Post by Valalerin on Jan 12, 2008 1:26:52 GMT
Psychokinesis is not regarded as Psychokinesis by the inhabitants of Archidet, it is known as magic. It is supernatural… Unexplainable… It’s an enigma to them how they do it. All they know is that doing one thing causes another, like a toddler playing a video game – He doesn’t understand how he’s doing it, but he knows in his heart how to.
This is not to say they don’t know what they are doing, they just don’t know how. They know that in order to create fire or control water they must act on very small scales, but they do not call them atoms they simply call it ‘matter’. One part of matter is one atom, controlling “6-K Matter” is to control 6,000 atoms, though such precision is rare.
As far as they are aware, what they are doing is inflicting their mind upon the world.
There are also many ways to ‘boost’ their ‘power’. Power is not ‘power’, it is their level of concentration. To increase their power is to believe they are doing so, and it is this belief itself that increases their level of concentration, this can be done by a multitude of means all believed to increase their power.
1: Chanting. Sacred chants and mumblings do nothing to increase ‘power’, but it is the belief that it does that increases their ability to concentrate, thus enabling them to perform better as a mage. This creates an incredible conundrum that means someone chanting a chant they think is incredibly powerful won’t necessarily be useful at all to someone who does not believe it is powerful. Doubt in a chant reduces its power, meaning opposing religious chants reinforce religious belief that heathens cannot use them.
2: Magic implements. A staff or magical orb is the most common object used by apprentice mages to aid their concentration, but it is only their belief that the object is powerful that makes it so. If a person is handed what is supposedly the single most powerful object in existence, and they doubt its power, it will be useless. Doubt is a mage’s worst enemy.
3: Confidence. A mage without confidence is a mage without power. Concentration is hindered by doubt, doubt therefore limits capability. The limit of any mage’s power is identical to the limit of his belief.
This is not to say someone who believes they hold the most powerful object in existence is suddenly a great mage, it still requires intense training and concentration in order to perform magic.
This is not to say they don’t know what they are doing, they just don’t know how. They know that in order to create fire or control water they must act on very small scales, but they do not call them atoms they simply call it ‘matter’. One part of matter is one atom, controlling “6-K Matter” is to control 6,000 atoms, though such precision is rare.
As far as they are aware, what they are doing is inflicting their mind upon the world.
There are also many ways to ‘boost’ their ‘power’. Power is not ‘power’, it is their level of concentration. To increase their power is to believe they are doing so, and it is this belief itself that increases their level of concentration, this can be done by a multitude of means all believed to increase their power.
1: Chanting. Sacred chants and mumblings do nothing to increase ‘power’, but it is the belief that it does that increases their ability to concentrate, thus enabling them to perform better as a mage. This creates an incredible conundrum that means someone chanting a chant they think is incredibly powerful won’t necessarily be useful at all to someone who does not believe it is powerful. Doubt in a chant reduces its power, meaning opposing religious chants reinforce religious belief that heathens cannot use them.
2: Magic implements. A staff or magical orb is the most common object used by apprentice mages to aid their concentration, but it is only their belief that the object is powerful that makes it so. If a person is handed what is supposedly the single most powerful object in existence, and they doubt its power, it will be useless. Doubt is a mage’s worst enemy.
3: Confidence. A mage without confidence is a mage without power. Concentration is hindered by doubt, doubt therefore limits capability. The limit of any mage’s power is identical to the limit of his belief.
This is not to say someone who believes they hold the most powerful object in existence is suddenly a great mage, it still requires intense training and concentration in order to perform magic.
