Is psionic energy considered a form of magic?

At least Mystra, the Mother of Mysteries who is in charge of the net, is so convinced that she even tries to invite a mysterious psionic deity to her kingdom to let this strange secret art flourish.

Is psionic energy really a form of magic?

Every caster who uses magic to weave miracles is adamantly opposed to this view, and no matter what region or school they come from, they firmly refuse to admit that "psionic magic," an ability that is not driven by magic, can be called magic. There are even some radical schools of magic that directly characterize psionic energy as "a kind of spell-like ability, which is essentially a genetic mutation phenomenon after the excessive distortion of the mental power of intelligent creatures".

Although this view is inevitably biased, the psionics that appear in people's eyes are either innate psionic races such as psychic monsters, gray dwarves, and Gisyankees, or only some psionic families are intermittently passed down on the surface by kinship.

Unable to form an education system, and the inheritance is extremely dependent on blood, it is not uncommon for such groups of casters to be formed. For example, those warlock families who have intermarried with magical creatures to gain spell-casting abilities do not need to undergo strict spell-casting training, as long as they focus on activating the power hidden in their bloodlines.

From this point of view, psionics are not so special, they are just a kind of warlock bloodline with extremely powerful spiritual power.

No matter how much discrimination and prejudice is mixed into this argument, the magicians have one point-

Just as a magician relies on magic to perform spells, psionics cannot do without psychic powers.

Mental power comes from brain activity, and the so-called "brain waves" are essentially a kind of bioelectricity. Most of the intelligent creatures have limited brain domain development, and they can't provide enough mental power to supply the psychic ability, and the few lucky ones who have mastered the psychic ability are difficult to get a peek at in this difficult knowledge.

The reason is very simple, whether it is a human or an elf, the brain is composed of the cerebral cortex, cerebral gray matter and cerebral medulla, in addition to blood and neurons, the most basic constituent substance is fat.

Although the brain of an intelligent creature is a masterpiece of evolutionary ingenuity in biology, it is the most fragile organ in the body, and it must be protected by a nearly hermetically sealed skull. Psionic magic, on the other hand, needs to activate every area of the brain as much as possible to obtain the most abundant mental power with the most active brainwave activity.

For most intelligent beings, such strenuous brain activity can deplete the stored energy in the body in an instant, and the next step is either cerebral hypoxia or hypoglycemia. Whether they are cold-blooded or warm-blooded, their physiology itself restricts their exploration of psionic magic.

Compared to other sapient races, psionic monsters are like a new race born to develop psionic magic.

Psiclists are soft-bodied creatures whose tadpole-like juveniles hatch and grow in the pools of the brains of the Psivacites. When they reach maturity, they are fished out by adult psivacs and placed in the ear canal of a human or elf. The tadpole will quickly penetrate the victim's eardrum and enter the brain through the ear canal, devouring the victim's brain and mental power.

After this brutal rite of passage, the Psick will gain control of the body by growing new neurons from the victim's remaining brain marrow. Then, they began to hunt more intelligent creatures, using the gray matter and mental power of their prey as the most delicious food, and using them to strengthen their psionic magic.

In the psionic magic system of the Psionic Monster, the cultivation methods used by the surface psionic beings, such as meditation, silent prayer, and internal examination, are completely ignored and replaced by a more direct and effective means of plundering-

Devour the spiritual power and soul of intelligent beings, strengthen your spiritual power, and then continue to devour more intelligent beings. Turn it over, turn it upside down, and just go and eat people.

As the "leading monster" of the City of Recluses, Surak's spiritual power is naturally as deep as the sea, even if it is plotted by someone in his heart, he can steadily accept this wave of spiritual impact. Even at the moment when he sensed that chill, Surak had already prepared four counterattack plans, and he was ready to fight back in an instant.

But in the entanglement of the mind, a more ethereal thought was like a water flooding stone, and in the blink of an eye, it was filled with the sea of consciousness of the spirit absorbing monsters:

"The land of the black fear of the Lord of the Dead, the seven-fold overturned iron city settles.

Disgusted with the dignity of the people of the world, the skeleton and the dead are solemnly seated.

The edict god changed into a canopy, and the Big Dipper Nine Stars became a phantom net.

The evil became the royal name Bar, and Zhang Li's teeth were blazing.

Thou shalt rejoice in slaughter, but thou shalt feed on the fats of thy blood.

The left hand is full of sorrow, and the right hand is sharp and severe.

Hindering the good and promoting the evil and all the thieves, like the mighty gods and the demons,

I came to this altar on my orders, and the next Yuan relieved the Taiyi monarch. ”

Like Sanskrit sounds, like Taoist singing, between ethereal thoughts, a black lotus mandala that holds countless Bal gods is instantly manifested in the flow of consciousness with a clear and clear, cold and cold "water flow".

Originally, this Baal Mandala buried in the depths of Valas's consciousness was just a virtual seed with spiritual power, and when it absorbed enough crazy killing intent from the consciousness of the arachnoid elves, it would be catalyzed to mature and become a spiritual energy altar that inherited Baal's divine power.

But at this moment, the Black Lotus Mandala directly extracted a large amount of spiritual power from Surak's sea of consciousness, and manifested from a seed of consciousness into a half-illusory and half-physical projection, which was so generously revealed.

The Bal chant, which had been imprinted on the Black Lotus mandala by the Psionic Monsters, had also been transformed into something similar to a summoning spell.

For the inhabitants of the main physical plane, there is essentially no difference between sacrificial prayers and summoning incantations, both of which are signals calling them to descend into the main physical realm. But most of them, whether demons or gods, are happy to descend on the altar in carols and enjoy the praise and sacrifices of the inhabitants of the main physical realm, rather than being forced to appear in magical summoning rituals full of traps and threats.

The premise is that the deity has not completely lost his divinity, and still retains his reason and emotions on the throne.

The opposite example is the god of ooze monsters, Guannard, a giant slime monster god who will come as promised if he senses prayers and sacrifices to it. However, whether it will bless the believers who sacrificed after its arrival, or simply eat the believers, can only try their luck, after all, no one should ask a low-level creature like a slime to be rational, unless it is taken away by the soul of a traverser with its own sage template.

Now it seems that the king of murder, Baal, is not much stronger than the god of ooze monsters, on each leaf of the black lotus mandala, those different forms of the Baal gods melted like wax, and the miserable green demon fire burned on the melting god, and in the blink of an eye, the entire black lotus mandala was burned into a green flame.

Even mortals who don't know anything about the occult can tell that the murder king Baal is coming.