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    Magic through illness?

    Sounds like fun...I would love to read it and see how you work it all in!
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    Welcome to my profile! As time progresses, I'll let you know more about me(right now I don't...

    Welcome to my profile! As time progresses, I'll let you know more about me(right now I don't know the general attitude for profiles). I am the author of one book, Of Blood and Blade, for which I'm still searching for an agent/publisher. Currently I am working on the second book in the...
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    Alternative fantasy races

    Thank you Behelit! While it's true that "stock fantasy races" have become fairly regular at the register, it doesn't mean that someone willing to take the time to know that race couldn't bring something new to it. D&D is the greatest instigator in continuously defining these characters to a...
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    Fantasy religions

    It sounds to me that, despite your personal aethism, your characters may have need of something to believe in(or an antagonist, not sure). That you believe as you do and would go through the work to create that in your universe is atypical to the given laziness many of us feel concerining...
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    Magic through illness?

    I think it's a wonderful idea! Try to keep it creative, (I would personally nix her suddenly 'getting over it' later, but you don't have to listen to me) and the reader certainly won't any reason to doubt your reasoning for her sickness.
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    The cost of magic

    I believe that the use of magick completely depends on the context of the story...the author decides the boundaries, and the reader uses suspension of reality to allow that magick to exist. What seems to be the greatest obstacle to that type of thinking is, as JGSTYLE said, when there was no...
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    Schools of magic

    All you have to do when it comes to magick is decide what works within the confines of your own universe. Harry Potter and S.M. Stirling certainly have different ideas when it comes to how magick works. However, within the context of their respective worlds, neither appears weird or...
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