shooting lightning out of your fingertips seems like a very inefficient and exhausting way to light up a room, doesn’t it?
or to circulate air, or to cook food, or to do much of anything that isn’t killing each other.
i mean tbf people in the war seas are incredibly preoccupied with killing each other
i could see electricity emerging somewhere like the seven seas where there’s less war
look at history, war is like THE #1 reason people innovate lol.
at the very least you’d expect the war seas to be out of the flintlock era.
yea, they innovated arcanium
they didn’t need anything better for war besides better arcanium equipment, especially not electricity where it’s natural and not magical
are we forgetting that like 99% of the soldiers of any given kingdom can’t use magic.
yes, yes i am
like hear me out:
mages and normal humans are on the same level the second the normal human pulls out an anti-tank rifle.
like its just a matter of who gets blasted into confetti first.
They aren’t so normal though, they’re an extremely valuable resource (when powerful) due to their lengthened lifespan.
Imagine all of the knowledge that a bookworm mage could possess. It would allow for the most innovative mages to not only fight for a position of power, but also be capable of creating much more than they would without it.
yknow I like the concept of a magic that does ok damage but if it clashes with a skill it WILL win and it takes that skill’s damage/speed/size multipliers and adds them on top of it’s own