Post by DC on Sept 4, 2014 18:00:45 GMT -5
Gravitational magic is, as its name implies, a magic that bends or creates new gravity and flow of it. A gravitational magic trained person could very well create a more intense gravity field, or a lighter one. He or she could intensify an object's gravitational pull, or reverse the gravitational pull an object has to repel other items from it. This is another specific field of magic, however, this has a few different "sub-categories" that it is broken down into.
Gravitational Pull:
Gravitational pull, to no surprise, is the amount of pull an object has on the objects around it. A much lesser-known fact is that every object that exists and is tangible has a gravitational pull, however, often it is so insignificant that you will never be able to feel it no matter how hard you try. Gravitational Magic School students universally understand this fact, and can intensify that gravitational pull to become noticeable, and even possibly damaging. Sometimes, if the student is lucky, they can even have this effect work on other beings, ultimately causing even the largest of creatures to crumble into themselves if given enough mana and/or time.
Gravitational Push:
As no great surprise, gravitational push is the exact opposite of gravitational pull. However, not every object has a gravitational push. Rather, this is a slightly more complex version of gravitational magic, as it requires both intensifying the gravitational field's potency as well as reversing the effects to "push" instead of "pull". Gravitational push magic generally requires more mana, however, if used correctly, it can altar the battle in amazing ways. Given enough time, a Gravitational Adept can make themselves give a strong enough "push" that will make it tremendously harder to even land a hit on them. Only masters of the art have truly learned how to do this without tiring themselves out quickly, because gravitational magic is not permanent.
Overall, gravitational magic uses time, and so it can only be upheld as long as you have mana. That having been said, just using one gravitational effect an entire battle will drain you. There is no gravitational spell that will linger and does not progressively eat away at your mana. To put it into MMORPG perspective, gravitational spells are spells that are AoE (Area of Effect) and "DoT" (Damage over Time). But the longer the spell is upheld, the less mana you will have to do other things. Having enough mastery of it to not eat away at your mana constantly requires about twenty years of training, and even then, it would require daily training starting at the earliest ages of conscious thoughts.
