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I have every other flower, but I don't think I have see the Pink Tulip yet, can someone tell how to get it and if so which phase it is?

Originally I was going to add an "Elemental" system. But rather than being part of the material world, they were magical forces manipulated by a caster to alter their environment. And then I realised that if I wanted to still keep to Fire Water Earth Wind and those kinds of things, I was gonna have an issue of listing every single Energy that was specified. So I ended up changing it into a combat analysis system

Its not used in studies and formal scholars' publishings, but more of a way to determine the method of combat. If they increased the temperature it was Pricalor. If they manipulated the ground to their will they were Teminera. All Energies are those most primarily used and seen. For example, you can manipulate other liquids, but water is the most widely used due to its presence in many things.

Sorry if its chaotic, if you wanna suggest something to add, please do!

Energies are the equivalent of the generic "elements". Instead of being the fabric of the universe, however, an Energy is a power or force that can shift and alter the environment of a magic user who enforces their willpower upon their surroundings.
There are many Energies, as there are many things that can be manipulated in the material world. However, some Energies have been said to control that on the mind and spirit.
Energies are horribly named due to the common folk interpreting them as something else related to their base form. For example, what they deem "Fire" is in fact the manipulation of heat for it to increase.

The thing is, after I finished making this, I realised that I needed one for Earth, or Wind. Do I just make things up like "Certain minerals and elements are manipulated but not the entire ground itself" or do I just make an entirely different Energy for those other ones?

Firstly, what is the definition of magic? It has been a debated question for many centuries in my world's timeline, and its one of those philosophical questions that seem basic but is not so easy to put into words. Its like the basic question of life. We can define magic as something supernatural defying the laws of the natural order and mechanisms for the operation of the world. Once the definition of magic is done, we have to face the reasons it works. Why does it happen? Eventually this has led writers and philosophers to have been known to jump off their study balconies in utter despair. Eventually, a group of writers agreed that magic was based off the will and desire to control and manipulate, meaning this would link it to the Imagination, an Ideal that was once thought to play little role in the universe. Eventually, Mavia, the power in living beings or artifacts to use magic, was discovered.

After that, there are the Energies. Unlike Elements, which are the material fabric of the universe, Energies are the powers that can change the surroundings they have the user's will concentrated upon. Fire is not an Element. It is a change in the air, causing combustion. There are several methods of manipulation of magic, such as Levitation of Earth, that are linked to such Energies. In this case, Levitation is the manipulation of the Gravity of the surrounding, not the Earth itself.

Now there is the power of usage. Mavia. Think of the body as a maze that you can customise to your wishes. You can block off passages, open new exits, and even add to the breathtaking complex. At the center is your Mavia, which is practically infinite but usage depends on the ability of the user to handle the immense power. Now, when you cast a spell, you open the gates of your Mavia pool by an amount, to generate the power for the spell. The Mavia is free flowing, you cannot directly control it, but you can use the maze around it to control where it goes! You can block and open the passages or change the walls of your maze, but be careful not to make sharp turns or send the Mavia to the wrong places. This is how casting fails. The Mavia is like a stream of water flowing through a pipe. One wrong design failure, and whoops! You made a supersonic water stream cutter. In this case, the Mavia either goes out the wrong exit and the resulting spell is extremely unstable, or it basically just smashes through the walls of the maze to pick its own route.

Then there are spell scrolls, spell circles and incantations that people use to help cast spells. They don't directly cast the spell by themselves, they are basically there to allow the person to imagine the maze of their Mavia. Spell circles or scrolls inscribed on something do not exude any magical power. Unless the person uses the circles or scrolls as their medium to cast, they do not do anything special, like lift of the ground and start spinning and glowing with whooshing noises. If you see a caster with spell circles surrounding them in midair, just light (Not pure light because the light needs a medium to shine through), then their concentration probably causes the surrounding dust/debris to rise up and show said concentration through that. Many researchers are still finding the exact details into this phenomenon, but its hard to get someone to willingly exhaust themselves over casting a spell so the researchers can observe close up.

Using magic through a weapon is a related but slightly different story. Think of anything, a wand, a sword, a staff, whatever you want to use to cast, and then imagine it as a computer. You enter code into the computer, commanding it to carry out a task. The spell is the code. The tricky part is getting the spell in there, and somehow making it come out of the weapon. This is difficult because the object is usually inanimate (Casting using companions or animals is not that common, but exists), and it does not have a will to carry it to the outside world. This bottleneck often makes casters use the good old classic of barehanded spellwork, though those who don't feel good with aim, damage or looks can still use weapons.

So yeah, there's my concept for magic. Sorry if its long or chaotic.