What is magic?

>>46449044

The ability to temporarily or permanently interact and alter with the underlying conceptual energies of the infinite multiverse.

A hearthstone clone.

>>46449044
A miserable little pile of mana!

>>46449044
An effect where the cause is poorly understood

>>46449044
>What is magic
Caster don't leave me
Don't leave me
No more

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>>46449044
Learn to use the internet.

>>46449044
It's friendship.

>>46449044
Something that indistinguishable from sufficiently advanced technology.

>>46449044
The gathering.

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The science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.

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That which frees you from having to explain shit.

>>46449044
A lie so convincing that the universe conforms to it.

>>46449074
I like this definition

>>46449111
Perhaps this can be said of all fantasies.

>>46449044
Any force or form of manipulation that follows laws outside of the ones perceptible as making reality as we know it

But it's a meta-definition

In the end, without any specific characteristic that varies from setting to setting, magic can be reduced up to any kind of poorly understood mechanics

>>46449044
A Duel Masters ripoff

>>46449044
Baby don't hurt me.

>>46449074
/thread
Everybody go home now.

When you ain't have gotta explain shit.

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>>46453940

GOO GOO MAGIC MISSILE!

>>46449074
>the ability to fuck with stuff

>>46454449
That's bardic magic.

>>46449044

The hability to pull absurd shit out of your ass with no explanation needed

> Merchant: NIGGER! YOU JUST CAST A MOTHERFUCKING FIREBALL AT A THE BARN! HOW THE FUCK YOU DID THAT

> Mage: magic bitch i ain't gotta explain shit

> *barn erupts into ball of flames*

> Merchant: OH SHIT... OH GOD, JESUS. JESUS. JESUS. LORD. JE ZUS. JESUS. OHHHH. JESUS CHRIST. OHH. OHHHH. JESUS. JESUS. OHH. LAWWD. REEKRIS. LAWD. JESUS. OHHHHH SHHHIIT. WOOOOOOWWOOOOWWWW.

> *barn explodes*

> Merchant: DAT WAS AWESOME! DAT WAS AWESOME RIGHT THERE! NAAAWWWW DAW! WOOOOWWWW SHHHIIIT!

> *notices tunic is on fire*

> Merchant: OH! OHHHH SHIT! OWWWW! OOHH LAWD! JESUS! OH GEZUS! GET DA WATER NIGGAH! JESUS CHRRISST! LAWD HAVE MERCY! GETT DAH WATAH NIGGUH! IT GOIN DOWN! AAAAWWWW DEM MOTHERFUCKING BOOTLEG MAGES SHIT!

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Heresy OP, magic is heresy

>>46449044
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsaKaRGjnxE
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>>46454582

10/10

That's the only appropriate reaction for when shit catches on fire.

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>>46449044
“The study of magic is not a science, it is not an art, and it is not a religion. Magic is a craft. When we do magic, we do not wish and we do not pray. We rely upon our will and our knowledge and our skill to make a specific change to the world.
“This is not to say that we understand magic, in the sense that physicists understand why subatomic particles do whatever it is that they do. Or perhaps they don’t understand that yet, I can never remember. In any case, we do not and cannot understand what magic is, or where it comes from, any more than a carpenter understands why a tree grows. He doesn’t have to. He works with what he has.
“With the caveat that it is much more difficult and much more dangerous and much more interesting to be a magician than it is to be a carpenter.”
“Final thought before you go.” March raised his voice over the shuffling clatter. “I urge you again to think of this as a purely practical course, with a minimum of theory. If you find yourself becoming curious about the nature and origins of the magical powers you are slowly and very, very painfully cultivating, remember this famous anecdote about the English philosopher Bertrand Russell.

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>>46454832

“Russell once gave a public lecture on the structure of the universe. Afterward he was approached by a woman who told him that he was a very clever young man but much mistaken in his thinking, because everyone knew that the world was flat and sat on the back of a turtle.
“When Russell asked her what the turtle was standing on, she replied, ‘You’re very clever, young man, very clever. But it’s turtles all the way down!’
“The woman was wrong about the world, of course, but she would have been quite right if she’d been talking about magic. Great mages have wasted their lives trying to get at the root of magic. It is a futile pursuit, not much fun and occasionally quite hazardous. Because the farther down you go, the bigger and scalier the turtles get, with sharper and sharper beaks. Until eventually they start looking less like turtles and more like dragons."
~Lev Grossman, the Magicians.

>>46454844
I was physically angry after reading the Magicians, and thrown my book into a fire.

This is the single most nihilistic piece of shit any human has ever written about magic.

>>46449044
Nerd bullshit, always go full melee

>>46449044
Something that exists in a young girl's heart.

The answer to this question any many more are here:

http://ia601503.us.archive.org/12/items/TheWorksOfBrettNortje/WorksForSite.pdf

>>46454905
I found it utterly hilarious.

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>>46455076

>>46454844
>“The woman was wrong about the world, of course, but she would have been quite right if she’d been talking about magic.

Wait, so it's all turtle powered? Cowabunga