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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering
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Too many Jeannes | Medieval lordship and power, French comparative history, archives | Associate prof. Universitetet i Oslo (personal account) | she/her.
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I have always thought that the very arbitrariness of magic is a big part of what *makes* it magic in the first place. Atmosphere over systems any day.

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One of the responses this thread (on the Bad Place) got, a few times, ran roughly "if magic is common, magicians become engineers" or variations of that theme - the assumption that magic would be rapidly systematized by fictional pre-modern societies. And I don't think this is right. 1/

A tweet of mine from Twitter discussing magic systems, it reads, "One of the substantial errors, in my mind, in fantasy writing, is the idea that 'magic' has to be forced to follow either 1) a parallel system of physics or 2) a logical rules-based system. I'd argue instead that magic systems ought to be *thematically relevant* & *consistent.*"
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Dr. Erika Graham-Goering
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Too many Jeannes | Medieval lordship and power, French comparative history, archives | Associate prof. Universitetet i Oslo (personal account) | she/her.
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