Mage of Chaos: Theory on Magic - pt.2

Though this is just a summary during Moordikiin's earlier years, he saw the future. However, he wasn't prepared for what the future would bring. And he paid little precaution to the eminent disaster his discoveries would bring.

Moordikiin’s Premise: During the past century or so, great strides have been made in the area of magic as Dilmoth predicted. No longer must a mage use his own body’s energy to create an envelope of time thus slowing energy to create matter, but he's able to use energy, time, and his mind in harmonic unison to harness the three into matter. The use of symbols has now become wide spread along with adjoining sign and speech. The symbols are based upon the original symbols of the individual gods and therefore imparting different powers and aspects of magic. In the beginning, symbols were unreliable, as Dilmoth claims, but through the years the materials from which the symbols are created and the drawing of the symbols themselves has increased their reliability thereby increasing their power. However, no symbol ever created by man is perfect and therefore can be un-made. Only those symbols created by the gods themselves are perfect and unbreakable except by another god, even if that were possible.

This refinement of symbolic recreation has been accomplished through several recent discoveries and some reverse logic on the part of myself and other magic users. With this done, magic users of today are able to tap into other hidden resources concerning both time and energy. Still, other mages are experimenting with power in order to lengthen the average life span and are even able to practice minor healing methods many thought were only within the ability of clerics. The next several decades will present some very exciting times within the mage community.

Mage of Chaos: Theory on Magic - pt.1

Though a giant in his time, Dilmoth's understanding of magic is flawed for many reasons. Nevertheless, the established the groundwork for the future which we hope comes to fruition in my lifetime.

Dilmoth’s Magic Premise: Magic, true magic, not the sleight of hand as seen through charlatans, is the ability of the mind to construct material objects out of raw energy. This is done by using the body’s own energy and subconscious mind to create an envelope of time to slow energy, thus forging it into matter. Of course, once this envelop of time dissipates, the matter returns to its natural form of pure energy. However, the use of the body’s energy is a direct reflection on the total life energy of the person. As energy is used, the body will age more quickly. This accounts for the shortened life span of the more powerful mages.

Creating the envelop of time is a long and involved process requiring deep concentration, a strong will, and steady nerves, because one slight error can have catastrophic results. Some of these problems have been recently solved through the use of symbols which focus one’s inner power in the creation of the envelope. However, these symbols are unreliable and create other problems with the focusing of energy. This wasn’t always the way, but due to the destruction and loss of much of our knowledge of magic during the Wizard Wars, we constantly seem to be reinventing the wheel concerning magic and its uses. There are efforts to recreate what we’ve lost, but the process is slow and tedious. Maybe, if all of the magic community works together, we can hope to solve many of these problems, but the future of magic is still unclear.