Wizardry vs. Magic

Magic
"Magic is the technique to manipulate the magical power circulating within oneself in order to manipulate the power hidden in the natural world." (Claura)

As magician apprentices continue their training to sense and control magical power, ‘something like a window frame with glowing words written in it’ appears in their light of sight. This ‘something like a window frame’ is called the magic board (it apparently has a much longer proper name), and the words that show up are called ‘magic characters.’ The reading, understanding, and rearranging of magic characters is the foundation of using magic. Even among those who possess magical power [which is 1 in 10 people], being able to see the magic board is a stringent requirement that only 1 in 10 pass. (Chapter 14)

How It Works
“As an example, my magic board is currently showing, aside from aggregate magical power numbers, the characters for fire, wind, whip, and arrow. If I am to combine these magic characters together in my mind…… I could select the fire and whip characters and strongly visualize a whip of flames striking an enemy—the result would be the spell {Fire Whip}. That’s pretty much how it’s done.”

Learning Magic
There are four stages to the training and maturation of a magician. The first is to sense and control one’s own magical power. The second is to become able to see the phenomenon called the ‘magic board.’ The third is to understand the meaning of the magic characters that show up on the board and to utilize them. The last is to know how to group the characters and release magic power according to one’s image.

Those who clear Stage 1 are apprentices. Stage 2, novices. Stage 3, trainees. It is only after attaining Stage 4 that the practitioner can be called a real magician.

Stage 2 is the minimum requirement for entrance into the Magician's Guild. It takes most people 2 to 5 years to progress through one stage, so the shortest predictable time for an absolute beginner to become a magician is still 8 years. Furthermore, only 1 out of 10 people who reach Stage 1 has the necessary qualities to achieve Stage 2.

Creating Magic Items
Those who are capable of producing magic items and potions are only a select few magicians who possess the natural aptitude. For those magicians, the magic characters for [Creation] and [Life] appears in their magic boards. It is not possible to choose which characters appear in one’s magic board.

Wizardry
"Wizardry is the technique to, using one’s own heart as the channel, call forth the energy of chaos from beyond the world and utilize it to reform the very laws of reality." (Gio)

(See the Dungeons and Braves page for more details.)