"75% recap, 25% original content. My life has become an episode of Street Fighter II V."

[poiuppx]

Okay, time for another recap fest. But never fear, kind readers; I actually have a little meat to go with the same old bones this time around. So stick with me here, I may actually keep your interest a little

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Re: magic?

[poiuppx]

In a short answer, anyone can. In a longer and more exact answer, it stems from the inner energy position I stated way back near the start of this forum. Anyone CAN learn it, just like technically speaking anyone can learn to be a Blademaster or Royal Crimson Guard or Shadow Assassin. But magic taps beyond just usage of the energy like one would use in the real world to endure a long run, or lift an extra-heavy load. It pulls forth the raw essence of the energy, either through-and-out, or out, of the mage. To be able to master this is a hell of a feat, to keep it up from spell to spell an even greater one. Sure, the payoff is usually big and flashy. Sure, all things made equal, one swordsman versus one mage would equal one dead swordsman. But mages run a much higher risk of tapping themselves out, or even killing themselves, by using too much energy. So anyone can learn it. But not everyone who can have any desire to for those self-same reasons. That said, there can be a genetic predisposition towards magery, or a certain form of magery. Look at Ameratsu's family or Iori's fire spells for proof of this.

Re: magic?

[thunderheavyarm]

Hey, what about Sorcerors? Those aren't necessarily genetic hand me downs. But they can channel the flows of magic equal to or better than a train magician! You gonna show any difference between the two?

Re: magic?

[poiuppx]

Well, given how for most spells mages don't have to go back to the well, so to speak, to read up on them nightly, you could make the case most mages already are sorcerors. Other than that, it's something of a case for 'some folks were just born to run'; some people, without it being in their genes, just have it in their blood to be excellent at something. Every bloodline starts somewhere... look at Ameratsu's family at the top of the chain, Malachi. He didn't have his roots in some ancient bloodline of powerful mages; he was just an excellent mage naturally, and then went on to work his arse off to become even better.