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TDP fandom, help me out here, I’m having such a hard time understanding the logic of the magic system and the story telling around it. Like, we’ve got primal magic, and every non human creature has some affinity with the given primal they’re born to. Whether or not they can actively do something magical seems to depend on level of sapient intelligence since Stella can use portals but the adoraburrs have nothing going on in their heads. That’s all fine, that checks. Except, I’m still confused on why Callum has mastery over two arcanums. I have no idea why he thought he could learn more than one. There is no indication that any living being should be able to know more than one.

There’s dark magic, which I get like, conceptually. Kill a creature and essentially siphon its primal magic according to its arcanum. My issue with it is that I don’t understand what the limits of dark magic is supposed to be. I feel like with a sound, consistent magic system, it’s more important to know what you can’t do than showcase what you can do. My viewing experience feels hindered because I’m left going “they can do that??” when things like Claudia becoming a snake monster, Callum turns bindings in to snakes, or Soren’s paralysis is cured happens. At first I thought that sure, dark magic was initially used to help humans survive and they found more uses that existed outside the boundaries of primal magic and primal stones. But that just feels like bad story telling because then there’s no stakes if dark magic can be used as a cop out for any given situation. Also, the morality issue seems flawed. Like, if you were genuinely killing something for a dark magic spell as a means of survival, what’s the difference between that and hunting? Are the souls of that thing trapped? Does it desecrate their souls?

Also on means of survival, what can dark magic do on a practical level that primal stones can’t? That whole famine story that tried to explain the immorality of dark magic didn’t do its job because the whole time I was thinking that the problem could be dealt with just as effectively with the sky primal stone that we know Viren had, and an earth primal stone. Did nobody between these two kingdoms have an earth primal stone? Is there not a spell to bring the rain and quicken the crop growth? Why? Claudia says primal stones are rare but just how rare is “rare”? I shouldn’t have to do homework to understand the lore but supposedly the unicorns gave the humans multiple primal stones.

The crystals: why are they not talked about more? They’re evidently abundant and it looks like generally speaking, the elves have no use for them. Which seems weird to me because Callum being able to use a moonstone opal suggests you that literally anyone can use them, regardless of the primal of the user or the crystal. It just seems like they’re one time use primal stones. If the elves didn’t want humans to have magic, then talking about the crystals feels like it would’ve been relevant to that whole conversation. What’s the point of introducing this cave full of them if the only relevant ones are moonstone opals and the quasar diamonds that aren’t even there?

I don’t know what this falls under but whatever magic Kim’deal uses. What even is this blood magic? Like it looks sinister but I don’t remember anyone saying this is just a flavor of dark magic. What are the parameters of how this can be used? She can teleport, turn in to a mist cloud, have supernatural dexterity, and have scythe nails but why?

And I hate how I’m sure some of the answers to this are that it was in a book or an AMA but I still feel like I shouldn’t have to understand the magic system, the foundation of the storytelling, by looking outside the main material. I’ve just lost my trust in the soundness of the storytelling knowing there’s two required reading books and it’s so hard to get excited over season 6 when I don’t know what the actual level of the stakes are.

I made a warrior cats clangen side blog bc why not have another art blog I guess: @quiet-clan

What the fuck. My bestie and I were literally shit talking gwuncan. This is so funny

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