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Originally Posted by ras'matroi in my opinion magic is an important element of fantasy. but that doesn't maen that every fantasy book has to have it.
if magic is there it should be limited. i once read a book where the mage had an hourglass and everytime he used magic the sand was running...
and the idea with the drug appears in dune (i know it's more a sifi story),too. the navigators af the spacahips take it and they get capabel to 'fold space' and bring the ship foem oŽne point to another. but by eating the spice they become addicted and stop being human...
in both examples 'magic' is used but limited.... |
I know about Dune, but the way it works for me is pretty different (Spice being a relatively beneficial thing - addictive, but generally is good for you) - in mine, the drugs are devastating, illegal, and most addicts don't realise that they can do magic - in fact, it's very difficult to control. The idea is more of an extrapolation of hallucinogens - what if these drugs didn't just create hallucinations, but made these hallucinations reality? Usually the results aren't particularly nice. But for the most part, magic isn't hugely important - it isn't used in battles, because it's too unreliable, it isn't used to enhance anyone important, because they don't think it can do anything - very similar to drugs in our own world. The rest of the fantasy comes from the world itself, not from magic.