Raw Magic
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Raw magic is based on the existence of a magic realm, developed by the divine to allow mortals to escape predestination. The realm was formed by Alynna in the earliest times of the world in order to make magic possible. The magic realm is called different things under different paths and schools, but is all the same thing as far as magic is concerned. The magic realm also functions as a Tapestry, giving a place for past events to reside and future events to be planned.
When a mage wants to cast a spell, they employ their school as they have been taught, but in all circumstances in the realm of magic, this leads to a change in the magic realm. When mana or essence is applied to this change, Creation starts to diverge over a period of time, towards the change to the magic realm, and the change becomes real. The more change required to creation, the greater the difficulty of the spell. Large scale changes become impossible for a mortal to do.
Also the less people the spell effects, the easier it is to do, that is because everyone the spell effects is allowed to resist it if they are aware it can be resisted (using resolve). Resistance is always optional, in that the targets can opt not to resist.
The future can be scryed, in a limited fashion, based on what has happened in creation, and based on what creation intends to do. Events that have not been planned yet, cannot be scryed, and also for every hour into the future to be scryed, the base difficulty doubles, because more and more can change in that time.
The past can also be observed, by traveling to that point in the magic realms. However, a strict policy of non-interference must be observed. If anything is attempted to be created, a divergence will occur, one that the one causing the divergence will become the center of. The person will become part of the magic realm immediately, turning to pure magic and continuing to live in the divergence without them ever knowing the divergence occured. They can attempt to return to creation, but they will still be in the magic realms, within a creation inside of it which stablizes the divergence.
