Efficacy

Myriad Reality

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Why is it different than regular magic?

@Meta

Regular magic changes things directly. It's blunter, messier. It can probably do a lot of, if not all of, the same things that the Sevenfold Covenant can do on the surface. Both a new kidney and a kidney dialysis will clean up your blood. But the Covenant is cleaner and more efficient. It fine-tunes the universe so that the universe will do things for you, just like a new kidney will clean up your blood without the work a dialysis requires.

Myriad Reality

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Pretty much.

@Meta

Instead of reaching in and trying to change things artificially, like with a pacemaker or by cutting out as much of a tumour as you can, the Sevenfold Covenant makes--or lets--things change naturally by changing what is natural, like replacing a bad kidney with a working one or killing tumour cells so that the body knows to get rid of them.

Myriad Reality

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How much else can I explain?

@Meta

How is my analogy correct, are you asking?

Myriad Reality

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*Groans*

@Meta

I'm sorry. I'm confused as to what you're trying to understand.

Myriad Reality

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How does it make sense?

@Meta

How does what make sense?

Myriad Reality

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How?

@Meta

How to which?

Myriad Reality

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I guess.

@Meta

I wish I could figure out a better analogy. If magic cuts you open to remove a tumour, then the Sevenfold Covenant kills the tumour and lets the body get rid of it on its own. If magic is a pacemaker, the Sevenfold Covenant is a heart transplant. If magic is dialysis, the Sevenfold Covenant is a better kidney.

Myriad Reality

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Understanding everything we were just talking about.

@Meta

Why the Covenant is different from normal magic?

Myriad Reality

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That's the problem. I'm putting as much effort into understanding this as I can, but I just can't.

@Meta

Understanding the Sevenfold Covenant's magic?

Myriad Reality

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But you just added magic into the idea, so it doesn't work anymore. If you do that, I could just poof it away without ever cutting them open.

@Meta

Um. Wow, I'm bad with analogies.