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Video transcript
So tell me there's a new type of magic in the Explorer's Guide to Wild Mount. It's not school, but it's a new type of magic. that is very unique. dormancy. Yeah. dormancy is it's a new family. I guess you could say of magic that a new school, but is it is a collection of spells and a type of an offshoot of the standard arcane practice that was developed by the Korean Dynasty through their worship of of the Lux in this, this light entity and the beacons that they began to uncover, which were these these artifacts of. Potentiality and kind of for for the layman's term scenario esoteric spacetime magic if you will and so Nancy is a a collection of of of magic in a practice of magic that works around probability and potentiality The idea that every person that goes through life every decision they make every major choice every major action that that changes the world around them. that has ripples a butterfly effect on every other creature around the world as they progress through it and choose. Their destiny in the next timeline that comes to fruition the vibrating potential of the universe towards that choice itself as an energy, you know that that anticipation you feel in a horror movie before you're you're getting to a major moment that you know that's coming that type of raising vibration. That is the Dunamis that builds to that choice. And so do Nancy is the ability to take that growing vibrating power of potentiality and crafting it into magic and using it to manipulate the world on its very base core elements So you have spells that affect gravity that affect time and it's it's it's progression and passing the probability of the choices you make to to kind of help nudge and adjust the pads you take in the world to your favor into the favor of others to rip through an alternate timelines and dimensions and send physically or mentally creatures through that space. it's it's a little esoteric. It falls. definitely in my my. A longstanding love of you know, physics astrophysics metaphysic quantum physics all I kinda room there and bringing it a little more into the realm of Dean. Fantasy arcane practice That's gonna be very fun. And there's there's a type of magic that doesn't certainly there are some spells that are like that indeed, but I've always wanted a ton of spouse like that. Yeah thematically Haste slow time stop. you know a reverse gravity. These are all spells that fallen in a room that is you know in a similar pocket to a dormancy is, but they've pulled from it without knowing what was beyond it. You know you've dabbled in elements of time. Magic didn't realize that beyond that curtain, there is a whole sub sect of magic that focused on these very basic element. Universe When you consider you know all of creation, you know water water is one of the basic elements, but water doesn't exist all over the universe necessarily you know at the core, the very creation of of the universe as we know it in a a a a physical level in the real world, you know gravity time. these are all things that are absolutely necessary in our ever present in all facets of creation and so I wanted to kind of expand upon. Very, very primal basis of the universe for a lot of these spells and what they manipulate to take it away from the more elemental aspects of the classically DND magic revolves around and so that's kind of where the inspiration came from and where that focus and the thinking of the Green dynasties. you know religious beliefs are based on. Can you tell me about some of the spells that are in there? Specifically, I can tell you about some of the spells in there. I know you can't tell me about all of them. I can't talk about all of them Are familiar with the the show may have seen one of our characters. Caleb has acquired a handful of dormancy spells through the adventure. I wonder what you see in here is fortunes favor. fortunes favor is spell that you can cast that creates a a fragment of possibility, a mode of condensed economists that a person essentially absorbs and keeps around them, and it allows them to adjust a moment of probability in their favor. It essentially gives them the equivalent of a luck point if you're familiar with the luck feet, but it's a spell. Did I lock point that lasts for an hour if you will and higher levels can disseminate amongst multiple targets and so it gives you the ability to roll an additional 20 for any sort of Dtwenty role for an attack for ability, check for saving throat and then choose the better of what's available. this is Billy Gravity Fisher, which is you know, we're familiar with the line spells of lightning, bolt and stuff like that. Imagine a line spell that fired out and before dealing damage sucked everything within 10 feet of it towards the Center. if they feel they're saving throw and then crushing them with. Gravitational force so a lot of these gravity based spells are not just damaged dealing spells. They also have a utility of adjusting and manipulating the battlefield very control of slowing things down, holding them in place, preventing them from leaving a location from shifting them to a place. You want them to be so you become a little more of like the chess player controller of the battlefield with a lot of these spells. There's also get into the higher level stuff. There's a reality break, which is a spell where you get. Actually take a creature and every round they roll to see what type of strange dimensional alteration you trust them through. there's where the confusion spell. It's a similar type of the beginning of every features around you roll a dice to see what happens to them, but it can be anywhere from them being thrown into a cosmic horror type alternate forearm reality, and then spat back out to the end of the round and the terrible things that happened in the meantime they could all of a sudden have echoes of themselves from other dying realities tearing into this dimension and trying to kill themselves to take their place. You know so it's. It it, it's very weird and and dimension you know, crossover Strangeness and I'm pretty happy with it and it's got a cool piece of art in the book. specifically for that sounds very pretty great. Yeah. see how all sorts of fun fun spells in that room that I'm excited for people to test out and try the such a good narrative hook to that's why I like about this this this type of magic is narrative. It opens up an entire can of worms. I was like to play with I love playing with time. I mean who doesn't wanna cast a spell that creates essentially a black hole Dark star in the Middle of the battlefield starts sucking everything. Oblivion No one I wanna know Yeah, I thought his fear of annihilation was bad. Oh my God. that's so fun. I am so excited for this magic and now we have to wait till March. I know I go by faster than you think Trust me time goes quicker these days. Matt Thank you so much for your time. I'm so incredibly excited for the book and I'm very excited for you. I think it's fantastic to know that you are now like one of the stewards of DVD and that your universe is now part of it. It's surreal. I'm I'm very thankful for everyone. For giving me the opportunity, I'm thankful for the incredible collaboration from all the writers that contributed to this book and I really hope I hope all you guys enjoy it. I'm really excited about it. 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