## The Magic of Aeria

* Author: u/Sagebrysh  *Rank 7 Pragmatist**
* URL: http://talesfromaeria.tumblr.com/post/124367572852/magic
* Score: 6

* Created: 2015-07-18T01:04:25

### Post:

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### Comments:

> **u/Sagebrysh** [+2]  *Rank 7 Pragmatist* (3 minutes later)
> 
> Most of the background information on Aeria will come from Aeria itself in the form of in-world texts and things of that nature. The inhabitants of Aeria have a specific perspective on their world, which may not perfectly map to the world's true nature. 
> 
> I'm curious what sort of munchkining this magic system will allow. Its very powerful and its *known* to be very powerful, but there are probably still 'cheeky' uses for it that I haven't thought of.

> **u/redrach** [+2]  (8 hours later)
> 
> This is probably minor, but I dislike how the term magic is being used to represent both the 'motes' that are manipulated to perform spells and the spellcraft itself. I would have used 'mana' instead.

>> **u/Sagebrysh** [+1]  *Rank 7 Pragmatist* (a day later)
>> 
>> I can see how it might be grammatically confusing, I'll try to come up with a name for the motes themselves, but I really dislike using 'mana' because of the cultural weight already attached to the word. People have specific ideas relating to mana, and I don't want how they view Aeria's magic system to be handicapped by use of terms that occur in other works of fiction. At the same time, I don't want to use something completely out there, I could make up any word that I wanted for it, but doing this too often clouds reading clarity once you go past a certain threshold, wherein the characters just start talking in what sounds like technobabble gibberish. I dunno, any suggestions?

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