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Interesting informations, especially the concept of black magic, i.e. tapping sap directly from the planet. That concept would show that homins' normally used magic indeed differs from that of the Kami whom I assume to directly access the living planet's sap. Further on, I do not think that Kamis need incantations, cast times, or cooldowns like homins.

So I might agree that probably the nature of homin and kami magic is the same, as a magic using the sap, and the homin magic probably derived from kami magic (Luth would disagree, here). But there are grave differences, too, as it seems.

Has there been any mention of black magic during the last years, or during the "reign" of Winchgate? Probably not, it would otherwise be rather a domain of the marauders.

But again, I want to stress that none of the concepts of how to deal with goo in the past was "wrong" or less valid. I confess that I have troubles to understand the effect of magnetism on goo, as magnetism, for me, is intuitively linked to Maxwell's equations, and there, goo is hard to integrate. Yet I must accept that and integrate it in our new world. And I would agree that homins never in our "modern age" of Atys achieved to remove goo from larger terrains so I understand the notion that goo in larger quantity cannot be destroyed and sick lands be recovered.