5 MAGICAL MYTHS DEBUNKED BY SCIENCE, LOGIC AND HISTORY
1. Magic Comes From Demons
Wrong. Scientists freed from religious doctrine observe that magic is simply the mind acting a muscle that cannot be observed. It is will made incarnate. The source of magic is one's one mental capacities for imagination, will and power. As a child may kick a ball, so may a mage shape the world. It is a mental skill not unlike memory or the imagination of an artist.
2. All Magic is Dark Magic
Wrong. Scholars, magicians and scientists have observed the effects of magic and found them to have no ethical quandaries more than any other tool. A sword may free a victim from their binds, and do good, or it may slay a babe in their bed, and do evil. Thus is magic.
3. Magicians Can Do Anything They Want!
Especially wrong. Most gifted humans work a narrow set of effects with their magic. From our observation, it seems that there are various schools of magical effects that oftentimes limit how magicians may shape the world:
Weather-Binding, or Energetical Engulfism: Magicians of this talent shape and control raw elemental energy. We observed Energetics to fix holes in dams, or snuff out forest fires.
Movementicals, or Gyrogynkeneticism: Movementicals control the position of physical matter or shield it altogether. We observed them to lift the roof's of ruined buildings back onto its structure, or slow the fall of a child from their father's horse as to cause no injury.
Formasculars, or Geometricalculism: Formasculars use their gifts to reshape or create things. While this sounds quite terrifying, the effects are temporary and easily undone. Uses of this were observed to summon water in a drought ridden area, or temporarily change stone into gold to free a man from his cruel debtors.
Fortunostrists, or Occalism: Fortunostrists may glimpse somebody's fortune through cards or glass balls. In observation, we saw them help a young man aid his mother when bandits attempted to kidnap her.
Tyranisists, or Entroplism: These are the only kind of magician that we did not encounter or find evidence of, save from in ancient stories. Tales of talking to or raising the dead are quite unlikely.
4. Magicians Could Destroy the World in a Snap of Their Fingers
All capable of magic have limits, just as you yourself have limits when solving puzzles or imagining an object. The narrow effects of their magic, as well as the temporary nature of them, render magicians about as dangerous as a trained soldier.
5. Magic is Unfair, I Could Never Do It!
Wrong. With training and a talented instructor, most people can learn some form of magic within a year.
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