❰ despite the fact that this is an audio-only medium, adalia nods — that tracks with her experience, if you're born with magic trying to live without it is... unthinkable. like living without food, or air. the difference of course being plenty of people do survive without magic, but for adalia it would be like having an entire limb cut off. ❱
So more like a limb than a tool, then. That's about how I think of it, too.
Yes! It can take years of study, but wizards who devote themselves to accruing magical knowledge can be some of the most diversely talented mages alive. I only know so many spells, but I can... change them, or make them stronger, because I just... know how. Think of it like a switch I can see that no one taught magic would ever think to notice. Sorcerers sort of feel their spells, and cast them innately, making whatever changes they need at the moment they need them.
Wizards, on the other hand, know their spells as they learned them and that's that, with no ability to make changes to the formula. They cast them the same way every time. On the flip side, though, your average wizard will know more spells than your average sorcerer, because they can study all known spells and add them to their repertoire. When they specialize in specific schools of magic, they learn techniques that non-focused wizards and all sorcerers will never know, because they dedicate years to the study of these schools.
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So more like a limb than a tool, then. That's about how I think of it, too.
Yes! It can take years of study, but wizards who devote themselves to accruing magical knowledge can be some of the most diversely talented mages alive. I only know so many spells, but I can... change them, or make them stronger, because I just... know how. Think of it like a switch I can see that no one taught magic would ever think to notice. Sorcerers sort of feel their spells, and cast them innately, making whatever changes they need at the moment they need them.
Wizards, on the other hand, know their spells as they learned them and that's that, with no ability to make changes to the formula. They cast them the same way every time. On the flip side, though, your average wizard will know more spells than your average sorcerer, because they can study all known spells and add them to their repertoire. When they specialize in specific schools of magic, they learn techniques that non-focused wizards and all sorcerers will never know, because they dedicate years to the study of these schools.
Does any of that make sense...?