Board Thread:The Last Sovereign Discussion/@comment-27713488-20181103233945/@comment-29984007-20190429155512

Decanter:

Interesting that there's an "arcane axis" Riala can take us along even though there's supposedly no such fundamental. [from patreon comment] "normal-people" response:

Riala: "But... the differences between elves and humans, their relative magic, it's such a complex phe-"

Alonon: "No. The complexity might describe a useful emergent property, but it is not fundamentally reality."

Arcane magic exist, it's not a pure theoretical construct, you can study arcane magic, you can cast arcane magic. it's no fundamental component of the reality, but a property create by the interaction between elements beyond the fundamental level.

"physics-fetish" response:

the requirment for creating an "axis" is the ability to mesure someting, in our world there are a small number of fundamental particles and even fewer interactions between them, this create a fuckton amount of misurable properties. for example the entropy isn't a fundamental component of reality, even the temperature isn't a building block (you can derive it from the velocity of the particles in the object you want measuring the temperature) but you can measure temperature, or entropy (or even the mass, but this is a little beyond my knowledge) and follow the direction maximizing/minimizing it. if you can measure arcane magic you can create a graph with an axis for arcane magic and follow that direction.