RE: Belief in magic
November 29, 2017 at 11:41 am
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2017 at 11:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 29, 2017 at 9:28 am)Aroura Wrote: I know some magic. It allows me to transport my very thoughts hundreds, possibly thousands of years into the future.
It's called writing.
Early med reports of a priestly class in the northern wastes claimed that druids could conscript the trees themselves into battle by use of arcane sigils. Amusing, since they did do exactly that, sort of. They wrote primarily on prepared tree bark or on trees themselves, and ofc as a guerrilla force they fought from cover.
Much of codified magic comes in the form of writing, or the recitation of inherited spells. The rights words spoken (or scratched onto the ground or a doll) the right way at the right place and time. We've always known that there was power in the written word, and we used to afford it a level of awe that mixed currents with the divine. Some of us still believe in magic books.
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