There are no I’s in team, but there are five I’s in “I don’t care how big the room is, I cast fireball”

"If it glows, its magic" **looks at lightbulb** Me: I knew it

Interesting character: a dyslexic polytheistic priest and the mayhem he causes by calling on the wrong gods

Harry: "Why don't wizards show themselves to the world?" Hagrid: "cause then everybody would be wanting magical solutions to their problems, wouldn't they?" Que an entire seven books of witches and wizards literally not being able to accomplish anything without magic, ever. Edit:it's worth noting that Hagrid would not be the most reliable of narrators, but its literally the closest anyone in the whole series comes to answering that "but why the secrecy" question.

magic as science: artificer, wizard magic as divine: cleric, paladin, warlock magic as talent: sorcerer magic as force of nature: druid

“You didn’t get babies with +5 resistance to fire.” Now I just wanna have a fairy that gives the baby a ton of physical boons, like _and after the blessing of grace, they were given _*_THE POWER TO BENCH PRESS HORSES._*

"Some people go to school for architecture, some people go to school to summon eldritch horrors from the spaces between realities" Weeell I guess I know what I'll take in college

"You didn't get so many babies with +5 resistance to fire" Leo Valdez baybee

"Don't think too hard about the Harry Potter universe if you want to be able to still enjoy it" Yup. Pretty much it.

I feel the Full Metal Alchemist "law of equivalent exchange" is a pretty good way to ground magic in reality. If i want to create an explosion i have to use something with the capability to explode, if i want to bring someone back to life I have to use the very specific ingredients of a human and then create a black writhing mass of suffering and lose an arm and a leg and my entire brother. *Don't bring people back to life*

3 year later I'm still laughing at the image of Anubis panicked at the idea of helping delivering a baby

i like how the bending in avatar doesn't feel like magic, like there's not specific spells it's just manipulation of your respective element. it's very loose and simple. edit: holy shit, so many likes! thanks so much :)

In France we litteraly have an sentence for the magic-ex-machina, it's "Ta gueule, c'est magique" wich means "STFU it's magic" so yeah, NEVER do that trope

I personally love the Eragon rules for magic. Namely: Casting a spell requires the same amount of energy as if you performed the same activity mundanely. If you just flick a switch or throw a rock, that's fine, but if you try & cover a fell or ravine in thick mist, it will physically tax you. You can store energy in precious gemstones or rocks to draw upon later, allowing you to cast spells that would normally be too much for you by leeching off their stored power. Once you commit to a spell, you stay committed to it for good. If you want to excavate the side of a mountain, the spell will continue to draw power from you until the desired effects are produced or you die from the stress/strain of such a powerful spell. I feel like these rules make magic fairer: now some scrawny little magic prepubescent can't run up to a book & cast the most powerful spell in existence, it takes immense power & training to even think about that. This also allows me to picture powerful spellcasters as really buff people decked out in magical bling & I wouldn't give that up for the *WORLD*.

"Waving your hands in the air like you just don't care about the laws of physics" one of the best ways I have heard to describe spells

I really liked kurzgesagt's definition of magic. In their gold apocalypse video, they said it is "a very special phenomenon, which allows us to modify physics"

King: **Sits on stone** Stone: *_REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE_*

[Worry about magic in my book being bad intensifies]

I just finished a series of books (the Winternight trilogy) that defined magic as “forgetting that things aren’t how you want them to be”. The best example off the top of my head would be “forgetting that the candles weren’t on fire” or “forgetting that anyone could see [character]”. It was a fascinating way of approaching the subject. Also, it hilariously reminds me of Douglas Adams’s definition of flying which was “the art of throwing yourself at the ground and missing”.

"Three can keep a secret if two of them are dead, and the third one is cursed to only speak in spoonerisms." Truer words have never been spoken.

Fairy Tail could basically be renamed magic-ex-machina. Every story arc basically ends the same: Bad guy: "BWAHAHA YOU CAN'T BEAT ME SO JUST TO RUB IT IN HERE'S ME HURTING YOUR FRIEND!" Natsu: "Friendship" Bad guy: "Nani!?" Natsu: "FIRE DRAGON FRIENDSHIP FIST!" Bad guy: "I am beaten! Though not dead. Cause I will literally be a good guy like....next week...."

4:23 "...and a stone that would yell when the king sat on it." I'm sorry, *_w h a t ._*

I feel like urban fanatsy is "easiest" when magic somehow "enters" the world at a set point in history. Like if everything is historically as in reality, but at some point (probably somewhere around where you want to set your story) a "convergence" happens and suddenly magic is real. Or something.

When looking for a good example of the “hidden magical world”, my go to example of this would be the Percy Jackson series. It addresses many of the issues that Red brought up throughout the series. Possible Spoilers! How do the mundane people not notice the magical hidden world? In this series; there is a force know as The Mist, which Essentially veils the truth of the world from most mortals, except for the rare few that have the ability to see through The Mist. The Mist alters the way mortals think and understand a situation, such as seeing a metal bat in place of a glowing magic sword. Why did the people of the magical world not try to prevent or fight in many of the atrocities such as wars? In this series, demigods DID participate in the conflicts. As seen throughout the series, demigods where involved in just about any armed conflict all the way back to Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. The whole reason for the pact made between the Big Three Gods (Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades) is because after World War II, the three gods realized that there children where so powerful that they could heavily affect any armed conflict that they become involved with.

Since spells are words and a few hand waves...... Farmer : DARN CROWS GO AWAAAAY!!! *poof* Farmer : oops...

Some words of wisdom I've heard "What magic cannot do is infinitely more interesting than what it can do."

"Not to keep taking pot-shots at Harry Potter but..." Great books for entertainment value, but very flimsy under scrutiny. I'm into it. Carry on!

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -Arthur C. Clarke

When using magic as a resurrection tool/Geat-Out-Of-Death-Free card, I personally like the FMA/Game of Thrones/ Pet Cemetery approach: "What comes out of the ground ain't what you put in."

Worldbuilding is hard. You know what's harder? Creating a magic system that is original, interesting, mysterious enough for plot, and works well with said world in general.

Red: "Ancient tales didn't tend to have positive enchantments" Achilles, Fionn mac Cumhaill, et al.: Allow us to introduce ourselves. But seriously, there are *a lot* of overpowered heroes in mythology. But I guess in standard medieval and later folk tales, it became more common to just have the bad guys use it, since only pagans use magic and all our heroes should be good Christians, right?

“Basically prayer.” As a religious person, this had me howling. 🤣

"How did they open the door?" Magic. "How are they able to survive underwater for an hour?" Magic. "Where are the character's par--" MAGIC!

"A spell is when you wave your hands and something noticeably happens that is not typically correlated with the waving of hands" Me: (waves hands at a theremin) I am a magician!

One common explanation I've seen for the "Weirdness Filter" is this: The magical and non-magical worlds used to co-exist but didn't get along. Eventually a mist/ veil / glamour is made to prevent the fighting, or the magical people moved to a different world.

In my opinion Percy Jackson handled the whole "magic in our real world but shhhh no one mention it" thing really well. For one thing they have the Mist, meaning it's not physically possible for the majority of the population to notice this. but what I really appreciate is that Rick never ignored the fact that half-blood's and the Gods should and would get involved in mortal conflicts. most wars are mentioned throughout the series as involving half-blood's, and the Greek Gods aren't entirely unpresent it's just that the way people view and worship them has changed

"A stone that would yell when the king sat on it." Y tho

My friend came up with a pretty damn good definition, actually. Magic: rules that break other rules.

I disagree on spells being “boring”, I actually like that so much- the concept of someone wiggling their fingers, then BOOM! Suddenly a mouse turns into a dog, or a rock appears, or a villain is trapped in a bubble

Personally, I’m a big fan of Brandon Sanderson’s approach to magic throughout his Cosmere. Every series or book having their own unique magic system with lots of interesting interactions with the world it’s set in, yet all of them are connected to each other in a very subtle way both on a world level and on a cosmic one. I especially like how each unique magic system has a major part to play in both the local world building as well as the much subtler overall Cosmere world building. I love how much thought has clearly gone into it.

So here's an idea. What if magic circles aren't really a part of the spell or enchantment or whatever, but rather just something akin to a diagram showing you the proper placement of the actual spell ingredients? As in, they make the casting easier or more reliable by helping you place everything precisely where it needs to be for maximum effect? So in essence drawing out the circle itself become the magical equivalent of showing you work in math, as opposed to doing it in your head. You can still get the right answer without writing out the equation, but showing your work makes it easier. I'm sure someone else has thought of this and/or used it in a story somewhere.

“If it glows, it’s magic” Me Looking At My Phone At Night: HOLY SHOOT I KNEW IT!

8:28 Red: "You wouldn't ask Isis for help with the Heart-Weighing Ceremony." I find that statement funny because Isis, being the wife of Osiris, is sometimes depicted assisting in the Heart-Weighing Ceremony. I understand that the Heart-Weighing Ceremony is more in line with Osiris, but it's something interesting I learned.

I think the best way to define magic is "The apparent bending or breaking of the laws of physics from someone's perspective."

Story idea: mage can solve litterally anything, but must be sufficiently annoyed to tap into their powers. Their little sibling is the only one who can sufficiently annoy them. Insert buddy cop plotline.

Science: How the world works Magic: How to bend the world around you without breaking it.

I've found that a good way to work around magic being absurdly overpowered is to have it draw on physical strength, kind of like the Inheritance Cycle. It just makes a lot more sense to me, and even adds a bit more scientific logic to it if you think of it as the magic user converting metabolic energy into other forms.

“If it’s in a fantasy world and isn’t a mushroom in a cave- it’s probably magic” truly amazing way of putting it 10/10

I’ve always wondered where a “superpower” crosses the line to “magic”

for harry potter it seems to basically be a matter of "yeah, your kid's magic. now, don't tell anyone, or we'll wipe their memories, and then wipe yours for good measure."

Re: resurrections as a concept: One of my all-time favorite book series addresses this REALLY well. It's called "Daughter of Smoke and Bone" by Laini Taylor, and basically, without giving anything away, resurrections are a thing that happen, but only under very specific circumstances. Like, you need a piece of the soul, within 3 days of the death, and they will be marked as resurrected. Also, magic is a form of energy that requires a sacrifice to use. Small for small things, major for big things. One particular thing of magic requires having all your teeth removed with pliers.

"Don't think too hard about the Harry Potter universe if you still want to enjoy it" Man, That hits different now...

The catagories literally confine to DnD casters Magic as Science: Wizard Divine/demonic: Warlocks, Paladins, Clerics Latent power: Sorcerers

"You don't get too many babies with a +5 resistance to fire"

I've forgotten how well LOTR music fits with anything!

There is a really interesting book series called the Young Wizards series. The first one is called So You Want To Be A Wizard. Basically in those books, to become a wizard, you basically have to be picked for loving to read, and a wizard's manual appears to you in some way (the first one literally snags a character's hand while in a library). Then when they take a whole oath to protect life and the universe, they start to learn how to speak the language of everything, called the Speech. They have to be super careful about speaking it because everything in the universe understands it, but it can change things just by describing them differently. Also, using magic is really draining and they have to be careful of how and when they use it. Kind of like in life how when you're a kid, you have a ton of energy, but when you get older, you start to wear yourself out easier. It's one of the best magic systems that I've ever read.

Red is probably disenchanted that her surprisingly comfortable looking chair doesn't randomly yell when she sits on it like that magical stone that yelled when the king sat upon it in Irish mythology (though a randomly yelling chair would definitely make watching television or reading a book more non-sensical than Ilvermorny or the secret magical world of magic as represented by the Harry Potter series).

Shire music: exists Me: relaxation intensifies

I've found a useful definition of magic that might interest you. It was created by Terry Pratchett, with this idea: if it works, but you have no clue how it works, it's magic. So for an average person a lightswitch or a remote are artifacts.

MAGIC SYSTEMS: 1. 6:08 - Magic As Science (ex: Doctor Who, Thor, Doctor Strange) 2. 7:23 - Magic As Divine Or Demonic (ex: Malleus Maleficarum, most Animes, Egyptians gods, maybe even Dungeons & Dragons?) 3. 8:37 - Magic As Rare Talent (ex: Harry Potter, X-Men, Percy Jackson) 4. 10:03 - Magic As A Force Of Nature (ex: Jim Butcher) 5. 11:03 - Magic As Ironclad Ruleset (ex: Avatar The Last Airbender, Fullmetal Alchemist)

A way i get around the whole "why did magic users not interfere in historical conflicts" thing is acknowledge the fact that magic users DID join in the conflicts, becoming part of the reason why they were so deadly, and the magic body that runs the magic community scrubbed any mention of it from the history books and swore both soldiers and governments into secrecy, usually bribing them or inducting them into the magic community.

I say this as a massive HP fan, but it's honestly kind of impressive how little sense the world makes. Almost every piece of the world central to the plot and conflict makes no sense when subjected to more than two minutes of scrutiny. Magic is capable of doing almost anything and its limitations are seemingly random. The magical school is fantastically dangerous and no remotely competent parent would send their child there. Quidditch makes no sense either as a sport or as an acceptable activity for children. The level of wonder that has to be generated to get people to suspend so much disbelief is frankly a testament to how good Rowling is at making a world immersive. How do you even make a world immersive tht doesn't make sense? I dunno, but she did it.

12:30 It now dawns on me that Star Wars handles this extremely well: the Force is its own brand of magic, which explicitly does its own thing when it wants to. But... it's also relatively low-powered, and very subtle. (Also, Kreia is full of shit, I believe this with all my heart. People don't need to be prodded by the Force to be completely irredeemable assholes.)

IIRC, a lot of love charms that were found usually are contextualized negatively. The charms were less “make her have feelings for me uwu :3” and more “make her obsessed with me. Make her passion for myself burn her to the bone and flay her mind.” Additionally, a few of these charms were presumed written by women who had fallen for other women.

Best advice: Don't think too hard about the Harry Potter world if you still wanna enjoy it.

I always felt the Dresden Files does a great job of addressing why the magical world isn’t known by the ordinary world: human psychology. Of course the magical peeps aren’t going to be able to all keep the secret, but that doesn’t matter if humanity as a whole refuses to believe it. If a coroner finds a corpse drained completely of blood and with two neat little entry wounds in its throat, they aren’t going to immediately jump to “vampire,” and if they do, their superiors are going to suggest they take a few days off. If you run around screaming that your child was eaten by a demon from hell, everyone will assume you’ve gone nuts. The main character is literally in the yellow pages under “wizard,” and most people think he’s either nuts or a charlatan. Humans as a whole have a surprisingly high tolerance for ignoring things we don’t want to believe. Some individuals might be different, but overall we really love to ignore anything that doesn’t agree with how we believe the world works. As for history and wars and stuff, that’s only really a problem when one side has magic. If both sides have magic, then you just need to change the reason why wars happened. “It wasn’t REALLY because of secession, it was because the vampires didn’t want their primary food source to be drastically reduced” or something like that. You can also always say “you know that historical figure that people at the time believed was magical? Yeah, he actually was!”

"A stone that would yell when the king sat in it" ... I've just _got_ to wonder why, because now I'm definitely going to search this up after I finish... 😂

I really like Brandon Sanderson’s magic systems because he uses it consistently through all his books, even if his books have entirely different magic systems, and sometimes doesn’t feel like magic. For instance in Mistborn vs Elantris vs the storm light archive. In each world magic is consistent and yet all have a definite source, and can trace back to people/unique deities and their actions.

Magic: A way of explaining, doing, or creating something by means that don't adhere to the laws of physics.

Point, for lord of the rings music.

8:38 I just wish to point out that D&D warlocks (in 5e, at least) absolutely fit into the previous model. They get their powers from an entity, albeit not a god, rather than from an innate source.

World of Darkness has an interesting take on The Secret World, which tbh varies from rulebook to rulebook. In essence, most magic entities have either a huge drawback if they are discovered or have a Weirdness Factor going on. Seeing a Werewolf in Crinos form (aka, the blatantly werewolf-y form) induces what's called Delirium, basically they'll go mad for a while and entirely forget from the sheer trauma of having seen a Crinos. Some other entities in the WoD are immune to Delirium, but all of those are also Magic themselves. Besides that, they are bound to the Litany, a code of honor with very severe consequences if broken that between other stuff has keeping their actual identity a secret. Mages, on their side, are penalized by being seen by normals doing magic. They can absolutely go wild in places where there is no normals (to a point, as some magic can be considered "vulgar" and penalize you anyway unless you are in the Magic Planes), but if a normal sees them doing something blatantly impossible the Mage will be hit by the Paradox. And Paradox can go WILD, reality may outright attack you for it and leave you permanently disabled or/and mad and too far gone. Your smart Mage uses what's called "Coincidental Magic" (Magic that looks like it could realistically happen from an outsider's view) in most situations to avoid being hit by Paradox. I'm not overly aware of how Vampires are penalized (ironic given Vampire: The Masquerade is the most popular rulebook but eh lol), but the Changeling's take is a healthy mix of the werewolves and the mages. Changelings get hurt by Banality, aka the belief magic doesn't exist, so showing their powers in humans' presence and getting that magic denied by a reality-loving normal can outright kill the magical part of their soul if it's bad enough, which is bad. Hell, just being besides a particularly unbelieving human can be toxic for a Changeling. They also have a Delirium-like entity, the Mists, which bewitches normals to keep them away and ignorant, besides have their own separate pockets of reality in which they can be themselves. They don't seclude themselves there because they need humans to feed their magic by inducing creativity and belief in them normals, besides needing them also to keep sane, so a degree of coexistence is necessary. Then you have Wraiths who are essentially ghosts and are very limited in their ability to interact with the world as is, and Hunters which it's its own can of paranoid, madness-inducing, unclear origins worms. They hunt each other all the time, no way they are talking it with the world. The whole being born in families of normals (which happens for all of the above sans Werewolves, as they have Kinfolk) is explained away with how it's outright impossible to be honest with your family about it and how hard reality hurts the supernatural if anything considered too far happens. Recently awakened mages and changelings, in particular, may need a lot of help from others to get through the initial phase, being always quickly assigned a mentor when discovered, and even so struggle to keep their families. A lot of them outright abandon their original households because the situation isn't, as you say, sustainable. Faking death is a classic between recently awakened mages, and some changeling subraces are known for their habit to leave their birth families behind (the Eshu, as their magic nature makes them wanderers, struggle if they have their chrysalis a bit too young). So basically, how you make a Secret World work? By *reality* heavily penalizing the idiot who dares to say too much.

lol the “deity” magic actually seems very familiar to Power Rangers, where they are granted “magical” items to turn them into power rangers from a mystic being or a master

Gotta love that LOTR background music

My personal favorite is a specific kind of magic as a talent, that being when anyone can gain it if it's activated or something along those lines.

9:08 i appreciate the refusal to use footage from the percy jackson movies

7:07 I see the Hela scene as not Hela wielding Mjölnir (she can't) but a payoff to an earlier line from Thor to Loki: "You know that nothing will stop Mjölnir as it returns to my hand, not even your face" So in that scene, Hela isn't wielding Mjölnir, she's stopping it, which Thor didn't know was possible and establishes how strong she is and ignorant about her he is.

0:30 Heck the mushroom probably glows with magic too

i wish she had Arcane at the time to show clips of viktor and jayce doing magic-science

I know this is old, but as someone trying to write, but can't absorb any writing advice in writing class. This series is a blessing.

Great advice I got from going to a Pixar writing and animation seminar a few years ago: You don't always need to explain why a thing works. Monsters Inc. says that screams=power in monster world? You accept it. It's not important in the overall save for the fact that laughs=more power later in the game, but you don't question the mechanics of either of these. Because in the large scale you're more concerned with Mike and Sully's relationship with each other and with Boo, whether or not Boo will get home, and if Randall's mysterious evil scheming will be stopped in time. If they had spent time trying to explain why screams=power, it would have taken away from the actual meat of the plot. So sometimes, and especially with emotionally tied magic, you don't want to explain it, let alone need. Your characters can take the center stage and make a character centric piece. Or it can just be backdrop. Worldbuilding is hard af and the reason Harry Potter works is because the secret of the Wizarding world is *unimportant* in the grand scheme. Most of the focus is on the wizard characters, with a few scenes of the Dursley's here and there. Yes, you can question why muggles are so unaware of a magic world right in their backyard or why screams can be converted to power, but is it really that important to the core of the plot? Do you stop crying when Boo has to leave Sully just because the power thing doesn't make sense? Do you stop caring about Harry's struggle against the forces of evil because some muggles should be able to tell one another about their cousin who has a pet owl and a wand? I could go on with further examples, but the point is, in storytelling not every detail needs to be explained. If you say "in this world, cheese is the currency" and move on, most readers will take it at face value. That's the *fun* of fiction. It *isn't* our world. It doesn't have to make perfect logical sense to us. And if you really want to explore the fallacies more deeply, write some fanfiction. But I'm more interested in Harry finding horcruxes for the moment.

But strange woman lying in bonds distributing swords is no basis for a system of gouvernement.

Red talks about stories where magic is a subset of science but one of my recent favorites basically does it the other way around. In that world the only real restrictions on magic were you need to be able to visualize what your spell will do, and you need to control enough energy to make it happen. The interesting part is when the main character decides that instead of just visualizing a flame sitting in his palm he can use his memories of his past life to concentrate hydrogen and oxygen together before igniting them thereby creating a larger flame more efficiently.

For five years this used to be my ringtone.😂 Gosh it is so hard to concentrate when the sound invokes feeling of overwhelming stress. RUN! And pickup your phone already!🔥📣

I always define magic as "Science we do not yet understand."

I’d love to hear your thoughts on White Wolf’s “Mage: The Ascension” magic system. Basically it boils down to magic is enforcing your will on reality, but human perception of reality limits magic. Technology works because we’re convinced it works, but we’re also convinced you can’t throw fireballs down mainstreet. So while a mage could chuck the aforementioned flaming sphere down the length of a road, the instant a person whose perception of reality doesn’t include this as a possibility (I.e. someone who doesn’t know about magic and consensus reality) perceives this action, the mage who pitched the pyrokinetic fastball will be immediately and violently hit with universal backlash. So different groups of mages are all fighting to define reality and therefore make their powers the most freely useable. The Technocracy: The mages who are currently winning the reality war. Think a wand of lightning is a taser. The Marauders: the insane mages who seem to ignore consensus reality and cause general mayhem. The Council of Nine: the “protagonist” mage orders that have banded together to survive. They are comprised of; -The Akashic Brotherhood (zen monks) -The Celestial Choir (the Ur Religion) -The Cult of Ecstasy (time travel stoners) -The Dreamspeakers (tribal shamans) -The Euthanatoi (probability manipulating assassins) - The Order of Hermes (high magic wizards and alchemists) - The Sons of Ether (crazy mad scientists too extreme for the technocracy) - The Verbena (traditional witches and Wicca) - The Virtual Adepts (space-warping VR Developers) And finally, the Nephandi: Lovecraftian cultists of terrifying extrasolar entities.

Magic is the ability for my brain to hear that series of vibrations, precieve it as a melody, and release some chemicals that make me feel so relaxed and happy

This is all true. In the novel series I'm trying to make, I had a hell of a time trying to get the magic system to work in a way that matched the world I created. Once I established the rules and added that to how the characters did things, it became a hell of a lot easier, but it was still a massive migraine. 😵

No Brandon Sanderson? Sanderson's Laws of Magic and The Cosmere would've made good discussion on the writing of magic and its use in creating conflict.

Hm... "Magic: Can't be done" is probably the best all-encompassing definition of magic that I've heard, ironically. I know you didn't mean it that way, but I'm serious. Magic, at least conceptually, is some feat that is achieved by a means that is unknown or impossible by the viewer's knowledge or experience. As they say, any technology sufficiently advanced would be perceived as magic. Anything could be magic if we have no idea how it was done.

i love these videos. they get you to think about things you completely take for granted in new interesting ways

When you mentioned King Arthur and Excalibur my brain immedietly went to an old movie I don't remember the name of. "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."

‘Speaking of getting the picture let’s talk about prophecies.’ I loved your segues in this video.

You know what's an underutilised form of magic? Rune magic. No fancy words or hand movements to make things happen because you want them to, your ass is inscribing runes onto whatever it needs to work, doing magic is a whole ritual that'll probably take at least a minute or two and if you want to do something bigger or more complex, it needs to literally be bigger or more complex. It's instantly a limiting factor to magic, either physically (just HOW complex or big can you really get?) and in terms of time (can't quick-roast an army if you need a bunch of time to inscribe what you need to do on the floor or what have you). Fullmetal Alchemist is a world where the ONLY kind of magic is rune magic, but ironically we don't see that form of magic in action much - most of our main protagonists and antagonists circumvent this rule.

Hoo boy. Just watched this over again to take notes on my own writing. Forgot the Harry Potter aspects of this video, and Red warning us not to analyse Harry Potter too much if we want too enjoy it... Kinda ironic now since a lot of people are no longer enjoying it because of... certain incidences.

This video was actually pretty helpful. I'm writing a series that surrounds magic and there are different types that have different rules, and each type affects the user differently. Videos like this that explain the physics of it and how magic can reflect the theme of the story. This was very insightful, so thank you.

I've always liked the Discworld approach to magic. Sure, it exists, and is basically everywhere, but it's also really annoying for the most part. At the high end, Sourcerers and Wizards are basically walking nuclear bombs- there are places of the world with magical fallout and strange places of arcane enchantment happening wildly thanks to wizard wars. Witches tend to keep reality stitched together in their lands, focused more on the balance of nature and clipping forgotten old men's toenails. There's newfangled devices with demons in them you can use as a PDA or MP3 player, they're not very good. Magic is everywhere, but of you use it, things will go bad or the result is annoying.

Gonna add timestamps for people looking for something specific, cuz im like that. 00:01 Prelude (literally the start of the video, chill) 00:50 Potions (pick your poison) 02:00 Enchantments y Curses (trust me this is hilarious) 03:00 Prophecies 04:02 Magic Items 04:48 Spells 06:02 Magic Formats and Magic as Science 07:22 Magic as Divine/Demonic 08:36 Magic as Rare Talent 10:02 Magic as Force of Nature 11:03 Magic as Ironclad Rules 11:41 The Two Problems 15:08 So In Short

I am glad this is giving me inspiration. Thank you for this video. I hope you stay well.

I literally cannot get enough of these videos holy smokes. What an excellent channel full of great content.