Lemrin: And here we reach the unavoidable question.
Lemrin: Just what is magic, anyway?
Lemrin: Queue endless definitional debates, heated midnight arguments and the occasional war or two.
Lemrin: Fortunately for our purposes, we can mostly sidestep all of that.
Lemrin: Although if you do want to get into it, Alaram’s Understanding Magic is a good starting point.
Book: Understanding Magic. The Impossible Art. By Lane Alaram.
Lemrin: But anyway, shuffling the debates to one side.
Lemrin: Magic, or more specifically a magic spell, boils down to three essential things.
Lemrin: Intent, craft and power.
Lemrin: Power we can broadly think of being internal or external.
Lemrin: It might be drawn from deed or item or a happenstance of life or lineage.
Lemrin: Craft is the thing we spend most of our time trying to teach you.
Lemrin: Without craft, a lot of power may achieve little. With craft, even a little power can achieve a lot.
Lemrin: But what is it you’re trying to achieve? Here lies intent.
Lemrin: Without a mastery of intent, neither craft nor power can achieve anything.