Karver said: My magic is more or less inspired by the TES Novels, where it is portrayed how certain non-mage casts a spell. He reaches into himself, to tap on the Magicka in himself to cast some kind of light spell. I'm merely expanding on it, that the process of casting requires the mage to reach into himself, to touch the piece of Aetherius while also his mind reaches out to the currents of magicka - streams if you want. Magicka gives everything life, properties, so there are multiple streams, with different properties and the mage had to find the right one and figure out how to tap into it. I treat magic and Magicka like something living and organic, becausr that's what it is. Lore supports that Magicka is actually very similar to the Force. So yeah, that's my vision.
I didn't even know TES had novels but it looks like I'm also spot on on how magic is canonically portrayed.
Like what you said, my take is that magic is literally in everywhere and everything in the moral plane of Nirn ala the Force and everyone has the potential to use magic, from king to peasant. However to my knowledge, both the games and the books don't really explain why some people/races are better than it than others.
My literary intrepetation on why this is so, is that there is both a natural biological and mental factor on how well a person uses magic.
On biologicaly, think Michael Phelps, the swimmer. You could for example be trained to be an olympic swimmer but it will take a lot more time and effort to do so unlike Phelps who is biologically dispositioned (his unsually long arms) to swimming. In other words, there is just something biologically in a person that lets them channel the magicka than others. Sort of like the relationship betwen bone structure and chi but that is something for another time.
On the other factor, I'm pretty fond of powers linking to a character's personality. As explained by Iroh of the Avatar series:
"Fire is the element of power. The people of the Fire Nation have desire and will and the energy and drive to achieve what they want. Earth is the element of substance. The people of the Earth Kingdom are diverse and strong. They are persistent and enduring. Air is the element of freedom. The Air Nomads detached themselves from worldly concerns and found peace and freedom. Also, they apparently had pretty good senses of humor. Water is the element of change. The people of the Water Tribe are capable and adapting to many things. They have a deep sense of community and love that holds them together through anything."
So other than just having the body for magic, the magic user must also embody the spell they cast. The classic example: person feeling the emotion of rage and passion is able to cast fire.
What seperates a mage from a non-mage is that the mage is able to consciously focus their emotions and to move their body in such a way to optimise magicka flow to cast a spell while non-mages are more of flukes. Now mages of multiple disciplines are rare because using magic of other schools just isn't 'them'. For example a Destruction mage who relies on feelings and knowledge of material and concrete concepts has trouble casting Alteration spells who instead rely on the abstract.
'I can feel fire, therefore it is real. My skin is not rock, therefore it is not.'
Anyway, I also use this theory to explain how and why some mortals in TES have performed seemingly superhuman feats.
Axius Revan said:
Alright. Writer's Question, guys!
How do you scale the size of Skyrim in your stories and the travel distances between towns?
For me, I use 10% of estimated distance by miles provided from this map:
I take the in-game maps and cities with a grain of salt. Scalewise anyway, so in my canonity, Skyrim and Tamriel is much bigger.
[blockquote][b][url=/profile/KarverTheLorc]Karver[/url] said:[/b] My magic is more or less inspired by the TES Novels, where it is portrayed how certain non-mage casts a spell. He reaches into himself, to tap on the Magicka in himself to cast some kind of light spell. I'm merely expanding on it, that the process of casting requires the mage to reach into himself, to touch the piece of Aetherius while also his mind reaches out to the currents of magicka - streams if you want. Magicka gives everything life, properties, so there are multiple streams, with different properties and the mage had to find the right one and figure out how to tap into it. I treat magic and Magicka like something living and organic, becausr that's what it is. Lore supports that Magicka is actually very similar to the Force. So yeah, that's my vision.[/blockquote]
I didn't even know TES had novels but it looks like I'm also spot on on how magic is canonically portrayed.
Like what you said, my take is that magic is literally in everywhere and everything in the moral plane of Nirn ala the Force and everyone has the potential to use magic, from king to peasant. However to my knowledge, both the games and the books don't really explain why some people/races are better than it than others.
My literary intrepetation on why this is so, is that there is both a natural biological and mental factor on how well a person uses magic.
On biologicaly, think Michael Phelps, the swimmer. You could for example be trained to be an olympic swimmer but it will take a lot more time and effort to do so unlike Phelps who is biologically dispositioned (his unsually long arms) to swimming. In other words, there is just something biologically in a person that lets them channel the magicka than others. Sort of like the relationship betwen bone structure and chi but that is something for another time.
On the other factor, I'm pretty fond of powers linking to a character's personality. As explained by Iroh of the Avatar series:
[blockquote]"Fire is the element of power. The people of the Fire Nation have desire and will and the energy and drive to achieve what they want. Earth is the element of substance. The people of the Earth Kingdom are diverse and strong. They are persistent and enduring. Air is the element of freedom. The Air Nomads detached themselves from worldly concerns and found peace and freedom. Also, they apparently had pretty good senses of humor. Water is the element of change. The people of the Water Tribe are capable and adapting to many things. They have a deep sense of community and love that holds them together through anything."[/blockquote]
So other than just having the body for magic, the magic user must also embody the spell they cast. The classic example: person feeling the emotion of rage and passion is able to cast fire.
What seperates a mage from a non-mage is that the mage is able to consciously focus their emotions and to move their body in such a way to optimise magicka flow to cast a spell while non-mages are more of flukes. Now mages of multiple disciplines are rare because using magic of other schools just isn't 'them'. For example a Destruction mage who relies on feelings and knowledge of material and concrete concepts has trouble casting Alteration spells who instead rely on the abstract.
'I can feel fire, therefore it is real. My skin is not rock, therefore it is not.'
Anyway, I also use this theory to explain how and why some mortals in TES have performed seemingly superhuman feats.
[blockquote][b][url=/profile/AxiusRevan]Axius Revan[/url] said:[/b]
Alright. Writer's Question, guys!
How do you scale the size of Skyrim in your stories and the travel distances between towns?
For me, I use 10% of estimated distance by miles provided from this map:
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I take the in-game maps and cities with a grain of salt. Scalewise anyway, so in my canonity, Skyrim and Tamriel is much bigger.
