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When I think magic, I think stuff like… well, being able to control fire, or water, or something like that. Or being able to speak telepathically, or talk to animals… So no, not rising people from the dead stuff. XD. Unless it’s allegory(Like the Chronicles of Narnia). I do like putting magic in my stories, but not in the conventional sense.

Take, for instance, a shape-shifter. That’s a “magical” being, but in the WIP I’m writing with a shape-shifting MC, there’s more to it than that. It’s not just magic–there are rules. For example, every shape-shifter has a “Soul-Color” which is always incorporated into their appearance somehow. Like–if your color was purple, you could have purple eyes, or purple hair, or anything, but if you turned into a bird, you would have to have purple somewhere on your body, even if the rest of you looks like a normal bird. In my shape-shifter’s society, white, black, and gray are regarded as “royal” colors because A.) they are rare, and B.) they make it harder to spot a shape-shifter in disguise.

And then we have the notion of spells. I’m not actually against reading magic in novels–I love it if it’s written well and not using any strange themes/effects/rituals–so I don’t mind reading things like Howl’s Moving Castle where spells are used for magic. In my opinion, magic itself, in stories(in the real world, this is totally different), is not evil. The use and making of the magic for me determine if it’s bad or not. So I don’t mind if someone uses a spell to turn a stool into a cat, but I would mind if someone used a ritual to try and raise the dead.

So, basically, the point I’m trying to make is that when I think of magical beings and powers, it’s not weird rituals and such, but simply another part of the world, just like we have phones and ride bikes.

Sorry for the long explanation! This used to be kind of a controversial topic for me, so I’m just trying to explain my opinion as well as I can. 😉

And yes, crystal foxes are awesome. Can we have hippocampi to?

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Ah, Chinese. Cool. I’ve always wanted to go to Japan and China.

As for colors…. hm… I like the idea of red, white, and gold, (or blue, white, and gold).  It’s kind of a cool combo. Green, white, and gold would be fun to… And @morreafirebird are we going to have a national animal, like the Bald Eagle of the USA? If so, I say we go with a dragon(though that’s kind of cliche) or a winged lion. That would be awesome.

Anyone else have animal suggestions?

Oh, and have we decided on a capital name yet? I have a few city names I thought of:

Arinborn, Ansloch, Dael, Saevena, Arethor… the list goes on and on.