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Originally Posted by Marcus H.
Both, actually.  But I understand how the author is trying to illustrate as something that can't just be explained in layman's terms since he is trying to make magic as a science.
Unfortunately, that makes this series a bit troublesome to read because of the too much running around the bush. |
In other series that involves magic they use more of an rpg term like mana, magic energy, magic circles, talismans etc and that is not a bad thing.
The troublesome part starts when the author tries to give a scientific definition to those terms like what is it, how is it formed, how does it work.
And trying to put scientific definitions like this to some terms that so far have been fantasy its a bit confusing.
What else adds to the confusion is adding physics and chemistry processes to the mix.
Like i`ll try to make a comparison :
In a fantasy way:
magicians uses mana to create a fireball and shot it at the enemy. Simple right no headache.
IN mahouka things get a lot more complicated:
Magician uses psions to construct a activation sequence(a blueprint for the spell) then he uses the blue print to create the spell.
But the spell is just a set of different physics/chemical phenomena to create a desired effect, phenomena like gravity, mass, acceleration, inertia,speed,kinetic energy,thermal energy, electrical energy,drag,reflection,refraction etc.
For example to create a fireball spell you will need things like heat,fuel,gravity etc
In order to create the "fireball" you will need fuel so one needs to separate or create and gather hydrogen and oxygen molecules from the air, then uses gravity to gather those together and keep them in a contained form (a sphere), after that uses a acceleration to increase the speed of those molecules in the sphere, by increasing the speed of the particles there, the molecules are smashing each other and converting the kinetic energy into thermal energy resulting in an increase of temperature(maxwell and boltzman theory on gases), when the temperature reaches the ignition point of the hydrogen the hydrogen will ignite and start to burn forming the fireball.
After the fireball is formed then the magician needs to move the fire ball towards a destination, this is accomplished by adding a move vector to the fireball in order to start moving it towards the destination,after that can apply an acceleration vector to increase its speed.
This is just an explanation on how much pain in the ass and a headache is when you try to explain magic through science.... gave myself a headache just coming up with this nonsense.