Magic
Elements of Magic
Fire Magic
Fire magic deals with fire and heat. It can create fire balls, fire shield, light fires, etc. It should be noted, that magic, albeit a lower level, is continually required to maintain a fire without a source of fuel, so even campfires and stoves that use fire magic to light them, usually use a type of fuel to maintain the fire. Fire magic can also heat things, like water in pipes, coats, or even houses. Heating requires less magic than creating fires.
Fire magic can be used to incinerate waste or other materials. Fire magic can incinerate any infections or diseases caused by bacteria or parasites. It can also incinerate sepsis, excess fluids, and sewage. Incineration typically uses a higher level of power than creating fire. Fire magic can also be used to create plasma, which also uses a higher level of power.
Healing magic is also under the domain of fire magic, as it is inverting the process of incineration caused by fire. Healing magic can repair the damage caused by diseases. Healing magic can encompass all forms of repairing tissue and organs damaged due to violence or accidents, even if a chunk of the body is severed or removed.
However, fire healing magic cannot repair or replace bone. It also cannot heal something that was never there in the first place. For example, if someone has their eye gouged out, fire healing magic can grow them a new eye, but if someone is born with only one eye, fire healing magic cannot give them the eye they are missing. Healing magic also cannot remove unwanted things lodged inside of the body, like an arrowhead, poisons, bad food, slivers, etc. Those things can only be removed by surgery, herbs, or natural processes. Fire magic similarly cannot abort or induce labor. Healing magic also cannot undo the natural affects of aging.
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Water Magic
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Water magic deals with the movement and form of water or water-based liquids. It can shoot bolts of water, or create water shields. It can help move water through pipes or up hills. This is mainly what it is used for in society at large. Water magic can also be used to summon or call rain clouds, but cannot be used to expel non-magical rain clouds.
While water bolts and water shields are created out of thin air, they usually dissipate back into thin air almost immediately upon impact, leaving only a thin layer of moisture. To create water and to maintain it, such as for purposes of drinking or bathing, the entire gem must be spent. One gallon of water is created per bolt of energy.
Water magic can change the pressure of water, allowing cutting by water streams. It can also manipulate pressure for the purpose of hydraulics in construction.
Water magic can also temporarily change the form or shape of water to do temporary transformations. For example, a water-magic user could sit or walk on a pool of water, or allow someone else to do the same. That user might also create a tool temporarily out of water, like a hammer. It is to be noted, that water instruments must use an already naturally occurring body of water, and cannot create this water as a user does with water bolts of shields.
Water magic is used in healing for the diffusing of herbs inside the body. Water magic can be used to perform medical tests. Water magic can also soothe pain associated with injuries and clean wounds. Water magic can also clean and purify internal organs and bodily fluids. It can also replace or create bodily fluids when they are lost, such as blood, however, this uses up the entire gem.
Water magic can be used to breathe underwater.
Wind Magic
Wind magic deals with the movement of gasses and the change in the pressure of gasses. Wind magic can be used to blow gusts of wind to knock things off course. Wind magic can also be used to speed up motion or movement in a singular direction. An example is making someone roll or run faster.
Wind magic is used for the movement of objects without touching them. It can be used to throw weaponry, close doors, or pick up and move other objects.
Wind magic can be used to create tornadoes or whirlwinds. However, this requires an excessive amount of power.
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Wind magic can be use to increase hearing range, as long as there is an open air pathway between the hearer and heard. Wind magic can also manipulate already existing sounds to change their frequency, pitch, or volume. Wind magic can also be used to play wind instruments without a physical player.
Wind magic can also be used for measurements, such as weight. It can be used to observe size, volume, and density. It can also be used to rapidly count small objects, such as the numbers of pages in a book, or amount of grains of wheat. However, in order to count or measure with wind magic, there must be an open-air pathway between the measurer and the object being measured. Measuring and weighing cannot be done by spells, and can only be done by skilled, intuitive users.
Sun Magic
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Sun magic deals with light and low level electrical impulses. Sun magic can be used to shine lights and create temporary visual illusions.
Sun magic can be used to light up silver plaques with information or images. These images, in accordance with the spell managing them, can be interacted with by the user. These images are limited by only showing images of things that are actually physically present somewhere else. Themagic cannot retain memory of images, but only interact with images of already physically present papers, items, scenery, or people.
Sun magic can be used to scan images, items, scenery, or people. It can also be used to scan and measure energy or light levels.
Sun magic can focus light to turn into lasers or heat things up. It can also alter light wave-lengths of already existing light to create infrared, ultraviolet, x-rays, etc. However light wave alteration can only be done by intuitive users of sun magic. Not much is known about the science of light wave alteration, so this ability is not exploited as much for non-visual light waves.
Sun magic can control low level electrical impulses. Sun magic can be used for temporary stuns. Sun magic can be used to provide low level, single or double action, electrical functions for magical technologies.
Earth Magic
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Earth magic deals with the movement and control of dirt, soil, stones, and minerals.
Earth magic can be used to rapidly dig through dirt, soil, and sand. While it cannot facilitate rapid digging through rock, it can speed up the drilling and breaking of rocks.
Earth magic can be used to rapidly reform dirt, soil, sand, and other loose forms of earth in various shapes. They can even form sharp edges that penetrate soft objects. These shapes, however, only last as long as magic is proactively applied to them. This does not necessarily mean they will immediately collapse once the magic is no longer applied but does mean that they will be subject to the normal laws of gravity and physics that apply to their particular material and the particular structure that was formed by the magic.
Earth magic cannot rapidly transform the shape of stone, but can be used to assist in carving and mining tools. Earth magic be facilitate the movement of one type of soil/rock across a different type of soil/rock. This is used both in travel and construction.
Earth magic can be used in the formation and control of minerals. It can temporarily increase or decrease the weight of stones, metals (not gold, tin, or lead), and bones by a factor of up to four. For example, if a stone weighs twenty pounds (9.07 kg), earth magic can temporarily decrease its weight to five pounds (2.27 kg) or increase its weight to eighty pounds (36.29 kg). Earth magic can also be used in the creation of dirt, soil, sand, rock, metal (not gold, tin, or lead), and bones. However to facilitate this creation, one must spend a grundsten with the voltage equivalent to the amount created.
Lunar Magic
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Lunar magic deals with transformation and defying the laws of matter. The main usage of lunar magic is with teleportation. Teleportation portals can be used for transporting objects any distance, as long as there is a receiving spell at the other end to open a receiving portal. Teleportation only teleports whole objects and does not teleport an object unless the entire object has passed through the portal.
Lunar magic can also perform short-distance teleportation without the need of a receiving spell. This is typically called "shifting," in order to differentiate from any-distance teleportation, which requires a receiving spell. Shifting is limited to distances of 24 feet. Only whole objects can be shifted. People or objects cannot be shifted into areas that do not have enough space. to contain them.
Certain substances, like gold or living tissue, cannot be shifted past. For instance, if an object is in a gold box, it cannot be shifted outside of the box. Also, a small object, like a knife, cannot be shifted into a living person's stomach but can be shifted into a dead body. Bronze and tin also limit shifting, not by curtailing it entirely, but by increasing the amount of power needed to shift the object.
Lunar magic can also allow an object or person to phase through solid, liquid, or gaseous blocks of matter. A person or object cannot phase through plasma. The entire object or person must phase through the matter. The phasing does not end until the entire object has passed through. If there is not enough power to phase through the entire block, the phasing will not take place. For instance, if a person tries to phase into the ground, the magic will not allow it. But if a person tries to phase through the ground, and there is a secret basement, the phasing can occur, even if the caster was unaware of the secret basement.
Lunar magic deals with dimensional changes. For example. it can take the mouth of a sack, and stretch it larger than the sack actually is. It can alter a person's size, length of hair, or make one hand bigger than the other. It can make an object so thin that it becomes a knife. It is to be noted though, that the greater the distortion of the true dimension, the larger the amount of energy needed. These changes are temporary.
Lunar magic also deals with transformation. You can transform someone into another person or animal, or an inanimate object into another inanimate object. You cannot transform a living thing into an inanimate object, or vice versa. When transformation occurs, you cannot give an object a function it does not already possess, or take away a function it does possess. For example, you cannot transform a person into a bird. You can transform them into a bird with arms instead of wings, and even make those arms look like wings. However, that person will not be capable of flight. Another example: if you transform an animal with gills into one without gills, that animal will still have gills, and still be able to breathe underwater. Likewise with inanimate objects. You can transform a chair with four legs and a cushion into a bed with four legs and a mattress. But you cannot transform a three-legged stool into a bed with four legs and a mattress. It would instead be a three-legged bed-stand without a mattress. You could take a branch with leaves at the end, and transform it into a broom, but you cannot take a broom and transform it into a knife. You can, however, take a broken broomstick, and turn it into a knife. Transformations only last as long as the spell says, or the energy causing the transformation lasts.
Transformation can also integrate what is sometimes called cosmetic transformation or puppetting. This can integrate a cosmetic change, without giving the object additional function. For example, someone could make a rabbit head with their hand, the same way a non-magic person could make a hand version of a rabbit head with their hand as well. This rabbit head the lunar magic user makes could appear as a rabbit head, but still would only have the function of the traditional hand rabbit. The magic rabbit head's motion would be limited to the traditional motions of the hand. Puppetting can blur lines between living to inanimate object transformation in this way and is capable of transforming entire persons or creatures to appear as another object without giving them additional functions or taking away functions. Puppetting can only be performed if a person or creature transformed is purposefully acting like the puppetted creature or object. Puppetting can only be performed by intuitive lunar magic users.
Lunar magic can also permanently alter an object through fusion. This requires the entire gem and a part to fuse. For example, if someone is born with only one eye, they can grow a second eye, by taking someone else's eye and the blood vessel, nerve, and other connectors to the eye, as well as a manesten, and performing a spell to fuse the detached eye to the person with only one eye. The manesten would be consumed in the process.
Nature Magic
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Nature magic deals with the growing and manipulation of plants. Nature magic can grow plants rapidly, and increase their yield. This applies specifically to non-wood plants. Nature magic is most commonly used in agriculture.
When nature magic is used for the rapid growing of plants, no water, soil, or nutrients are needed. This means that the substance needed for the plants to grow is being created out of nothing, and therefore rapid growth does not strip the soil of nutrients. When nature magic is used to increase yield, the plants only take the amount of nutrients, water, and soil that the plant would need for normal growth. It is to be noted that when nature magic is used to grow agriculture more rapidly or increase yield, the plants have the optimal level of nutrients they would otherwise be getting in that location under those circumstances.
Nature magic can only perform rapid growth for non-wood plants. It can increase the yield of fruits, nuts, flowers, etc. on wood-based plants. In order to rapidly grow a wood-based plant, a natursten must be spent. One bolt of natursten produces a cubic foot of hardwood growth and two cubic feet of softwood growth.
Nature magic can cause plants to move. It can also cause plants to grow or retract. It can grow plants, but it cannot cause the growth to be reversed past a certain amount (no more than 3 feet of reversing the growing process). However, undesired plants or plant lengths can also be lopped off and regrown to the desired amount. Nature magic cannot move wood quickly, but only very slowly. It can only change the positioning of wood, and not grow the wood.
Nature magic can be used to breed plants together that would not otherwise breed. This allows unique plant combinations to occur, or to develop certain herbs or spices. These interbred plants are not necessarily fertile. The fertility of crossbred plants depends on their natural ability to be cross-bred.
Nature magic can help decrease the lethality of poisons, toxins, or diseases. However, this only applies to those with natural nature magic, like ents and dryads, and people with their blood switched out. It does not apply to those that absorb nature magic from the environment and then use it.
Nature magic cannot produce toxins or poisons without the plants that grow those toxins or poisons. Nature magic cannot create plants without seeds or parts of other plants. Nature magic cannot bring dead plants back to life but can revive almost dead plants.
Ice Magic
Ice magic deals with ice, snow, and freezing. Ice magic can send ice bolts or raise ice shields. It can cool or freeze people, items, or areas. It is most commonly used for the freezing and refrigeration of food.
Ice magic is used to freeze or cool substances. More energy is required for large areas or quantities, and for substances that have colder freezing temperatures.
Ice magic requires a substance to manufacture ice. In cases of ice bolts or shields, it is actually pulling water from the air, or temporarily freezing the air. An issten can be spent to manufacture ice. It will manufacture one gallon of ice per bolt of energy, and that ice can be made out of water or air.
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Lightning Magic
Lightning magic deals with electrical power. Lightning magic can be used for stunning people, or creating energy shields that block fire, plasma, and lightning attacks.
Lightning magic can also be used to power small or large electrical systems.
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