The biggest copout in a fantasy story is when the author (in the form of one of the characters) has something happen as a result of some magic spell or item of power and when the illogic begins to rain down just says, "It's magic, it doesn't need any reason."  Well, I'm here to say that it does.  EVERYTHING in a story needs a reason, logic, and purpose.

I've said it before, that in the context of any story magic is simply a power like any other that can be tapped.  It has its own attributes and rules, just like electricity and gravity.  It is up to the writer to determine what these rules are.  None of the characters might know what those rules are, or they might word them in more esoteric or poetic forms, but that backdrop of logic needs to be there nonet...

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