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Glowy purple magic
Dec. 18th, 2018 09:32 amThe decision to have people in the Dragon Prince universe refer to glowy purple magic dealing with death and souls as "dark magic" disappoints me.
Like, I know that even though "quintesscence" is a nifty word that refers to a similar concept, they couldn't use that in this timeline. Ok.
And they didn't call it "black magic" so hey, congrats for being one level up from ultimate racism and lack of originality, I guess?
It's just crappy and I feel like anyone giving it some thought could come up with something referring to the use of life/death energy. Possibly they could have just called it "the 7th source," but that's probably too awkward...
My girlfriend thinks it looks like black light / ultraviolet radiation, which is neat and probably related to some useful terms.
But like, even just thinking about the magic system... You already have several sources that generate light. You have star magic, and sky magic, which seems more like weather magic so far, but certainly includes darkness at times. Something that would actually make sense being called "Dark Magic" would be something more like space magic. The emptiness between the stars.
(Dark matter and dark energy are things, if also kinda uncreatively/imprecisely named...)
It reminds me of this poem:
http://www.odins-gift.com/poth/S/spacegoddess.htm
but they're not doing space, so... death & souls magic. Needs a better name. Glowy purple magic for fashion-concious Disney witches.
Like, I know that even though "quintesscence" is a nifty word that refers to a similar concept, they couldn't use that in this timeline. Ok.
And they didn't call it "black magic" so hey, congrats for being one level up from ultimate racism and lack of originality, I guess?
It's just crappy and I feel like anyone giving it some thought could come up with something referring to the use of life/death energy. Possibly they could have just called it "the 7th source," but that's probably too awkward...
My girlfriend thinks it looks like black light / ultraviolet radiation, which is neat and probably related to some useful terms.
But like, even just thinking about the magic system... You already have several sources that generate light. You have star magic, and sky magic, which seems more like weather magic so far, but certainly includes darkness at times. Something that would actually make sense being called "Dark Magic" would be something more like space magic. The emptiness between the stars.
(Dark matter and dark energy are things, if also kinda uncreatively/imprecisely named...)
It reminds me of this poem:
http://www.odins-gift.com/poth/S/spacegoddess.htm
but they're not doing space, so... death & souls magic. Needs a better name. Glowy purple magic for fashion-concious Disney witches.
