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* ''Franchise/DragonAge'' mages can inadvertently perform minor displays of magic effortlessly (Wynne discovered she was a mage when she accidentally set a bully's hair on fire when she was only nine years old). This is usually how young potential mages are discovered by the Templars. More powerful spells and rituals require outside sources of energy. Lyrium, the GreenRocks of the setting that are the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' setting's source of magic, is usually distilled into a consumable liquid form for this purpose. [[BloodMagic Blood Mages]] can use LifeEnergy (theirs or others' it doesn't matter) instead; this also lets them perform blood manipulating feats that non BloodMagic cannot, such as MindControl (controlling blood in the brain?) and ripping the blood out of their enemies' pores.
** Also, another case with Blood Magic is that for a mage to first be able to use it, they have to make a bargain with a Demon to gain the power. Now, what each bargains requires changes from person to person, but most cases end with [[GrandTheftMe the Demon possessing the Mage]] and turning them into [[AndIMustScream an Abomination]].

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** It is an in-universe theory that the wishes that get fulfilled in exchange for the girls becoming magical girls are guaranteed to cause an amount of despair equal to the hope they generate. A SelflessWish for the sake of others would eventually lead to the wisher suffering in turn, unable to enjoy the very wish she herself generated, especially when the Magical Girl persona is forcing the wisher into isolation. "Hope and despair balance out to zero." Although this is never treated as anything but a hypothesis, and more likely to be based on one of the themes of Goethe's ''{{Faust}}'': As part of the DealWithTheDevil, should the Faust ever reach the highest state of happiness possible for humanity, he will immediately die and be consigned to hell.
** A subversion [[spoiler:is the true goal of the Incubators: to subvert the laws of thermodynamics. Magic generated through emotion breaks Newtonian EquivalentExchange, and the Incubators are using the additional energy to offset the death of the universe. However, for the Magical Girls themselves, [[PoweredByAForsakenChild the Equivalent Exchange of hope and despair still remains to screw them over]].]]

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