Magic

Magic in the world of the Laws of Magic, is, as the title of the series suggest, a system with observable and understandable rules that govern its effects. Its study and understanding has grown alongside science, into a rational discipline with applications in use across a variety of aspects of life, including military, domestic life, medical, sporting, and engineering.

The Nature of Magic and the fundamental aspects of it, such as how certain humans are able to manipulate it, are topics of intense debate among magical scholars. Current theories tend towards the idea that human consciousness generates a magical field, denser the more people congregate, and certain individuals have the innate ability to direct and channel it through spoken spells.

Language is at the base of effective spell casting. In order to cast a spell, variables, constants, dimensions, duration, and other terms must be embedded, or the spell may become out of control or have an undesired effect.

Doctor Tremaine compared magic to other phenomena such as electricity, magnetism, and light, with some similar properties to each [BoG, 14]

Other theories suggest magic is like an invisible fluid that fills the universe, or a form of power accessed from or bestowed by creatures unknown.