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If I understand you correctly, each spell sits at a certain point, and the geometric shape represents the set of spells the mage can spell. And each point should have a different colour, representing …

If he can't draw from other people (be it because nobody is there, be it because their life energy is protected by some magic) he's powerless. … So you see, although all those different types of magic lead to shape shifting, they still have important differences. Only a demonesque can stop a natural born shapeshifter from shapeshifting. …

And the knight's iron armour not only protects him from lancets, but also from magic attacks. And your treasure is safe from magic stealing if it is inside an iron chest. … I think those three rules should already be enough to prevent magic to be all-powerful, and still allow enough magic to be used for interesting things. …

As is well known, in the middle ages, and before that, people could do magic. However, we know that in today's time, magic simply doesn't work. … However let's assume that this is not because magic never worked, but because for some reason magic stopped working. …

After reading that lamp ghosts really exist, I of course had to try for myself. Not having an old lamp, I just tried to rub some electric lamp at home, and to my great surprise, indeed immediately a g …

I'm your professor of magic spelling, and today you'll learn the most important spell of all." … They were not here to learn about the dangers of magic, they were here to learn how to apply it! …

I think the most subtle way would be trough effects on his personality and attention, in ways you wouldn't connect to the object, but the correlation between gaining/losing those traits and gaining/lo …

A side effect would be that if a magician exhausts his magical power for some spell, he would temporarily lose his magic protection and become as vulnerable as any other human. … Indeed, such a magic self-protection could also be used to identify magicians early on, when they themselves don't yet know that they have magical powers. …

One thing I've not yet seen mentioned is communication (both human and animal). Using sound (especially loud sound like a warning cry) to communicate may be a bad idea if it can have all sorts of side …

Results of fire magic going rampant on earth Well, fire magic first of all results in fire. … Fire + Wood Wood is of course feeding fire, so it would probably cause the fire magic to get stronger, while the wood magic would be diminished (fire eats wood). …

Effect of rampant wood magic Since according to your linked question, wood magic is connected to life and growth, I would expect that rampant wood magic would cause things getting alive and/or grow larger … Air Since you associated air magic with rapid change, it would add to the rapid growth due to wood magic. …

Effects of water magic going rampant The most obvious effect could be torrents of rain, probably also thunderstorms, and floods either caused by this, or just caused be rivers/lakes getting more water … Interactions with other elemental magic Air Thunderstorms and snowstorms are the obvious effect here. …

Note that such a repulsion could also be used productively to deflect magical items from structures which can exert the necessary physical force, even if the magic of the items stored there would be otherwise … completely useless (say, there is a type of magic that does nothing but change the colour of objects; it's cheap and normally useless, but if you manage to get sufficiently many enchanted items together …

You'll also have to define how efficient the energy transfer from the body to magic is (that is, how much of the energy you draw from your body actually ends up in the magic). … So if you assume a similar efficiency for magic, the 22 calories figure above will only amount to between 5 and 6 calories available for magic. …

Healing magic. Known to us as pharmaceutics (esp. antibiotics). … The unextinguishable-fire magic (known to us as napalm). …