Are You Writing Serious Fantasy?

[Naaramare]

Hoping for the distinctions between magic and magick. I can guess, but you got me curious

Mmm. That depends on whether you mean in real life or in my story.

In real life, what the religion known as Witchcraft does in rituals and so forth, we call magick. We add the k essentially to give the word a slightly different look from "magic".

That's because there is in the public mind an image that comes with "magic". Well, actually, there's two: the stage-magician, with sleight-of-hand and so forth; the other is the image of the sword-and-sorcery mage who can wave his hands, say a few words and end up with a house standing on end.

This is not what Witches do, but we do consider our rituals magic . . .to avoid the wrong mental image, we add a k to the end of the word, changing association. ^^

Within my story, I use that real life distinction. "Magic" is what my elves and various mages do, things that have immediate impact that can be measured. "Magick" on the other hand, is reference to all the faith-based things, like rituals, prayers . . .they have an effect on magic and on the rest of the world, but one that's impossible to measure or really predict.