An Overview of Magic: Difference between revisions

Magic is really the center of NSA, and the source of its life and vitality, as well as the evil that crawls from its depths. All of the most powerful artifacts of the NaAT, the Math Stick, Strength stick, Cecilia’s Notebook (the source of much of the information in this short overview of magic), even the diamonds themselves, are at their core, magical. The same can be said of evil artifacts and creatures as well, Zer0 himself thrives on the magic of null (nothingness, see below). The point of this, however, is to show that Magic is the core of everything, be it evil or good, magic is indifferent, it is simply a force. One of the laws of the universe, just like gravity and physics. It is not supernatural, good or bad, it just is. The danger of magic however, is the power it offers. As the old saying goes, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Magic is no exception. Every mage walks a fine line between using their powers for good and serving others or using it to take what they wish, indulge their desires, and gain more power.

Therefore, to any who are considering walking the path of the Magi: You are taking a very great risk. It is all too easy to fall to Zer0 in an attempt to further yourself, or to harm yourself by attempting to use more magic than you can, or to fall victim to any of the many other dangers magic creates. Make sure you are strong-willed, with good friends and allies who will help you along your way. But if you can use the magic you wield justly, the good you will be able to accomplish will be great. Now that you have been fairly warned, let us begin.

~ Elemental Magic-The most common kind of magic, and the easiest to use, is elemental magic. There are several sub-types of elemental magic, but they all have one thing in common: They all represent an aspect of the earth. Here are the 4 most common elemental magics (there are other, more rare, elemental magics, but they are momentarily irrelevant):

=== Pyromancy ===

=== Aquamancy ===

=== Terramancy ===

=== Aeromancy ===

People with an Aura of this color will be inclined heavily towards pyromancy, and will be terrible at aquamancy and terramancy. Other types neither suffer nor benefit.

People with an aura of this color will be more inclined to terramancy or Life Magic, and will be generally unsuccessful if trying to use Null or Pyromancy.

This color will often mean an affinity for mind magic and artificery, and a person with an aura of purely this color will most likely be unable to effectively cast anything but the most basic of spells of other types, but will be wonderfully adept at mind magic and the study of magical items.

A person with this kind of Aura has an affinity for Null. A person with an aura consisting mostly of this color will be most likely unable to use Life Magic.

Another rare aura, someone with white in their aura will not be particularly good or bad at any type, but will have a knack for High Magic. It is still difficult for them, but they more easily deal with intensely magical artifacts and powerful spells, and can often times channel more power than would normally be safe.

A person with this Aura will be excellent with creation magic, but unable to use Null.

This person will be naturally gifted in Artificery.

People with this aura connect easily to dragons, and oftentimes make some of the best riders.

Someone with a gray aura will be naturally inclined to Artificery, particularly concerning the area of Lore.

 

This aura is so rare that only the mystical Historian has it.  It can only be explained as a combination of Topaz, Dark Blue, Red-Gold, and White. (FFAE lore)

In FFAE and its universe of role plays, magic was different. Most spells are made up by the players themselves. But the FC magic pretty much fell out of use. Soon after the switch to Teams the NSA diamonds were found to be in the possession of the Communist Revolution chat. Documents were also found or declassified about the testing of the diamonds under scientific means. Most concluded that a lag machine could be made from them, but the jewels would be corrupted. Soon after the diamonds passed away into dust by some unknown force. It seems that all the diamonds disappeared at the same time. People have theorized that this meant the end of Zer0.