04/21/2014, 10:11 AM #994 Addendum to Metaformation "magic", as requested by Sus:
Techonology has existed just fire using things like fire, electricy and light for years. So why, suddenly, does Magical Fire, electricity and light ect. make the techonolgy not work properly? Anyone can hold a match next to an electric fan and observe that nothing happens aside from maybe the fan blows the fire out. So why, when Jimbo the Fire mage places magical fire next to the same fan does the fan slow down, or even stop? The fan produces "Wind", by why is "Magical Wind" So different?
These questions are what Andril asked at first. Newbie Mage friends and he would get together, breaking countless dollar store doodads and gadgets in the pursuit of answers. The first clue came when the use of magical fire didn't affect the dollar fans as much when the intrepid students paid less attention to them. From this, they gathered people produce their own "Energy", and this energy is what causes the two variables to react the way they do. Similar expiriments with similar results were conducted: Video cameras would record results of technology or magic being exposed to the other at semi-random intervals. The number of participants was investigated, creating more positive results.
But enough about Andril. Lets get down to the real reasons, yes?
Yall ever play a game called Arcanum? Piece of art, that one. Anyone, Magic and Techonology had similar reactions. Mages couldn't ride the train, for example, because the train would BLOW THE F**** UP. Similar idea here, and that's what I'll use to describe this "Metaformation" Andril studies.
--Magic is a beautiful thing, created from nature and natural things. It can be considered the highest form of evolution for nature. Humans, being natural beings, can bond with and understand this evolutionary path, and thus, use and perfect magic and grow as sorcerers and witches and whathave you.
--Magic is hard, though, and some people are lazy, so instead they make complex machines and circuitry, cuz thats easier. This is taking nature (iron ore, other materials and whatnot) and tearing it apart and making it somethings its not, nor ever would be naturally (High carbon steel, circuitry, ect.). Humans, being industrious and thoughtful beings can bond with this disgusting rejection of nature as well.\\
Now for my interpritation of their opposing each other(Arcanum never really explains it well):
Magic, being a natural thing, rejects techonology, simply because they are polar oppisites. However, Magic is natural, and techonolgy produces no magical energy. A tree isn't gonna get up and punch a car (usually...) because it look at it funny, nor is the car gonna cause the tree to simply wilt and die (Fuel Emissions? Newb Alayosho...). Indeed, if raw magic were just sitting around, created by and bonded to not particular caster, it would have no affect, nor be affected by techonolgy. Its the human Soul and Heart that breaks the two apart. It cannot bond with two things that are so terribly opposed, and thus, it destroys them both equally. This, in and of itself, is magical, but also "techonological" in its workings with magic. Its a far cry from blending the two sources, but its the first step. Energy that is both Magical (Opposing Technology) and Techonological (Opposing Magic) at the same time. True mastery of this energy is where Magi-Tech would come from...some day perhaps.
I gazed up at the sable-haired maiden with eyes so full of warmth it appeared she was crying silently. My trecherous mouth opened, "Why do you look so troubled, Princess?"
Slowly, she moved her eyes from the moon to me. She studied my imperfections before her for what seemed to be a blissful eternity before gracing me with her voice, "I've slain this land's only prince. What use, now, is a princess?"
As the maiden left my presence, so too did my heart.