LogFAQs > #878583210

If you really think about it, electricity is really a form of magic. It's a form of magic that is logical and we understand, but it is a force that is around us (once we learned how to generate and transport it) that we can use to cause many things to happen.

So really if you switched technology for magic, you would just be changing the base source of magic.

In this case electricity is out, and a general pool of power that individuals can directly interact with is in.

I would say that laws still apply to magic use, and that every individual has a different capacity (or capacitor) for holding magical energy within themselves and shaping it.

On top of that, every individual has different potential as far as how complex magic they can create (Their ability to use and shape the magic).

Now simple spells could be practiced and learned over time by anyone with enough capacity to cast them. In addition, spells can be created in advance needing only a spark of magic to activate or run them, allowing average people to use items (like cars for instance, or a phone system, or an elevator etc). This would allow most of the "technological" advances and items we currently use today, to still work with a new magic based system.

The "dangerous" individuals would be the genius or near genius with high capacity for magical storage, but they would be rare. Such individuals would not only be able to store large amounts of magical energy, but would have the mental capacity to quickly create their own spells and shape that magical energy in a way they desire.

Now, it makes sense that ways of storing magical energy could be created (Crystals and what not) that allowed those with a small capacity for storage, but a high ability to shape magical energy, to use a larger pool of energy. This would allow many more people to create complicated spells, or things like cars, planes etc for the masses to use.

Really though, look at electricity from the viewpoint of someone from the distant past, wouldn't it look like magical energy to them, with defined laws and requirements to use it?

So, in a way, doesn't magic really exist already?
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