Compiling all the effects of "MaGiC eNeRgY"

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right now vetex chalks a whole lot of stuff in the au up to “magic energy,” despite a lot of it being unrelated to what we know magic energy actually is. therefore, in this topic, I aim to compile every canon effect of magic energy that vetex has confirmed in one way or another.

  • Hurting people, assuming it has the intent to hurt
  • Healing people, same as above
  • Cannot hurt the user unless they intend it to (sometimes)
  • Water soluble
  • Conflicts with differing magic energies, which is why wind can damage people and curse users die in the magically irradiated ocean
  • Increases one’s lifespan
  • Can massively increase the density of clouds without increasing their weight (Sky Islands)
  • Can contain a consciousness and will (Curses)
  • Can create/transform into mass (Curses)
  • Can mimick real objects almost perfectly (Magic)
  • Can alter weather patterns to be more chaotic (Dark Sea)
  • Can cause hallucinations/insanity (Dark Sea)
  • Can mutate/modify the body (Atlanteans&Iron leg)
  • Can cause items to take on new properties (Enchanting)
  • Can manipulate corpses and revive them (Dead Revival Magic)
  • Can manipulate liquids and mass (Sailor Style)
  • Can manifest lightning without being transformed/used (Sailor Style)
  • Can intoxicate and daze people (Sailor Style)
  • Can empower people/objects (Fighting Styles&Weapons)
  • Absorbs and conduct the magical properties of one’s magic when contained within magic salts (Arcanium)
  • Can shield the user from physical trauma (Powder Fist)
  • Can bend light (Vanishing Style)
  • Allows the initiated to detect/visualize strength & intent of the magic energy of others (Sensing)

feel free to tell me more in the comments, since I absolutely forgot some things

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Maybe I’m just having a brain fart but I never understood how or why a curse user can’t use their normal magic when magic and curses are kind of made out of the same thing and logically don’t have a reason to clash

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vetex said magic energy clashes with itself which is why magic hurts people (everyone has magic energy in their bodies so magic hurts them)

this will probably be retconned and make the curse thing make no sense anymore

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Absolutely. For opposing magics I understand the conflict when trying to use it, but for ones that match (or can even mutate to the same type) it should pull the magic in and allow them to use it.

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Because vetex said so.

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He also said morden didn’t go into the dark sea, but the journal says completely otherwise.

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probably because vetex didn’t code in a second mind for curse users bosses in aa and decided it wasn’t worth the time and changed the lore

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Vetex once again contradicting past vetex

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wait if magic energy clashes with itself then wouldn’t that imply literally any self explosion you make should also hurt the caster?

Oh my fault y’all

Glory to Vetex party!!! :pray: :cn:

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to be fair, the dark sea is probably less of a wall of purple cloud (deepwoken reference??) and more fades in,

also tech wrote the journals not vetex its entirely possible they disagree :skull:

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:scissors:

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But it’s in the game :face_holding_back_tears: and I’ve tried to get patreons to ask vetex about it

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blah blah game =/= lore and all that

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I personally seriously doubt morden went into the dark sea considering that he only had a sailboat at the time and when you go into i0 it’s already pretty chaotic even with a brig

though I guess big V forgot to change the journal lol

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But that’s gameplay. The journal is SUPPOSED to give the lore missing from gameplay. There’s absolutely no reason for the journal to be wrong

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I mean to be fair morden going into the dark sea or not doesn’t really have any implications, its just a minor conflict between the dev and in game lore

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actually it’s that different types of magic energy conflict with each other, which is also why wind magic can do damage, it conflicts with the innate magic energy in your body

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yeah, but considering I’m able to swim under the water, I dont think it physically forces other magic energy away

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that’s because your body isn’t made entirely of magic energy like a curse user, your physicalness protects you from ambient magic energy

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alright, why can I fire a metal blast into the ocean without it exploding then