Magic

**Magic** is an infinitely powerful and supernatural force in the Elkwood universe. Magic is considered to be neutral as it can used for good and evil purposes. The user has access to magic, the use of rituals, symbols, actions, gestures, languages, etc., to exploit supernatural forces to varying degrees, with only their skills, personal person-level imagination/knowledge, and/or morality to define the borders. Given the flexibility of magic, its users have essentially limitless possibilities for what they can accomplish.

## Effects of Magic

Magic is mostly used for Transfiguration. The user can transform, alter or transmute matter, energy, elements, objects, beings (aliens, animals, mythical beings, etc.) into anything else, either completely or partially, permanently or temporarily. Conjuration is where the user can cast spells which can summon any form of creatures, items, spirits, demons, deities or elements. Enchantment is where the user has the ability to put something/someone under a spell. They have the power to manipulate certain means of magic to accomplish their goals. Universally, the definition of an “enchanter.” Some enchanters have extraordinary beauty and are capable of enrapturing others in a vulnerable state. Other enchanters are endowed with the ability to charm objects through the use of spoken words or other occult item such as wands or talismans. Usually enchanters are bestowed with the power to shapeshift or at least glamour (an illusory disguise) to hide their true forms. Enchanters also may even be able to transform others into virtually almost anything while other more potent enchanters are able to succeed in casting, powerful spells or curses. Furthermore, enchanters have the ability to enchant objects with magical abilities of their own.

## Types of Magic

### Witchcraft/Wizardry/Sorcery

At first shown as a darker force, witchcraft or sorcery became a softer form of magic. Initially, witches were typically evil and ugly. Witchcraft makes uses of spells and tools like wands or staves. Witchcraft usually can’t kill directly. Within witchcraft are many magical abilities. Such abilities include charms, such as conjuring and levitation. Transfiguration and Animal Speech. Magical abilities come differently to every witch and wizard, although charms are a skill expected from any witchcraft practitioner. However, witches and wizards tend to struggle at magic if they look or have faulty wands or staves.

### Shamanism

Shamanism is a kind of magic that relies on natural forces like plants and animals. Shamans have a deep connection with the spirits of the wilderness and can call for help or guidance from them. Shamanistic magic can be used in more than one way, but always with some connection to natural elements. It also seems to derive its power directly from the spirits that regulate such elements, and this makes it a risky kind of magic, since the exact purpose these regulations are not always clear and challenging them brings to dangerous consequences. However, these afflictions of punishment are always linked to the remorse of the individual and offer the chance to be broken if the person shows guilt and makes amends. Shamanism is shown to be one of the neutral forms of magic. Shamans can also indirectly deliver people the lessons of life.

### Voodoo

Voodoo, often referred to as dark magic or the dark arts, was magic practiced in either the Caribbean of Louisiana. Voodoo was also a religion, beginning as a tribal and spiritual belief in Africa. Born in the jungles of the Caribbean, Voodoo has spread all across the untamed regions of the world. The main difference from Shamanism is that Voodoo derives its power less from the natural and material world and more from the Underworld spirits. Such spirits are the main limits of voodoo.

### Dragon Magic

Most dragons are actually sorcerers and witches who used spells to transform themselves while others are pureblood dragons who have supernatural powers. Dragon Magic is indeed a branch as it has many common traits.

Dragon Magic enables one to breath fire, fly (even if the particular dragon doesn’t have wings) as well as grant superhuman strength and agility. Natural dragons are very durable and come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Dragon fire bears magical powers including the abilities to melt nearly indestructible items and enchanted ice. True Dragon Magic Users are natural dragons who possess great, inherent Dragon Magic. Dragons, like other magical creatures are best handled by sorcerers, no matter how educated in magic, the sorcerers, “tame” the dragons may be.

### Fairy Magic

Fairy Magic is capable of doing the same things that witchcraft can, but it comes from nature rather than arcane forces. It can transform, bend time and space, and create things out of nothing as well as give life to non-living entities. Fairies use this in their goals of keeping the balance of everything. Many witches and wizards gained their powers from the fairies, whether through objects such as pixie dust or through blood, if the magicians are of fairy descent. These fairies can actually be spiritual or even divine at times. Fairies include the typical small, winged human but can be expanded to include other magical folk such as giants or elves. Fairies use their magic to help people.

### Genie Magic

Genie Magic is shown to be one of the most powerful forms of magic as they possess powerful cosmic magic, making them equal to gods. They can shape-shift, conjure items out thin air and transform one into anything else. By some divine law, all genies must be bound to certain objects, such as lamps or bottles, which they remain trapped within until a mortal finds it and rubs it. Then the genie must grant their master any three wishes they desire. Some genies aren’t bound to lamps like most of them are but they have to stay away from lamps, bottles or any object because if they walk near it, it’ll suck them inside and they won’t be freed until someone rubs the lamp and uses one of their wishes to free them.

### God Magic

Gods are some of the most powerful beings in the universe and are capable of almost unrivaled feats of magic. Gods of all kinds share supernatural traits like being immortal, nearly all-powerful with superhuman physical powers, capable of teleporting and dimensional travel, they can conjure, transform and enhance objects and even other living beings. God Magic is also capable of affecting the environment always limited by their area of influence.

### Summoning Magic

Summoning Magic is capable of calling on a magical or often mythological entity without the hassle of having it follow it around the user.

### Elemental Magic

Elemental or Natural Magic is both one of the purest and most common forms of Magic, because it commands directly the pure forms of the elements, like Air, Water, Fire and Earth. Elemental Magic is used by almost every kind of witch and wizard, with various degrees of power deriving from the skill of the practitioner and their connection to this element.

### Alchemy

Alchemy is a special kind of chemical experimenting on magic. Many could call it the science of magic. Users can utilize alchemy, the mystic and scientific pursuit of the power of the philosopher’s stone and universal panacea, focusing on Elemental Transmutation. They also know how to create potions and magical items, although these are generally for practical use.

### Necromancy

Necromancy is a dark branch of magic that focuses on resurrecting and controlling corpses. The user’s magical abilities revolve around manipulating the dead, death, the death-force and/or souls for good, evil or neither. They can also communicate with the deceased either by summoning their spirit as an apparition or raising them bodily, for the purpose of divination, imparting the means to foretell the future events or discover hidden knowledge.

### Quantum Magic

Users can twist the rules of science and mysticism around in order to manipulate the forces of reality to a near infinite degree where the physical portion of quantum physics may lack or are ill defined, the pataphysical extent fills in and broadens its otherwise unexplored horizons.

Through the usage of quantum magic, a practitioner is able to exploit both the natural and supernatural forces of the meta structure to infinite degrees, giving the user all but unlimited possibilities to work around with.

### Chi Magic

Users of this power have mastered their inner and natural energies, also known as chi and can utilize it as a form of magic.

### Sun Magic

The user is able perform a legendary form of magic that allows the user to cast spells and feats through the sun. Effects include solar wind/flares, geomagnetic storms, sunspot reactions, causation and even UV emissions.

### Divination

A type of magic that allows a person who uses it to see the future or gain knowledge of events that have happened or are currently happening in places when or where the user was or is not physically present.