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8 days agoFor me, personally, making magic “grounded” makes it less… Well, magical. I feel like if magic won’t be whimsical and willy-nilly, it will lose the wonder factor and become just another part of sciences. Science and magic being the opposite ends of a spectrum is what, to me, is the whole point of magic.
Well, for me it’s not a problem since one CAN study magic but for each individual the process is completely different. It’s just that magic is not some kind of a dormant attribute of the world but a type of intelligent force.
Trying to explain logically something that’s supposed to be illogical but here you go: A wizard’s brain is making a translation layer that fits only that wizard. There are no schools per se; no one can teach you your way of understanding magic and their way of understanding it won’t work for you either but academies can provide you with space, time and all the basic necessities needed for you to study it your own way, that is, find your way of translation through study. The only method for wizards to translate their understanding of magic from someone else is through spell scrolls or spell books; this is possible only thanks to the nature of spell books and spell scrolls being magic items in and of themselves and so also being able to be understood through the reader’s “comprehension interface”.
Attempting to study and understand magic is possible, but in that case magic “decides” it will become a capricious fae/alien that will talk with you in its own language, creating new language for each creature and requiring you to learn it with absolutely no guidance.
TL;DR: magic is weird and flimsy, each wizard understands it in a different way that works only for them.