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About it
Ars Magica is a tabletop rpg made in 1987, with the setting being a medieval fantasy that takes place mostly in Europe around AD 1200.Here is a sandbox for the verse page:
Oblivion Of The Endless/AM
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Tier 0
The verse has a supreme being, called God (among other names). I believe it qualifies for a Tier 0 rating. You can check its sandbox here:
Oblivion Of The Endless/G
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Overview of God's rating:
- God is a unity. He is a single, whole, complete, indivisible entity. He cannot be divided into parts or described by attributes. Any attempt to ascribe attributes to God is merely man’s imperfect attempt to understand the infinite.
- God is Oneness, he cannot be put into attributes.
- All is One, and this One is God.
- God is the Ultimate Reality.
- God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent.
- God is the Ein Sof, being so transcendent that he is completely unknowable, beyond descriptions.
- God is eternal, he has neither a beginning nor an end, transcending time. God is the Unmoving Absolute that does not suffer any change, only his creations change.
- God can do anything no matter what, his miracles are the ultimate plot device.
- God is the ultimate authority.
- Even the Universals, which are Platonic forms, are merely thoughts within God's mind.
High 1-A+
There are some things in this verse that would scale to High 1-A+ if God is Tier 0, namely:Keter
God created the Tree of Life (the Ten Sefirot), which includes Keter, which represents God's mind:Since Keter is God's mind, it would be High 1-A+ (Type 2), basically falling into this:
Chokmah
There is also Chokmah, which is the sum total of all possibilities of existence. Everything that might conceivably come into being at any time is already contained within Chokmah. But I'm not sure what tier this would be if Keter is already High 1-A+.Angels, Saints, and other agents:
A Miracle is the direct intervention of God into reality. A such, they are the "ultimate plot device", can do anything "no matter what", cant fail, and cant be resisted.- Angels can become a divine conduct for God's miracles, allowing them to enact the Will of God. Angels by themselves are fallible, but when they are acting on God's command they are infallible.
- Not only angels, but Saints and other people of God's choosing can become an agent for his Miracles. So much so, that it's stated, for instance, that Saints by themselves have no power, their power is literally just God using his own power through those Saints, with God allowing said Saints to use his power at their discretion.
1-A(?)
This would be for Plato's Universals/realm of ideas:
- Without a form, matter is simply the potentiality of a thing to exist. The form (not to be confused with a Hermetic Form) is the outline and design — the template, if you will — of what matter will become. The form of a dog, for example, is the very essence of dogness, the thing that makes a dog recognizable as a dog regardless of its size, color, demeanor, and so forth. All things that have existed, do exist, or will exist have a form, even if that thing has no physicality, such as Justice or Truth.
- Plato stated that Virtue in itself is a thing; a non-corporeal, external entity that exists outside our reality. According to Plato, for a thing to be true, it must exist, or “be.” Its existence must be eternal, without beginning or end, universal, always the same and not changing, and known through the mind, existing outside the physical senses. Plato called these external truths forms or ideas, and the entire collection of these forms are referred to as his universals. Of all the universals, the highest form is the form of Good. Plato described the form of Good as the guiding principle for all the forms, setting up a three-tiered theory of reality. The form of Good creates and defines all the other universals, known collectively as the Intellect, because they are perceived through reason, and all the universals together create reality, which Plato calls the Soul, since reality is perceived through the senses. This tripartite theory of Good \ the Intellect \ the Soul will be generally accepted by later thinkers. Universals are a cornerstone of medieval thought, philosophy, and even theology.
- A Platonic form is the perfect template for any subject in reality. They are unchangeable, have no beginning or end, exist outside reality, and can only be known through reason.
Magic Resistance & Penetration
Magic Resistance is something that everyone with the Gift has. Thus, normal/mundane beings do not have it.You can find Magic Resistance in Mages and Creatures (if the creature is mystical/belongs to a realm/has the Gift).
Mages always have an inherent magic resistance value, allowing them to resist any spell if the enemy mage does not have enough Penetration value to get past it. If you want to affect an enemy mage with any spell, the Penetration total value needs to be higher than their magic resistance value, otherwise the spell will simply fail. This is supported by Magic Resistance being stated to inherently protect the Mage from all types of supernatural power.
Another example of this is the Magic Resistance from True Faith. If you dont have the necessary Penetration value, the mage will resist all supernatural powers that you might throw at them.
Should be noted that a Magic Resistance value of 0 still means the character has Magic Resistance, with the enemy mage still requiring a Penetration value of 1 to affect them with spells.
Overall, this means that if a Mage has a magic resistance value of, for example, 20, then they'd have 20 layers of Resistance to all magic spells.
Likewise, if a mage has a total Penetration value of 20, it'd mean their spells bypass 20 layers of resistance.
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