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-Life magic is the seventh most common type among the [[chosen:|Chosen]], with slightly less than five percent of the population being solely or primarily of this type.+[[chosen:magic:life|Life]] magic is the seventh most common type among the [[chosen:|Chosen]], with slightly less than five percent of the population being solely or primarily of this type.
  
 Anything that lives carries with it a certain amount of life force, representing the vitality and health of its body. How much any particular organism has depends partly on its physical size, but very much on whether and how fast it is growing and what its state of health is. Each organism's life force has also a different character or flavor according to the nature of the organism to which it is attached. The power of Life magic revolves around the movement and manipulation of this life force. Anything that lives carries with it a certain amount of life force, representing the vitality and health of its body. How much any particular organism has depends partly on its physical size, but very much on whether and how fast it is growing and what its state of health is. Each organism's life force has also a different character or flavor according to the nature of the organism to which it is attached. The power of Life magic revolves around the movement and manipulation of this life force.
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 It is also possible, rather than adding to or taking away from an organism's life force, to change what is already there, causing analogous changes in the organism itself, permanently changing its physiology and genetic code. It is also possible, rather than adding to or taking away from an organism's life force, to change what is already there, causing analogous changes in the organism itself, permanently changing its physiology and genetic code.
  
-While relatively easy in terms of the effort expended, doing this successfully for even small changes requires delicacy, practice, and a good instinct for what is being done and what effects it will have; major alterations are usually the province of only the most brilliant lifegivers, though [[chosen:magic:substance-magic|alchemist]]-lifegivers have a strong advantage in being able to obtain a biochemical understanding of the process in addition to the feel of the life force of their subject. Getting the process wrong is likely to cause the subject's death, or - failing that - to cause the subject to wish for death.+While relatively easy in terms of the effort expended, doing this successfully for even small changes requires delicacy, practice, and a good instinct for what is being done and what effects it will have; major alterations are usually the province of only the most brilliant lifegivers, though [[chosen:magic:substance|alchemist]]-lifegivers have a strong advantage in being able to obtain a biochemical understanding of the process in addition to the feel of the life force of their subject. Getting the process wrong is likely to cause the subject's death, or - failing that - to cause the subject to wish for death.
  
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