[UA] Orphomancy?- what do you think?

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j.kinman wrote:

>I was thinking of a new style of magic- that connected with music...
>I mean magic has allways been thought to have some magic about it, magic can
>alter ones moods, alledley charm animals, and all through mythology there
>are magic drums trumpets etc... what do you think?
>It could have a similar charge system to that of the clockworkers, that is
>it takes you one day to compose a minor "composition"
>say a week and a meaning sacrifice of some kind: a pet you have had for
>several months, some piece of memorabilia you have treasured from childhood,
>a large quantity of money... or perhaps a day and some blood, or a day and
>the burning of a famous piece of music/ famous instrument/ the baton of a
>famous composer to create a significant composition
>Finally for major spells you could have to spend months writting it, before
>playing it with a full orchestra and a human sacrifice?
>
>You would cast it by playing the piece, simple, and the effects would be to
>do with manipulation or summoning perhaps? The blasts could be say "The
>tugging of the heart" where the usual sadness sometimes assosiated with
>beautiful music becomes an actual pain... and the major is "the wrenching of
>the heart" maybe? Were the agony is excrutiating, perhaps fatal...
>
>Conversely the music could make you happy, with varying degrees for
>different levels, loyal, or make people follow you pied piper-esque?
>
>Maybe each adept would have his own instrument and his taboo would be to
>play anything other than it, or to allow it to come to harm, something like
>that
>
>Sorry, just a hotch potch of ideas, I thought I would see what you think

Actually, I've been tossing around ideas for a school like this for a
while, some sort of art-based school, charges gathered by creating works
of art, etc.

I think the sacrifice part would be, that you'd have to write a piece of
music about something personal to you, and spread it to the public,
effectively giving up a part of your life to the masses. The taboo could
be something tricky like, you can never actually play or sing the music
yourself, or tell people how to play it, or try to exert your own
influence over it: you have to let power of the art take its own course.
And I love your blast idea.

But I'm stuck as to what 'domain' this school would be. If you used the
charge-gathering I just spewed out it would probably be something like
'ownership', to go with the giving-up-a-personal-thing concept...


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