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Ritualistic Magic: A Short Story

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amplitude. With formed channels, the magical energies themselves can be transferred from starting points to the endpoints. This part of the spell is a mere classical magic transmission. Chaos magic comes into play in a matter to energy conversion at the start of the process and in the last phase in the reverse transformation. A soft jerk to my sides woke me up from the trance I was in. My horn was glowing, dark purple aura seeped from the corners of my eyes. “Sweetie, do you have a rubber...” a whisper came from beside me. “Um, you okay?” “Hmm?” I looked at concerned filly, sitting at the desk next to me. “You interrupted me, Twist!” I hissed at her. “S—sorry. I just wansed zo borrow your eraser.” A grin snuck on my lips as my channel …show more content…

The process involves structuring complex symbols and medium paths where magic effect converge in a planned manner. An active presence of a member of a casting species can finalize the effect. If innate magic can’t be supplied, it can be substituted with magic prepared beforehoof in the form of runes. The other name for this is ritualistic magic. I scratched that last statement because it was misleading. The expression Ritualistic magic came about from ignorant ponies who didn’t know a difference between useless rituals and intricate magic usage. Innate magic It is separated into active and passive based on its effects. Plants usually harbor passive innate magic, while some animals, Unicorns and Alicorns harbor active magic. That’s just a rule of a hoof though. There are many exceptions, like plants with active effects. An example of that would be the truth flower or the poisoned joke. On the opposite spectrum, there is the passive magic in Pegasi that helps them with flying and enables them to walk on clouds. Earth ponies have innate magic also, it just isn’t as clearly reflected. I assumed that what the book meant by that, was that if they had no innate magic, using them for blood magic would wield no results. Earth ponies do, actually, harbor magic. The book didn’t mention it,

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