultimate Reality of Everything. Cause of some dudes in the 1600s.

[miraclemaya]

anyway that's why madoka is actually the best character in the world. because her desire is to be useful, and it's such a deeply ingrained one that it slips over the notice of most people but it's there and it's very important. the fucking chairs look at her constantly because madoka needs to perform goodness or else she is worthless (they are judging her the same way she judges herself hence they are empty) (or something who knows what the chairs are about). and so just like how homura is selflessly selfish, madoka is selfishly selfless. and also she does kind of fuck up with ribbon homura like girl i know you also want her to remember but like that probably fucked up homura

[riddlemearose]

hello i have come to ask more about wild with magic he cant controll

i love that hc so much and it fits him so well! like no one taught him bc hyrule was mostly empty, and he wouldnt even know he had it himself because why would he! its genius!

Sure, I’m happy to info-dump lmao.

I know other people have already come up with the "Wild has magic" headcanon about botw before, but for me it honestly started as a series of jokes with a friend. Basically it made sense to me since all the other Champions’ abilities are either outwardly shown to be magic like with Mipha and Urbosa, or at least implied to be, as in the case of Daruk’s magic being hereditary, and Revali’s being something no other Rito has managed to achieve.

So we were both like “oh yeah, he’s got to have magic” *cue shitposts and memes*

There’s minor evidence to support its existence in botw; Teba says to Wild “it was as if time stopped with every arrow you let fly”, and Daruk’s Training Journal mentions that Link once told him that it feels like time slows down when he focuses. Some people take this to mean Wild has really good reflexes and others went with magic. I’m in the ‘Wild has magic’ camp bc someone did the math and worked out he’s like… almost moving at super-sonic speeds when he closes the distance to start a flurry rush.

The reason I say he can’t really control it is bc the only time he’s ever shown being able to do so is to enter and exit bullet time. That’s literally it. If you dodge at the right moment, even if you don’t want to flurry rush, it’ll still trigger and give you the opening to perform one (which ends after like 1-2 seconds of inaction). Wild also doesn’t have a magic meter like some other Links do; he uses his stamina. He’s literally brute-forcing his way through his magic (which, side note, Urbosa must’ve hated watching). And, to build off that last sentence, this means that Wild probably doesn’t have a lot of magic, but he does recover it incredibly fast – especially compared to the others who have to use potions. More on this last part in a moment.

It’s true that no one was there to teach him per se, but I think it’s a tad more complicated than that bc botw has an odd thing where it shows a lot of magic users (at least as far as I understand when compared to other games) but doesn't go into detail, which is fair given the Calamity. This means we don't really have a concept of how prevalent magic usage is in the grand scheme of things.

Looking at the series in a whole, for hylians/humans magic is largely limited to the Royal Family (specifically the women of the Royal Family), and they seem to mostly wield light and divine magic, very different from time magic. (The Ocarina of Time is there, but that’s an heirloom and not severely limited with its function based on whether its user has royal blood or not.)

And given how the Sheikah have been treated in botw's Hyrule's history, as they are the only other hylians aside from Flora and Wild who are shown using magic, I'm guessing it's not a skill you want to encourage, and innate magic users, even if they weren't Sheikah, were probably affected by the roll-on effect of the genocide for a very long time. This would create a long, deep-set history of missing knowledge that eventually affects the present.

If you ignore the potential loss of magic teaching, honestly I would assume it’s still hard to teach someone magic when you don’t share that particular type bc it probably requires knowledge that you don't have in regards to how it flows and can be controlled in order to be used. I do very genuinely believe Wild knew that he had magic before he died tho, bc I think Urbosa would’ve told him. It was the only time she ever heard him speak and the convo went something like Urbosa: you have magic. You just did magic. Link: nuh-uh Urbosa: FYM NUH-UH

This lack of training and general knowledge of how magic works is what I partially attribute to his weapons breaking as fast as they do. Attunement doesn’t actually exist obviously, but in fantasy worlds where it’s a part of the magic system, it’s a conscious step. It’s only seems to become an involuntary one when the person attuning the item has a lot of experience with the field that item is used in.

What I mean by that is Wild’s obviously never learnt actual theory (and it might be too late to fix the groundwork he's already laid), so he’s only ever been able to make his magic work in conjunction with the one thing he’s already being trained to do: weapon-fighting.

This is why he has flurry rushes, bullet time, and his fast recharge time. His magic manifests alongside his physical capabilities (so it will recover just as fast as his stamina does) and is attuned to flow through physical objects that simply aren't designed to withstand prolonged exposure to it (so his weapons, bows and shields will degrade and break faster).

I do believe his magic is something he has the ability to train (take the change to how bullet time uses stamina between botw and totk for example), and I personally like to write him getting a one-hit-swing second of slowed down time whenever he parries, but I think these ‘upgrades’ would honestly just come from fighting more and pushing himself in those situations, not from learning basic magic principles lmao.

And honestly, Wild’s magic is just really funny to me bc it has shenanigan potential that’s really only limited by your own creativity and his stamina wheel.

I say that because part of this magic headcanon actually grew from a post-totk headcanon where I whole-heartedly believe that Wild and Flora end up sharing the Sage of Time title, since there’s one extra Secret Stone floating around and they both specialise in different types of time magic. The joke w/ my friend has now become “well, if Wild can’t even willingly activate his magic unless highly specific circumstances are met, wtf is going to happen when it's amplified?"

Answer: he has literally no idea what he’s doing. He has accidentally slowed time on several pots/ladles/plates/etc that got knocked over, mistakenly frozen a yiga sword which yanked it straight out of the yiga’s hand – he meant to freeze the yiga whoops – and intentionally managed to slow time on one (1) bokoblin (and has not managed to replicate that result since). … he’s getting there. Maybe.

(Additional follow up lore can be found in this reblog. Also adding this to prevent future confusion at my accidental vagueness on this: yes Wild knows he has magic.)

[parti-poppers]

[cosmicportal]

“reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

~Albert Einstein