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Equestrian magic compared to Fate's magic. · 3:37pm Apr 30th, 2018

where would Equestria's magic stand in the Fate verse? would it be on the level as normal magic in modern times or would it be on the level of one of the true magics?

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Eqestria's magic would be childish and weak to Fate considering the mana that is available to both. Fate having less due to the people waning in ability. Eqestria has a huge advantage (and laziness) with magic due to the amount and often brute force things to happen.
(edit) Oh you asked time wise, the amount is for would be along the timeline of age of gods in fate, however the actually spell craft while would line up for the age, it isn't as grand or power as Fate's spell casters of that time.

I don't know. I think it would go to a good mid range in comparison to Fate magic. It's more intuitive being thought based but less powerful. An item raises that form of magic to high levels acting like a focus channeling more mana. Since Equestria doesn't have very many focusing artifacts at best it's a mid range spell system.

Also yes they are very lazy with creating new spells.

4850634
i see... bit what about the whole moving the sun and moon? or how equestria magic can defying the law of nature while the fate verse mostly are grounded with a lot of ground rules.
(i hope i'm not coming off as if i'm arguing. just trying to make sense of fate magic because it seems to have a lot of contradicting rules)

4850655
have they made any new spells in the show? i haven't seen season 8 yet, but last time i saw the show it seemed like they are still piggybacking off of other people's work. for someone with the talent of magic and the element of magic, twilight doesn't seem to really TRY creating spells.

4850658
Again this isn't due to magic itself and seems to be a connections like a god of the sun would have with his sun, allowing for ease of movement. When the Unicorn moved it, it stated to be a group and with no explanation on how they did it the spell work is unknown thus is hard to use as a example. As I said it seems like all the magic in MLP is brute force, inefficient due to the lack of need for efficiency. Where Fate you always needed it even when magic was abundant it was needed to counter or at least hold off beings far more powerful.
(No worries, I don't think you're coming off like that) (edit I put again out of mistake as I've spoken to somehow about this before.)

4850663
There hasn't been any real spellcrafting. And there is something to say that most magic is geared towards specialized fields meaning that there isn't any one source of spell crafting with spells being fix and worked off of throughout the series. Star Swirl is still the only working mate who finds new spells.

I don't even know where to start!

4850673
true, but man, i bet the mages in fate would be drooling at the thought of such a large amount of mana in equestria... hmm might to make that a factor in Fate/Sunset.

4850761
kinda of sad that we don't see new spells being made. just old ones being found or remade. might have to have twilight or sunset, or starlight make a new one in one of my fics

4850655

4850781
There is also a relation it seems to MLP:FIM between a Mages Origins & cutie marks.

4850832
Yes a mages origin is basically how they source their magic, and the- https://www.fimfiction.net/group/202909/type-moon/thread/357354/type-pony-theory-3-cutie-marks-and-their-origins-explained This person and their forum post explains it FAR better than I ever can. It's really cool actually, the person posted more stuff, that's also cool.

4850781
Would work out well but in what vein though?

4850901
Like what style? Offensive, defensive, buffs, debuffs, status, temporal, dimensional, utility that sort of thing.

4851013
ah it depends on when i do it and for what story

4851025
Yup. Gotta have a spell for every situation

Makes me wonder if Cutie Marks are in any way related to Fate's concepts of Affinities and Origins.

hows the next chapter for sunset's group coming along?

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