Timeline for Realistic version of White and black magic
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| Jan 24 at 23:49 | answer | added | Atog | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jan 24 at 10:06 | answer | added | nigel222 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 23 at 15:16 | comment | added | Michael Foster | In The Devil's Day by James Blish, which has a take on historical magic in the modern day, there is no such thing as white magic. | |
| Jan 23 at 14:17 | comment | added | Ian Kemp | "Realistic" and "magic" are on the opposite end of the spectrum. | |
| Jan 23 at 14:13 | comment | added | AJFaraday | Just a random thought off the top of my head, but surely the most important difference would be where the consequences are coming from. Drawing heat out of imprisoned orphans to burn their rescuers, sounds evil. Sacrificing your muscle strength to break the bridge before the bad guys reach the city, sounds good. | |
| Jan 23 at 4:14 | comment | added | keshlam | See also Randall Garrett's magical mystery books, the Lord Darcy series. In his system "black magic is a matter of symbolism and intent". There are approaches which are damaging to the practitioner and those that aren't, and as sorcery was made a science in his world it developed a system of mathematical ethics which permits analyzing this. One of the more complete descriptions appears in the novel Too Many Magicians, which I do recommend. | |
| Jan 22 at 22:12 | comment | added | Stef | Hi. I think it would be good form to explicitly link to the related question you posted on writing. | |
| Jan 22 at 18:27 | comment | added | thegreatemu | Just an example that might inspire: In Terry Goodkind's The Seeker series, "white" magic is additive (can create something from nothing) while "black" magic is subtractive (can make something cease to exist). It is introduced when the wizard Zed uses magic to grow his beard, but then must shave with an ordinary razor because he cannot use subtractive magic | |
| Jan 22 at 14:54 | answer | added | Laura | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 22 at 13:55 | answer | added | Stef | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 22 at 9:51 | answer | added | ihaveideas | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 22 at 8:26 | answer | added | dbmag9 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 22 at 4:44 | comment | added | Andrew Fan | Note: You may want to specify what you mean by 'white' and 'black' magic - in some settings black magic specifically refers to offensive/elemental magic while white magic refers to healing/support magic. | |
| S Jan 22 at 4:26 | history | suggested | Aiden L | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
"thing air --> thin air" and other grammatical errors like double spaces and hyphens.
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| Jan 22 at 3:14 | answer | added | Thorne | timeline score: 10 | |
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| Jan 21 at 23:42 | answer | added | In Hoc Signo | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jan 21 at 20:08 | answer | added | TheDemonLord | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 21 at 18:04 | comment | added | user6760 | I like philosophy, good vs evil, white vs black, order vs chaos, cooking vs arson, but what if Hannibal cooks people and fire destroys acres of diseased banana plantation? Is fire white or black magic? | |
| Jan 21 at 17:14 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 17 | |
| Jan 21 at 16:58 | vote | accept | Rising writer | ||
| Jan 21 at 16:31 | answer | added | L.Dutch♦ | timeline score: 10 | |
| Jan 21 at 16:16 | history | edited | Rising writer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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