Episode 111 of the Letters Page: Magic in the Multiverse

Alright people I expect lots of questions for the Editor’s Note where we go “well actually magic works like....”

http://theletterspage.libsyn.com/episode-111-magic-in-the-multiverse

I am already working on a hero named Basketball Wizard.

There has to be a twist.

So, any insights on the Ra/Ennead original plane?  Refugees from a doomed plane of existence is certainly not something I saw coming...

my only question, if Anubus sends his evil souls to his origional plane, where did anput send her souls?

I'm gonna guess she's got her own pocket dimension for keeping souls in, where Anubis can't get to them. Just a secret little place no one else knows about.

Classically "Duat" would be proper name for home world of deific Egyptians 

This episode being today is an almost magical coincidence, because today I read a very obscure comic about an alien space warlord whose power is magical it’s a comic called Dreadstar, but I have no idea who Dreadstar is, because he didn’t appear in this comic at all, the whole thing was about his antagonist. The guy is the “Lord Papal” of an interstellar empire clearly modeled on the Catholic Church in medieval times, complete with crucifixion and inquisitors. He communes with the twelve space gods that he gets his magic from, and he definitely calls it magic in his internal monologue, but he concludes that the all-powerful aliens aren’t really gods, because they have needs which he’s providing for it’s a very weird story to have set in space.

Forest spirit? I think you mean Grassland spirit! Savannah spirit?

The loosely Christian upbringing of C&A is extremely apparent in their definition of magic. I have an extremely different attitude on the subject; I don’t think magic is this inherently dark and dangerous thing, it’s just the capacity to rewrite reality, and is no more light or dark than the person doing it.

So Cantrip is definitively (ha!) the reason why the Fey Court is a deck in Definitive Edition

Earth has at least twice been resettled by a group of superpowered refugees - first the Egyptian gods, and now the Maerinyans.

“Clearing steer” lol.

I would define essence, spirit and soul very specifically. The Egyptian mythology concept of spirit or essence was basically the Ka, while the Ba was effectively the mind; they also had a bunch of other parts of the self, possibly as many as nine or ten of them, and “soul” is what you call the whole collection. I get a lot of this conceptualization from the White Wolf RPGs Mummy the Resurrection and Mummy the Curse, which are slightly different takes on that myth-cycle. I figure that no other culture in history has been quite as invested in death and the soul than ancient Egypt, so I like using their names for this model.

The ending cracked me up. Both of them trying to top each other until they both break on the same line, that was great. This is definitely one of my favorite episodes.