Magic's always hard to explain. Strange knows that fae magic is different, that it's not English magic, but actually putting the words to his thoughts is harder than expected. It's like describing music, or an artist explaining why they used one brush stroke instead of another: it just is.
Still, Strange is the sort of person to talk even if they have nothing to say. So, he gives it a shot. "English magic is relational. Most of my spells involve asking an element to do something: ask the water to show me an image, ask the vines to spread and grab someone, things like that. Sometimes it's a bit esoteric--after all, asking the mirrors to make a door doesn't sound like something mirrors could do. I imagine that eventually my spells could get to a point where a verbal component isn't needed for some. I'm almost there with fire, myself." After all, fire wants to burn and it's perfectly easy to make a simple agreement to let the fire do what it wants.
"If we're comparing fae magic to English magic, then the fae have already gone above and beyond me with regards to those relations. I have to ask the tree to bear fruit, the fae are already so connected with the tree that they simple think it. Likewise, there's some magic that I simply can't do while the fae can. I can't do any sort of magic involving the mind. For example, the fae can reach in and change someone's memories or their personality."
Strange looks like he can ramble on about this sort of thing forever, hypothesizing about magic until the day ends. He's a big ol'nerd.
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Still, Strange is the sort of person to talk even if they have nothing to say. So, he gives it a shot. "English magic is relational. Most of my spells involve asking an element to do something: ask the water to show me an image, ask the vines to spread and grab someone, things like that. Sometimes it's a bit esoteric--after all, asking the mirrors to make a door doesn't sound like something mirrors could do. I imagine that eventually my spells could get to a point where a verbal component isn't needed for some. I'm almost there with fire, myself." After all, fire wants to burn and it's perfectly easy to make a simple agreement to let the fire do what it wants.
"If we're comparing fae magic to English magic, then the fae have already gone above and beyond me with regards to those relations. I have to ask the tree to bear fruit, the fae are already so connected with the tree that they simple think it. Likewise, there's some magic that I simply can't do while the fae can. I can't do any sort of magic involving the mind. For example, the fae can reach in and change someone's memories or their personality."
Strange looks like he can ramble on about this sort of thing forever, hypothesizing about magic until the day ends. He's a big ol'nerd.