Thread:Nimarfira/@comment-39487125-20190804182846/@comment-39487125-20190806235006

In hard magic if you where using, Say, Infernal Magic, you could have reserves as deep as the sea, but you could only use as much magic as you can hold in a breath per spell.

Speaking in those terms, if you could hold your breath for thirty seconds then you could only be able to cast something as small as a fire ball. However, if you could hold your breath for fifteen to twenty minutes you could cast something as large as an arc dragon, perhaps bigger...

If we take something like Ancient Magic, you don't have the need for reserves because the source is external. But it is driven by will power and experience with that type of magic... But it's so dangerous that it could kill you in three ways. Lack of experience, weak will power, or both.

However if you are a master of that kind of magic and you have a strong enough will power, you would at least survive if something went wrong. Fortunately Ancients like Nimarfira or Sol could teach you how to use it. Unfortunately it is unlikely they will and there are very few Ancient descendents alive willing to teach it, let alone capable... And by very few descendants I mean, about six.