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![Oh goodness, please don't ask me to ALT text this.
Okay I'll try. It's a hand-drawn diagram of sorts about the "magic system" in my books Imbued and Untwined. The basic setup is that on the top there are orange swirling lines depicting the Ae, which is from where all magical potential (=life energy) comes into the material world. The Ae is labeled as "pure energy", "movement", "potential", "action but static in itself? potential for action". There are vertical orange lines coming from the swirly Ae towards the middle of the page. On their ends, there are little spheres. These symbolize every living thing's magical source and their connection to the Ae. There's a label that says "a mage is able to manipulate life energy and the world with it". And also that the connections have "determined width and capacity, but can be extended with imbuing to a point". The lines of connections are at the same time also arrows pointing down towards the bottom of the page where there is a dark blue "sea" of sorts". The arrows are labelled with "constant pull" and "passive". One little sphere is depcted to fall down into this sea, leaving a little sploosh after it, the sea protruding like when you drop a stone into water. It's labeled as "when someone dies, their material returns [REDACTED], consciousness survives (sometimes) with life energy that returns to the Ae. death = stops resisting, bunch of energy frees". The sploosh is important. There's also a section where a bunch of spheres are depicted as falling down and it's labeled as "corrupted zones, lots of people dying (or imbued)" and that makes a huge sploosh from that sea. There's a big sphere on the right which has a name that's reducted. It's depicted in the process of falling down and the sploosh continually coming up. It's labelled as "letting go of the Ae, controlled fall, "potential" gain, can use immense energy until death". And also "negative action, magic & its antithesis both".
I promise, it's all very cool.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pmwrcihbatdtgrjqfukutybc/bafkreidxvgcckvzkxkudmghz6bhbdwldprohecz5iwj4oo5kiz7az2nqlu@jpeg)