
134 ◾ Game Magic
that fuel spellcasting come from another world—oen, multiple other
worlds. Many contemporary RPGs allude to alternate planes as the source
of all magic, such as the Aetherium in Skyrim and the Fade in Dragon
Age: Origin. e cosmological images that show up in conjunction with
schools of magic—trees of life, stars of chaos, winds of magic—are oen
ultimately pictures of an entire universe or, more frequently, multiverse.
Planar magic is one of the most interesting and neglected schools of
magic because it involves a voyage into other realities. e planes are
pure, abstract manifestations of particular facets of reality