Talk:Magic

So are there rules to things that you cant do with magic? Like in harry potter you cant bring people back to life or create matter just the illusion of matter? I'm curious cuz Becca is a big magic user, she catches onto it pretty easily, teenage girls know how to get their minds to need something, we're naturally good at that :)

There are ultimately no limitations but some things are way more complex than others. Bringing someone back from the dead, for example, is really hard and basically only works if they've been dead for a fairly short while. If you recal Joshua did it in one of the novellas. You CAN create matter, but it is considered basically the hardest thing you can possibly do(Becca CAN'T do it, no arguments). I thnk Hunter manages to do it a grand total of once and he invented zero-point magic. Naomi never gets that far and she's considered more powerful than Hunter.

Signficantly easier than making matter is transforming it, turning one thing into another. There's simple transmutation(turning led into gold), and then more complicated stuff, like turning a broomstick into a sword. That's what Naomi is really good at.

You CAN create life with magic but again it is extremly difficult. Pay attention to the Hawk in The Next Progression. It also generally doesn't work out that well.

Anyway, Becca can be good, but not too good. Naomi was a kind of once-in-history level of mage that just doesn't happen real often.

I think Cilean and Naomi would be fun to have a conversation together, Cilean being one of the first people to learn magic as i recall you saying. and Cilean helps with teaching Becca magic. Hunter opens soda cans, Naomi turns books into birds and Cilean turns dudes into dogs what should becca be able to do?

Does MRPG magic overlap with Course Books magic? Is there anything one of these can't do which the other can? Do some spells exist only in MRPG and others only in the Course Books? Do psi phenomena count as magic in either?.