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@denali-christianson

“When people hear the word magic, they either think of fluffy unicorns and fairy dust, or sorcery.”

That’ll depend strongly on your audience. People raised to think the word “magic” means “witchcraft” will think in the way you described. Most other people will think of video games where you throw a fireball at a dude, something so completely tied to “I want to attack the dude, but at a distance, and with a cool explosion” that there’s nothing spiritual about it.

Only a subset of Christians (and maybe Muslims?) among the demographic of fantasy readers associate the word “magic” with problematic spirituality. That’s one of the reasons some wicca practitioners spell it “magick,” because they believe it calls back to a time when the word had actual spiritual connotations.