All magic is one magic
There is a single energy called rasa, and it flows through the land, through the leylines, and through every living person. Every tradition, every school, and every spell is a different way of working that same current. When rasa is corrupted, it is called nasha. Learn those two words and you can read the whole world.
The Founders system
Each word below opens to the book’s own lines.
A Mage has the Founding.
A Magus has the Craft.
A Magi has the Mastery.
An Imagi is beyond words.
I · Mage
The Founding
The nine words
To find magic, we start with the nine Founder words. These are the Founding.
Once you have mastered the five, you may be called a Mage. Then you learn the words. The nine. Each word describes a principle of how rasa interacts with the world.
II · Magus
The Craft
The six shapes
To shape magic, we start with the six Craft shapes.
A word and a shape together. With these, you may be called Magus. Two words, one working. This is a Kenning, and it shows true capability.
III · Magi
The Mastery
The three prefixes
To master magic, we start with the three. Shakha. Rensa. Yantra. These are the Mastery.
Together, the Founding, the Craft, the Mastery, they are the Gift.
IV · Imagi
Beyond Words
An Imagi is beyond words.
Magic is about the power of imagination. Every word I just used is the same thing underneath. Rasa shaped by what you can conceive. The words are scaffolding. They carve the grooves in your mind until the grooves run on their own.
It means that to the Arcanum, or at least the Arcanum of old, you are the highest. A true master. In the world of magic, any Imagi may go where they will.
Within the realm of magic and on behalf of the Arcanum, an Imagi’s judgment is absolute.
What is magic?
All magic is one magic. It flows as rasa through the leylines, through the land, through us. All magic is one magic.
The magic is taught in the book the way it is taught here: a lake, a stone, and then the words.
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