regshoe

I haven't thought about it too much (OK, who am I kidding, I have, but I only have some vague-ish ideas) but I mostly thought that magic never really left Scotland, and maybe that's the root of the conflict? And Northern england remains loyal to the magic cause, although the rest of England doesn't? And maybe people who are magicians are persecuted and have to flee to France. Or maybe everyone can do magic, but some people repress it out of fear?

On a less political note, Ewen is an earth magician, if I ever saw one <3 No one could have such a deep connection to the land and not be able to work a bit of magic! Maybe there are different types of magic: so, earth, but also wind and water and fire...

I think the magic of JSMN would fit right into the universe of Flight of the Heron, with its suggestions of the supernatural and its birds

Yes! Maybe in this crossover universe, the second Sight is more frequent, and so are heron prophecies (or bird ones, generally speaking) and (I've just decided) ornithomancy. And lots of folk magic stuff, like predicting the weather from the way the clouds look, etc. etc. Maybe these are also separate types of magic? And people can do one or two or several?

Also: maybe the Scottish magic preserved some of the old pagan religions+beliefs, and that's another reason why it's persecuted? From what I know about it, Scottish mythology is very nature-based (including a goddess portrayed as a mountain giantess, which I've always liked because it reminds me of the goddess Mari, from the mythology of the Basque people-some of *my* people, by the way! <3) so I think it ties in nicely.

WELL I guess that someone has to write it now!