On the negative side, screwing up can result in The End of the World as We Know It fairly easily. In the Earthsea series, magic works exactly like this.The Speech can also be used as Translator Microbes, but not the most convenient type - people who don't know the Speech will automatically hear their first language when it's spoken, so, for example, a European wizard working in Africa might surprise Muggles when he not only appears to be speaking several languages he shouldn't know, but also speaking all of them simultaneously. A spell consists of talking to the Universe using the Speech, first saying what you want to happen and then saying how you want it to be accomplished. The Speech in the Young Wizards series.It's still possible to cast magic without words (and indeed dragons are unique in that they can only cast magic in this way) but it's very difficult to master and very easy to mess up (dragons are only able to cast magic under times of often great emotional stress on an instinctive level, and they can't even control what happens when they do). But the "Grey People" did some epic thing that permanently tied the magic of Alagaesia to words, in order to make magic more controllable. Exposition character explained that back in the beginning of the world, magic was purely based on intent and no words were attached. The name of the language itself allows one to control how it is used. Want a big fire or an explosive arrow? Just yell "Brisingr!" and you're all done. The elven language in Inheritance Cycle.A spell typically takes the form of a poem, which names the entity or force being invoked, and a description of the caster's intent. In the Slayers light novels, magical incantations are performed in Chaos Words.Works using this trope will often discuss The Power of Language itself. If consistently SUNG to make it magic, that's Magic Music. May be the backbone of a Magical Incantation. Latin Is Magic, Words Can Break My Bones, Runic Magic and I Know Your True Name are subtropes. The words are often written in the Old Norse runic alphabet Hermetic Magic can use a number of real-life occult alphabets, such as Enochian or Paracelsus' Alphabet of the Magi, instead. In works set on Earth, the language may be a real-but-now-dead one, such as Latin. It may also consist of the true names of every thing and action in the universe, allowing it control the things it names or cause effects by speaking them into existence.īlack Magic is often paired with Black Speech, White Magic is often in Angel song. In some cases it's the setting's Primordial Tongue, or the language of the gods, or the metaphysical equivalent of the universe's programming language, or anything else of this sort. This tongue typically works by possessing a quality or metaphysical importance everyday communication doesn't. A version of Functional Magic where spells are cast by speaking in a particular language.
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