thunderproof: (ϟ|sixty  sixth.)
𝒂𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂, 𝒏𝒐. ([personal profile] thunderproof) wrote in [community profile] therookery2018-03-12 05:45 pm

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FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Adalia ([personal profile] thunderproof
RECIPIENT: Errybody with a sending crystal
WHAT: What's up with your mages, guys?
WHEN: Drakonis 12
WHERE: Kirkwall
NOTES: N/A


I have a question for the native mages among us, if you all don't mind!

adalia sounds inquisitive, curious, sort of sing-songy — she's been pondering this for a while, both in general and today specifically.

Would you consider magic something you are, something you have, or something you do? A combination of those? All three? Something I haven't yet considered?

a sound of shifting fabric as she sits up on her bed.

See, I would consider myself magic, innately. I'm a sorcerer where I'm from — we have magic in our blood. I would be considered a mage by Thedosian standards, but to me "mage" is a very broad word. Anyone who does magic could be considered a mage where I'm from, and then there are breakdowns within the broader "mage" classification — there are sorcerers, who are magic innately; wizards, who learn magic through study; warlocks, who are granted power by others — not to mention bards, and those who are given access to divine magics for worshiping their deities.

All of these different classes of mage approach magic in a different way. What is your relationship to magic? Is it part of you, or is it merely a tool? I'm curious.
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[personal profile] aceso 2018-03-13 01:12 am (UTC)(link)
To me, I have magic, and I have a hard time picturing myself without it. It is a part of me, yes.

It is interesting to hear of the different ways those in your world come to have magic. It can be learned without having it be a part of you from the start?
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[personal profile] aceso 2018-03-13 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ She laughs softly. ]

Yes, I follow you. It is different for us. We are sort of... in between a sorcerer and a wizard. We are all capable of magic, and indeed, we first discover we are mages by accidentally casting a spell. But we have no control until we learn it. We learn to cast the spell the correct way, with the right amount of mana. And there are many different branches of magic. Some prefer to focus on a few over others. And we have specializations, of course, which are perhaps like your schools of magic? What are some of them, if you do not mind my asking?

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[personal profile] gatheringstorm 2018-03-13 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
It's something I am, yeah. I was born with it, it's not something I can get rid of even if I wanted to...and I don't. It sounds like you're our kind of mage, the innate type.

...bards, huh? Here, that has nothing to do with magic. It's all part of the Orlesian court and all that politicking. What a mess. But any bards who can co magic would be considered mages first and foremost. Trust me, Thedas will never let you forget what you are.
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[personal profile] gatheringstorm 2018-03-13 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
Bards have nothing to do with the Fade here, it's more of a rogue's calling. Sure, they can sing and play an instrument...but they're also spies, assassins, whatever their boss needs them to be. I can't say more than that; as far as I know, there haven't been qunari bards.

[Pause.]

...sure. I wasn't raised with any Chantry propaganda, so I wasn't taught to hate myself in that sense. But when you see the fear and resentment in people's eyes, it's impossible for it not to affect you at all. Especially if it comes from someone you care about.

But no, I still wouldn't get rid of it. All that shit makes me want to make something of myself, just to spite the assholes who try to cage me.
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aestivation: ([ white - attentive regard ])

[personal profile] aestivation 2018-03-13 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
It would be reductive, however true in a sense, to say that I had been born with magic.

There was a time before; there has been a time after. As a child, I wouldn't have been considered a mage.

[ now is more often a matter of debate ]

That child is as much a piece of me. It's often forgotten, by those who would see magic before man.
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[personal profile] el_tybs 2018-03-13 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
That... is an interesting question. [Not one he was expecting, though he supposes it is fair that it has surfaced after certain circumstances.]

I would say that it's a combination of all three? Magic is a part of me, I use it, it's a skill. It's just as defining as saying I'm Fereldan, it's what I am. I don't introduce myself with it though as it's only a part of me, not the only me.

Well we don't have sorcerers or wizards, but mage is still a pretty broad spectrum here as well; it gets broken down to a degree. For instance I'm a Spirit Healer.

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[personal profile] ipseite 2018-03-13 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
I am not of Thedas—so perhaps my answer is unnecessary!—but you raise a point I have found interesting myself, a point of difference. It's my understanding that here, magic is a thing innate; regardless of one's particular relationship with that inherent magic, one is born with or without, and cannot become one from the other. In Sulleciel, this is not so; one cannot do magic without learning magic.

No gift to be born with, but a skill to be taught. One might have more or less knack—as some will always have a tin ear, no matter the dedication of their music tutor—but no different in nature to any other skill that one might study, or not study. Were I to set magic aside, my prior practise of it would leave little mark upon me; yet I would be called witch still, for I am known to have been.

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[personal profile] faithlikeaseed 2018-03-13 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
[He's been listening to the other responses before pitching in, for once, busy with small mindless tasks around his quarters that nevertheless aren't really compatible with sitting down and talking.

It's all very interesting.
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I am a mage, as much as I'm an elf, but my magic's a gift from the Maker. Though it's been a part of my life so long I can't imagine who I'd be otherwise, even though I remember a time I didn't have it.

[Curious, now.] What do your gods ask of those they give magic to?

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[personal profile] mal_adjusted 2018-03-13 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I am magic. Every part of me is mixed up in using magic, studying magic, and ... well, using magic as art and seeing art as magic.

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[personal profile] sunshinethroughgrey 2018-03-13 03:01 pm (UTC)(link)
"My magic will serve that which is best in me, not that which is most base". That is always how I have seen as my magic. My magic is a reflection of all the good I can do.

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[personal profile] overharrowed 2018-03-13 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm curious; for you, what is the difference between having magic and being magic? In the sense we're discussing, it seems to me to be something of a fine distinction, but obviously one with meaning.

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[personal profile] altusimperius 2018-03-13 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It's my birthright. I'm defined by it.

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[personal profile] justice_is_blond 2018-03-13 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I consider magic as something I am... and generally Thedas does the same back. If we were not mages, we would not have been locked in Circles. They didn't care about any other part of us, and many still do not.

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[personal profile] tar_minyatur 2018-03-14 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
How goes the research, Adalia? I can talk more about my folk, if you like, although I'm not entirely sure how things translate across. And I'm an oddity anyway, as you know.