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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

A History of Magic: The History of Illusion (D&D)

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The earliest illusion magic appears to have been failed attempts at conjuration. As we all know matter is an extremely dense repository of energy. While modern researchers can have detailed formulae by which to calculate exactly what these ratios are it took substantial trial and error for early conjurers to realize how much energy exists in even the smallest sliver of matter. Some of these early experiments proved capable of producing phantasmal results. Ghost images of the desired objects and effects. The majority of these effects were disregarded as outright failures while others would provide the ultimate groundwork for the basic conjurations we know today. A few, however, lived on as minor tricks, demonstrations, and even the occasional practical joke.