I could write a whole other post about what we call “fantasy magic” and where we believe it could exist, but our thoughts are not nearly organised enough.
Fantasy magic is exactly what it says on the tin, the kind of magic you see in videogames or fantasy novels. Spells, fireballs, teleportation, transformation. We don’t have that magic, but we want to have it, we want to build it.
There’s a general belief that magic works better in places where people believe in magic more, or at times when people believed in magic more. a belief held mostly by people in low magic times and places about places they assumed have or had more magic.
But if you study old magic, a lot of it was very similar to the kind we do today. Manipulating weather, cursing people with bad luck or blessing them with good, propitiating good fortune. There are people who summoded giant scorpions and like, but a lot of it is way more mundane.
There might be a place in the world that’s isoalted from the ever pervasive materialism that we inheritted from the greeks. Remote places where people might be performing unbelievable feats and astounding their local community who all believe in these feats. And they could not do it here, but also they wouldn’t have read all the fantasy novels or played the jrpgs, they wouldn’t dream of casting a fireball or a cloud of miasma. Or maybe they would. these are hypothetical people we’re talking about of course.
the question is, in our world, in our reality, how do we nudge the window wider. if belief is enough, or if it isn’t enough. How do we make fantasy magic more real, a little bit at a time? That’s part of our mission.
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