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dressrobes2012-10-09 04:10 pm
nailsandglass) wrote in dressrobes2012-10-09 04:10 pm
IC Prospective: Matilda Wormwood
Character: Matilda Wormwood
Mun: Emely
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What is it about words that gives them so much weight when it comes to magic? I've been doing some reading and perhaps I am simply looking in the wrong places but I have yet to find anything that directly addresses this in any of the theory books I've picked up from the library.
Wordless magic is something we're all capable of, yet assigning a phrase to each spell makes it significantly easier. Why is that? What was it that came first, the word or the spell itself, and if the latter who thought up that saying something might make it easier? The more I think about it the more I can't help but feel it's a trick of the mind. By concentrating on a word that expounds the effect we desire, the more focused we become on said desire and isn't that what really brings about the magic?
If that is the case it really brings into question the necessity of even wands.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?
((ooc; pardon the icons, I mostly only have ones of her when she is 6 but I am slowly gathering more))
Mun: Emely
Plot related: N
What is it about words that gives them so much weight when it comes to magic? I've been doing some reading and perhaps I am simply looking in the wrong places but I have yet to find anything that directly addresses this in any of the theory books I've picked up from the library.
Wordless magic is something we're all capable of, yet assigning a phrase to each spell makes it significantly easier. Why is that? What was it that came first, the word or the spell itself, and if the latter who thought up that saying something might make it easier? The more I think about it the more I can't help but feel it's a trick of the mind. By concentrating on a word that expounds the effect we desire, the more focused we become on said desire and isn't that what really brings about the magic?
If that is the case it really brings into question the necessity of even wands.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?
((ooc; pardon the icons, I mostly only have ones of her when she is 6 but I am slowly gathering more))
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This is probably why potions are so much easier than incantations. Potion brewing transcends language, when you think about it.
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I never quite thought about potions that way, though you are absolutely right. It is almost like math in that sentiment, and in a way beautiful because of it.