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Sorcery / Traditions / Dynamic Magick

The world we live in it not fixed in form. The laws or nature that applies to us are mutable. It is people's perceptions of reality that sets the limits on reality. If enough people reality is a certain way, then that is the way it is. This is static reality.

But you are one of the exceptional people who live in a dynamic world. To you, reality is malleable and natural laws are made to be evaded. You can pit your will against the inertia of static reality and win. As a dynamic magician, you can do anything you like, and you can do it by mere will. No props or special actions are required.

Dynamic magicians grow out of different magic traditions, crutches that you use until you advance far enough to rise above them. Many dynamic still use these crutches, similar to Hocus Pocus, in their daily magic. But they do this out of habit; they don't have to do it, so it is not one of their Limitations.

Dynamic magicians generally strive to change people's world-view to match their own. The best way to do this is to show off your magic. At the same time, the power of paradox punishes any blatant dynamic magicians, so this is a vicious circle. In the end, most dynamic magicians settle for a low profile and live fugitive lives.

Examples and References

Dynamic magick from Mage, The Books of Magic comic book.

Limitations

Echoes

Paradox: You may bend reality through an act of will, but static reality always reasserts itself, and it fights back ferociously. The main way static reality fights back is through paradox, spontaneous magical effects that strike dynamic magicians when it is most inconvenient. Small spells with subtle effects garner little paradox, but when you start throwing powerful and vulgar spells around, they you risk serious paradox backlash.

Faith

Dynamic magick is a way to force the world to adapt to your world-view. But to do so, you must first believe in this world-view yourself, and you must never compromise this belief. If your world includes dragons and faeries, then you must act as if they were real, all the time. If you believe in omens, you must constantly watch out for them and act on them. Things that seem unimportant or meaningless to ordinary mortals assume monstrous proportions to you.

Summonables

Dynamic magicians summon legendary creatures or incarnations of philosophical ideals.