Spellcrafting, then, is using the elements of pieces you've learned to compose something new.Īs far as why magic is getting "less powerful"? I honestly think that's just game development laziness/streamlining. Sure, other games and areas had different spells with different effects, but maybe the Mages in Cyrodiil just prefer teaching the techniques of Liszt over Chopin. Anyone who studies piano can buy a copy of a Chopin etude to learn, and any destruction mage can purchase a spell tome for Fireball. The dragonborn isnt going to be able to play Bach the same way as Divayth just because they took half a semester of violin at the College of Winterhold. Divayth Fyr has been studying cello for thousands of years. Now, in music, it's likely not everyone will be able to do everything. Even alchemy is just the use of the magical properties of specific plants and whatnot. It leaks into Mundus from Aetherius through the sun and stars, and is present, in some capacity, in basically everything. Some people are able to practice and develop a talent for manipulating sound, either through the use of tools or just their physiology, to wonderous effect. Sound exists for us as just a fact of life, an element of nature. I like to think of magic as similar to music (which dovetails nicely into things like tonal architecture btw, though not intentionally). This post has turned into a rant about inconsistencies but the question remains how the hell does magic work in The Elder Scrolls Universe? If magic is some sort of force if it is something that you can master, then why is it that magic in the current era is so weak compared to previous ones? When it comes to learning how to do something, a group of people, especially one focused on such "something", tend to improve generation by generation (unless some sort of catastrophe happens which I'm not aware of in the third and fourth era). My question is, who wrote those tomes? How did the author come up with those spells? Is magic an invisible force that you use to alter things? If so, what determines your ability to change such things? Divayth Fyr was able to create female clones of himself yet I'm only able to create a permanent risen undead (which are so prominent in catacombs and caves that I don't think it is such an achievement).
In the Elder Scrolls games we learn magic by buying and reading tomes (at least, that's what Skyrim revealed because, until now, it was just a menu that opened up when you wanted to buy a spell). I have been playing Elder Scrolls games for a long time now and it hasn't been until a played a mage in Skyrim that I wondered: How the hell does magic work?
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