How does magic work?

>>48654263
Depends of the setting

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Read 'The Golden Bough' by Sir James George Frazer. It's an anthrological book from the 1920s that has hundreds of examples of real world magical traditions. As a bonus, it's written in an extremely condescending British Empire style.

>>48654443
>anthrological

Herp, *anthropological

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It opens a gateway to the galactic nexus whereupon tapping into the power of the Xteenth hell-dimensions calling forth the rage of the out god X'thelfuriath channels the cosmic energy of the astral planes into tangible phenomena within this frail physical reality! Every spell dragging our corporeal realm closer and closer to insalvagable annihilation!

But to the casters it's just some pretty old words and a little dance

>>48654263
You become a living channel for the the Aether. A vessel through which it can be wrought, shaped by your own desires.

Sorcery works in much the same way but with the Void

>>48654263
Magic is science under a different name, usually the science pertaining to something that exists without modern interpretations of science. As such, "Magic," is separate from "Physics," but both are still metaphysics.

>>48654263

However you want it to because magic doesn't exist.

>>48654443
just make sure you read and and don't just read the wiki article about it like Damon Lindelof did for Prometheus

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