| Re: How much magic is acceptable? It feels like cheating!!
Magic is troublesome, it needs a very beliveable system of what can and can't be done and limits with side affects.
Aes Sedai with their different abilities and power; the Blood with their different jewel ranks for power(Anne Bishop); the Skill and destroying the users body by using it too much(Robin Hobb), all have interesting systems for magic with consequences.
In The Syphony of Ages by Elizabeth Haydon there was no "magic" exactly, but swords with elemental properties and different races with "abilities." One of those abilities is being a Namer, where Rhapsody would sing to get certain vibrational responses to happen.
I agree though, it does feel like "cheating" in a way. I suppose it's working on the system so it doesn't feel that way. Which is why I will be requiring allot of thought about my own... |