$Magic$

Magic is the core of all fantasy.

The world is born from ideas, not mere symbols, from the actualization of philosophy. When a thought becomes strong enough, focused enough, or shared by many, it takes root in the World of Forms, manifesting across the Veil. Magic is not external... it is inherent. Every class becomes a lens through which a type of will is shaped and expressed.

What Is Magic?

The will of the caster manifesting into the world.

There are many different ways to express magic, and that is key to understanding it. Magic is expression. Magic is actualization of ideas. Magic is materialization of will.

When someone wants to exert control, express his will, or create his ideas, magic is the actualization of that will.

How can someone exert this will? There are many ways: Music can affect listeners and change feelings. Hammer and fire can alter metals into tools and weapons, and even art. Words can declare war, start a vow of unity, or hurt as much as knives in the back. To get married you are just declared married, but that changes your reality immensely. These are no different from magic. This is just real magic.

In fantasy worlds, magic is not a system of external laws, but the manifestation of inner truths. Magic is a force through which will, intention, and expression become real. It is not conjured, it is released. Shaped from the metaphysical essence of the caster, Magic is the consequence of believing so deeply, so completely, that reality must yield. We use fantasy to immensely explore the importance of this will expressed. Magic is not an external energy source but a metaphysical reflection of the self, of society, of dreams and fears, given material consequence.

Wizards

Wizards explore the importance of the will expressed in words, imposing this will even over nature.

Wizards study the rules by which it manifest, and develop confidence in their will as they understand the world and themselves further. Still, study is needed to understand the underlying connections of the will of all beings, so your will doesn't conflict with the general "vibe" (the wave), so your will manifests more effectively.

• Magic through language and knowledge.
• Will is channeled through studied formulas, ancient runes, and conceptual alignment with reality's underlying script.
• They seek truth through understanding and impose change through precision.

Bards

Bards explore the power of music to change the world. The will is expressed by melodies and primal beauty that affects in many subtle ways.

• Magic through music, story, and performance.
• They wield will by moving others: emotionally, spiritually, or rhythmically.
• Beauty, in its purest form, alters the world.

Warlocks

Warlocks take power from sacrifice, manifesting into contracts with beings of great power. By these Deals they we take contracts as magic bounds and responsibilities. They express their will as an exchange for something valuable. We can use Warlocks to analyze systems like capitalism and the flux of power.

• Magic through agreement, debt, and power exchange.
• They explore the philosophical nature of power dynamics
• How surrendering part of one’s will can paradoxically strengthen it.

Paladins

The Sacred Oath

Paladins have such a strong believe and will manifested into their believes and goals that it empowers them. Paladins explore transcendence in oaths and promises, expressing the will as commitment to a cause or purpose. They can access something so sacred as an ideal, independently of the wills of the gods. Or they can express their will over the world through deeds.

• Magic through promises, values, and commitment.
• Their will is transcendent, rooted in unwavering belief.
• Their power stems from living a truth so deeply that the world cannot ignore it.

Clerics

Faith

Clerics have a collective will, expressing in their faith or religion. This collective will manifests in their gods becoming real, birthing from the collective subconscious. Gods, therefore, are manifestations of collective will and believe, and true believers can perceive them by linking to that unconscious of the collective, but unbelievers cannot interact as they are not linked, they do not define the gods.

The magic of clerics is a curious though. They conduct their will through the will of their gods. They have faith. And their faith claims will.

• Magic through devotion and shared belief.
• They do not prove their gods; they believe so fiercely that belief itself manifests power.
• Collective will becomes deity; gods are belief crystallized.

Sorcerers

The Raw Will

Sorcerers just have a will naturally in tune with a source of power. Pure access and expression of will without language or mediators. They can do subtle alterations that magnify into butterfly effects and fractal retro-feeds that manifest in great effects.

• Magic through innate force, without intermediaries.
• Their will is instinctual, fractal, and elemental. They change the world simply because they are.

Monks

Monk have their will to live focused on themselves. The flow of perfection through introspection. Free flow of will through the physical and transcendent spirit. Meditation and loss of self only make the will more primal and pure, but they still exert their will.

• Magic through discipline, introspection, and motion.
• They harmonize their will with the Tao of existence: unbound, self-contained, radiant.

Druids

Druids are deeply attuned to the will of nature and they express their magic to be part of this great system and to provide care and protection to it. They express the will to live. Life itself, and harmony, as a sublimation of the will of the druid to their surroundings.

• Magic through alignment with life’s natural flow.
• Their will does not impose, but merge. They act not to change nature, but to remember it.

Barbarians

The Rage of Will

Barbarians take strength from rage, which is a pure expression of emotions. Barbarians have explosions of will so strong it alters the physical world around them, so they become immune to the damage it would bring.

• Magic through emotion and instinct.
• Rage is their conduit—a primordial force that shapes their body and destiny.
• Their will is loud, red, and honest.

Fighters & Rogues – The Mundane Miracles

Fighters and rogues are capable of extraordinary things from their subtle ways to exercise their will and imposing this will over foes, by strength or subterfuge.

• Magic through practice, focus, and precision.
• Though often called "non-magical," their feats bend physics and fate through honed will.
• The rogue disappears because they intend to. The fighter strikes true because nothing else matters.

Cultural Implications

• Magic is not rare; what is rare is clarity of will.
• Magic changes the world in subtle ways: through ritual, through art, through law, through silence.
• A child’s wish, a mother’s prayer, a tyrant’s decree... all carry magical weight.

Philosophical Questions

• Whose will reshapes the world? and why?
• Can multiple conflicting wills coexist in one space?
• What happens when a powerful collective belief begins to falter?
• Is magic ethical when it overrides consent?