Magic

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These are experimental changes to the Legends magic system. This is a work in progress, so expect inconsistencies.

Interesting resources for traditional magic terminology. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Magic - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_magic#Etymology

Very thematic. - http://hem.bredband.net/arenamontanus/mage.html

The concept of a "Paradigm" of magic is the same as a Magic Theme, and supposedly there are game mechanics to help a player define his paradigm. However, the other terms cross the line between a game system and a game world. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mage:_The_Ascension

If we analyse the principles of thought on which magic is based, they will probably be found to resolve themselves into two: first, that like produces like, or that an effect resembles its cause; and, second, that things which have once been in contact with each other continue to act on each other at a distance after the physical contact has been severed. The former principle may be called the Law of Similarity, the latter the Law of Contact or Contagion. From the first of these principles, namely the Law of Similarity, the magician infers that he can produce any effect he desires merely by imitating it: from the second he infers that whatever he does to a material object will affect equally the person with whom the object was once in contact, whether it formed part of his body or not

A Lexicon of Alchemy or Alchemical Dictionary

Containing a full and plain explanation of all obscure words, Hermetic subjects, and arcane phrases of Paracelsus.

by Martin Rulandus the Elder
Philosopher, Doctor, and Private Physician to the August Person of the Emperor.

1612
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Labat, the Lexicon of Baal Alchemy

The Labat is the lexicon of Baal Alchemy, a dictionary of hieroglyphs and pictographs. [ more... ]