Wild Magic Lore

*For game rules, see Wild Magic*

Wild Magic is a name given to describe spells and spell casters within the world who practice a form of spell casting that involves heavy use of Life Energy. Further, Wild Magic spells are often constructed through the use of large volumes of magic energy, typically much larger than spells that come from other schools of magic. Wild Magic spells are well known for their ability to backfire or produce random results caused by the sheer volume of magic energy involved and the ability of the spell caster to control it.

Wild Magic has a heavy emphasis of Life Energy. Wild Magic spells are typically used to mutate or transform organic material. Wild Magic spells are renowned for their abilities to temporarily transform their casters into fearsome creatures even to be able to briefly summon creatures by combining organic and inorganic material. Geomancers also hail from the school of Wild Magic, able to create massive and near instantaneous plant blooms or through the use of Life Energy and other energy to move the earth and create temporary constructs like rock piles.

## Wild Magic as a Term

In addition to being a school of magic spells, the term Wild Magic is also used to broadly describe the effects of The Wild within the Great Forest as well as a reference to the way in which the Tribes wield magic within it. Thus, the term Wild Magic is often used to simply describe the chaotic nature of The Wild. For example, the Great Forest is full of Wild Magic.

## What Makes Wild Magic Wild

Wild Magic is the manifestation of spells using magic energy. (See: Magic Lore). The natural use of magic energy is not in and of itself chaotic nor wild, certainly not as much as Wild Magic spells would suggest. However, what causes this chaotic nature is the context in which the spells are cast. Those who learn the spells of Wild Magic are also the same who live in an area of the world known as the Great Forest where magic energy of all kinds is naturally found in high amounts. The land, the plants, the animals, and the people are all subject to a bombardment of magic energy throughout their entire lives. Thus, spell casters who practice Wild Magic work and learn in an environment where magic energy is readily available in all forms through their environment. Thus, mages who practice Wild Magic learn to extract magic energy both from themselves as well as from the world around them to fuel their powerful spells, and they are quite used to having a nearly limitless supply.

Having such easy access to and learning to pool such large amounts of magic energy to produce spells though is always subject to the accidental inclusion of magic energy or matter which the spell caster did not intend. Their own bodies are full of magic energy and even that energy can sometimes be accidentally pulled from their body into a spell. The inclusion of extra energy sometimes causes spells to essentially backfire and produce somewhat random effects not intended by the spell caster. The odds of this happening to a spell caster also go up significantly when they are in a battle, surrounded by the outpouring of magic energy that is stored in the bodies of their allies around them.

Although very powerful, Wild Magic spells earn their moniker because of the relative ease by which a spell caster can accidentally produce effects that are unintentional through the inclusion of too much magic energy or the accidental inclusion of unwanted energy into the spell.

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--Neil (talk) 17:27, 25 October 2016 (AST)