# Thoughts, Thoughts and More Thoughts **URL:** \ **Category:** Wars of Light and Shadow\ **Tags:** Other\ **Created:** [June 13, 2013, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.paravia.com/t/thoughts-thoughts-and-more-thoughts/622 "2013-06-13T12:17:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![jannywurts](https://forum.paravia.com/user_avatar/forum.paravia.com/jannywurts/32/31_2.png) [@jannywurts](https://forum.paravia.com/u/jannywurts)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 12:09pm UTC](https://forum.paravia.com/t/thoughts-thoughts-and-more-thoughts/622/5 "2013-06-15T12:09:00Z")
Hello the Wastelander, welcome here! You Asked: the 'magic' in Paravia is based on very real physics - resonance and frequency, (sound and light) - the electromagnetic spectrum, the quantum, and a few things off the edge of what current science can 'measure'. Quartz is piezo-electric, and certain rod crystals (Tourmaline, etc) also polarize light. All of those things have been encorporated, but the physical properties and the esoteric. As for the compass points: there are SO MANY angles of cultural belief that engage them, it would be hard NOT to 'feel' as if they connected, somehow, somewhere. I DID want to create a unified field - of sorts - between what we have, what we know, and what is fictional and what is playful speculation. I wanted Athera to 'live' and function - and resonate - with many foundational concepts. Not create a 'game' or a 'magic system' so much as create a believable whole. If I have succeeded, it ought to 'tap into' many root ideas, from a lot of eclectic sources, and also from experience, combined with the unbridled use of the imagination. As to 'what is not yet disclosed' - heh - the series is not to closure Yet!!! --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.paravia.com/t/thoughts-thoughts-and-more-thoughts/622)._