The premise of Ghostbusters is how the team has done enough research into the paranormal, and are able to develop the technology and means to properly detect, combat, and capture them. In The Story of Anima, the titular force has been analyzed to an extent. It's known that everyone can emit it, and its ability to interact with certain minerals known as Catalysts, as well as the fact that some, known as Animus, can harness their Anima directly. However, what Anima is is the subject of many theories, with Soul Power being popular enough to be the reason for the name. And as for the Animus, all that's really known is that some develop the ability after suffering severe trauma.

Corin has a pseudo-relationship with Jin Dalen during Sufficiently Advanced Magic and On the Shoulders of Titans. A spell that functions the same as Haste but for a group of individuals in a specific area. Corin casts this via exhalation much like a lunch mark would cast spells Weapons and Wielders which follows Keras Selyrian after he is teleported to a new land in search of his friends and resources to help change the world. In book one, Jin goes to great lengths to avoid revealing his attunement. It is not until the very end of the book that he revealed that he is in fact a Mesmer. He hid this from everyone because it would reveal his Edrian origin. Dark Legacy Comics: Mad scientist Narya tries to analyze how magic works scientifically, To which he is told isn't the point of magic is that it has no basis in science.

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King's Quest V cites Niven's riff verbatim at one point, using this to justify a scientific device repowering a magic wand. In The Iron Teeth web serial the mage guilds treat magic like a science. They use chemistry and the scientific method to create spell crystals and other devices.

It's all very well a potion calling for Love-in-idleness, but which of the thirty-seven common plants called by that name in various parts of the continent was actually meant? Genius: The Transgression, a fan game, breaks the mould here: all the splats, especially the Scholastics, follow this ethos. Ironically, mad science consists almost entirely of non-repeatable phenomena making it much harder to study than most of the magic and powers from other gamelines. This was a lot of fun. I've never been a huge LitRPG fan, and I felt like this book did a fantastic job of toeing that line, bringing in an abundance of video game influence, without veering into actually being a LitRPG with literal stats and things like that. In his tower, The Archmage casts his fortieth fireball today while his apprentice diligently notes the exact qualities of each. On his workbench are piles of fireball spells yet untested, but the Archmage plans to catalogue them all. Only then can he begin to study what makes one fireball stronger than another.

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Eberron is pretty much based on this. Magic has literally been commercialized and Magitek is widespread. Traveling on a magic-powered passenger train or sending a message to someone via a magical equivalent of a telegraph is seen as perfectly normal by most people. Sufficiently Analyzed Magic is a philosophy, whenever you find wizards, witches, sorcerers, mages, or even regular people who decide that lore and intuition is not enough: They want to understand how magic works and will do so through empirical evidence and experimentation. You have the beginnings of Sufficiently Analyzed Magic. For anyone who has read the book, is the story going to take primary focus over all the RPG elements soon or am I well past the point where I'd know if I'm going to like it or not? I hate to give up a book early for fear of missing out but I don't want to waste hours on something that isn't my cup of tea, either. Adventure Time: Princess Bubblegum vehemently denies the existence of magic, and attributes all its properties to specifically applied scientific principles she thinks are at work. This gets her in hot water with the very large wizard community.

Corin is very introverted and socially inept. He shows aversion to touch, which is implied to be due to his father's strict upbringing/abuse. He is very loyal and goes to great lengths to help his friends even thoughtlessly. He prefers the analytical approach to problems over violence, which can be seen in his preference of puzzle rooms over monster rooms inside the Serpent Spire. He also frequently states his absolute dislike of colored tile puzzles, which is a hidden reference to the author, who is color-blind. He seems to be asexual, but biromantic. In Retribution Falls demonologists are basically scientists who build Magitek (more magic than tech) powered by demons. They're not particularly evil, either. The Optimised Wish Project sees Bulma set out to measure and quantify the use of ki, starting with Goku and expanding to larger sample sizes including the entire Tenkaichi Tournament. Her research leads to devices that allow anyone to greatly expand their capabilities with ki, although it's dangerous without the proper training. The story node " How mages discovered the scientific method " on Everything2 uses this as its central premise. Mostly performed by the Inertia Society in Visiontale, whose members study magic with scientific rigor. Inspired by human Techno Babble, monsters even created Magi Babble to describe magic, and use magic to create magitronic devices, like their versions of smartphones, televisions, and computers.This is basically how the Asura from Guild Wars 2 operate; they look at magic as just another field of science, and apply it accordingly. They have concepts such as Golemancy (robots/ Mini-Mecha that basically use magic for the battery/OS), the Greater Magical Field Theory (conservation of mass/energy as applied to magic), and so forth. Saga of Soul's protagonist is a Magical Girl who, once she obtains her powers, immediately sets out to analyze and experiment with them. She even uses her magic to explore other scientific branches, such as creating unbihexium for physicists to study. Exalted: The way magic works fits in perfectly with this philosophy, and the most powerful users of magic in the First Age (who, incidentally, are called sorcerer- engineers) had a decidedly empirical approach to their craft... to the extent that they harnessed the power of faith, magic, and technology to create the factory-cathedrals, the greatest workshops ever created in any universe. That's right, they actually analyzed the relationship between gods and their worshippers and used it to power Magitek assembly lines.