Magic

Magic / noun :

First Page Mentioned (By Name) : ch. “In The Beginning” – pg. 2

In the world of Geb, magic is everywhere, in the ground that grows the plants, and in the air that everyone breathes. However, it is a very precise and dangerous element of nature. Those who study its sources, are able to manipulate the environments around them through their own knowledge and will. Those who don't study it, can barely blow a leaf a few inches.

Because of how magic operates, people must understand the core elements of anything with which they wish to use magic. If someone wishes to use magic to heal a cut, they must know how skin cells grow, and communicate, with the rest of the body. If someone wishes to use magic to communicate with a squirrel, they must know how a squirrel thinks, their motivations, drives and concerns. If someone wishes a plant to grow, they must know how a plant gains sustenance from the Sun, or its earthen bed. If someone wishes to make fire to heat, earth to build, or water to flow, they must know the reactions of chemicals and compounds in relationship to their environments. After having all this knowledge, the person must have the willpower and ability to control it through the forces that bind the universe.

Magic is powerful, indeed, but as the people of Geb know, not everyone can control it. While everyone on Geb has the ability, the Gigans did not, and neither do some animals or plants. This has propelled varying studies of magical knowledge into advanced theories and conceptual exploration. As a result, many become specialists in a number of fields, such as Energy, Medical, Fauna, Flora, Water, Earth, Fire and Air Specialists. With the compulsion to seek all the answers they can, fields of magical study are continually being explored, created, altered and dissected, although most do seem to fall back on core concepts of environmental and biological study.

While the study of magic is an intense form of science itself, the key defining feature of practical sciences, remains the fact that their application requires constructed elements to complete complex objectives (such as bulldozers to facilitate the moving of earth, or chemical compounds to clean bacterial infections); while magic, at its core, merely requires the person's knowledge and force of will (although magically driven technology certainly exists, and is utilized on a daily basis). There is much cross over between magical sciences, and practical sciences, which is why even the greatest of practitioners excel in the knowledge of practical science. After all is said and done, magic is nothing without knowledge, and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Related Entries: Geb (The Island Of); Gigan

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