Do I say “Fire Magic,” “Fire magic,” “fire Magic,” or just “fire magic?”
Also, magic is usually used as an uncountable noun, (“uncountable” meaning unable to form a plural, like the word “courage” not having a plural but not really needing one) like in this example:
“magic is common in these lands…”
However, people also say “magics” to refer to various forms of magic. I know “magics”/“magicks” is a genuine word in English, but those don’t really mean the same as how “magics” is used on the forums (or in most fictional fantasy-series debates actually).
i tend to captialize it when i’m talking about a specific item that would be used as a proper noun (aka, “He’s using Fire Magic”), however magic in of itself as a word need not be capitalized just as fire is not imo
as far as countables, i would argue that they are two different instances of the word as one is a measurement referring to, say, energy or power. magics refers then to the proper noun form and can be appropriately used with plural endings. basically it is to say it depends if you’re discussing “how much” vs “how many” that defines the difference
When referring to different types of magics, (i.e. fire magic, water magic, etc.) magic becomes countable (at least how I use it. I don’t know if this is an official thing). Kind of like how element becomes countable when referring to different elements (i.e. oxygen, carbon, etc.). However, when referring to a single type of magic, or when talking about magic as a whole, magic becomes uncountable. For example, you can have water magic, but you can’t have a water magic. You can have uranium, but you can’t have three uraniums.