The Rules of Magic, According to… Well, Everything, Ever

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If you have ever wanted to figure out how magic works, go could do more wrong than to peruse this exhaustive compilation of magic systems in fantasy fiction, complied and displayed by io9. We’re going to post the biggest snippet of it we can behind the jump, but it leaves out several columns and a significant portion of the bottom of the chart. Here we go:

Well, that’s as much as we are physically capable of showing you. The list is alphabetical, so at Mists of Avalon, there’s still plenty of stuff to read over at io9, and they’re taking suggestions of things they left out. Go check it out!


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