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First off, everyone can use magic in this world, all nine races. No exceptions and this is not debatable. Magic has always existed as far as anyone knows and is part of everyone's daily life. Magic isn't special, or rare.
I'm going with a stamina basis of using magic. As you use it, it tires you out. As you become tired, it effects how powerful, and successful the magic is. If one is too tired and tries a powerful spell it could result in physical harm up to death.
With this stamina system, as one gets older you can become wiser in magic, but you start to lose stamina. Like an older person starts losing physical strength. I think this balances out that everyone has magic, and if everyone has magic then the oldest would be the strongest. I like the idea they might know it, but lack the stamina to actually use the magic. And a younger person would require training to use powerful spells.
A person is born with magical abilities. As a baby they might not have control of the magic and its usually harmless and random with simple basic spells. As they age they are trained to control the magic better. As teens they start learning magic specific to what the job they head into. A farmer will learn a different set of magic skills than a priest or a soldier.
In the past 100 years magic technology has improved, including things like magic engines. There are also other things, like light crystals and something new, communication crystals (though these are still highly unreliable) as the distances grow. There are universities and inventors who dabble in magic to create new spells and uses for crystals.
Depending on the spell it might require more than one person. For example, recharging a magic engine crystal could require as little as two to as many as twenty. However, everyone in the group must know the spell and how to use it.
Spells must be controlled as they are used. Its why magic crystals are so loved. Take a crystal light, a person can activate it and it lights up illuminating a room. If one used an illumination spell to light up a room it would be active only so long as the person who cast it controls it. The moment they stop controlling it, the spell would end and light would vanish.
There are some taboo areas of magic, like necromancy.
In the story no one cares if something is magical, or who uses what spell. There is no quest for some magical item either. Magic is simply another tool people use in their daily lives.
First off, everyone can use magic in this world, all nine races. No exceptions and this is not debatable. Magic has always existed as far as anyone knows and is part of everyone's daily life. Magic isn't special, or rare.
I'm going with a stamina basis of using magic. As you use it, it tires you out. As you become tired, it effects how powerful, and successful the magic is. If one is too tired and tries a powerful spell it could result in physical harm up to death.
With this stamina system, as one gets older you can become wiser in magic, but you start to lose stamina. Like an older person starts losing physical strength. I think this balances out that everyone has magic, and if everyone has magic then the oldest would be the strongest. I like the idea they might know it, but lack the stamina to actually use the magic. And a younger person would require training to use powerful spells.
A person is born with magical abilities. As a baby they might not have control of the magic and its usually harmless and random with simple basic spells. As they age they are trained to control the magic better. As teens they start learning magic specific to what the job they head into. A farmer will learn a different set of magic skills than a priest or a soldier.
In the past 100 years magic technology has improved, including things like magic engines. There are also other things, like light crystals and something new, communication crystals (though these are still highly unreliable) as the distances grow. There are universities and inventors who dabble in magic to create new spells and uses for crystals.
Depending on the spell it might require more than one person. For example, recharging a magic engine crystal could require as little as two to as many as twenty. However, everyone in the group must know the spell and how to use it.
Spells must be controlled as they are used. Its why magic crystals are so loved. Take a crystal light, a person can activate it and it lights up illuminating a room. If one used an illumination spell to light up a room it would be active only so long as the person who cast it controls it. The moment they stop controlling it, the spell would end and light would vanish.
There are some taboo areas of magic, like necromancy.
In the story no one cares if something is magical, or who uses what spell. There is no quest for some magical item either. Magic is simply another tool people use in their daily lives.
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