Gender based magic

>feminine magic
>low fantasy
Witches(female) better represent the subtle workings of magic in a hidden urban fantasy setting.

>high fantasy
>masculine
Wizards(male) better represent the more impressive vulgar display of artsy/scientific arcane magics

There are always exceptions though

Depends on the setting
I'd give different sexes different kinds of magic, or no, even just very strong predispositions. Emotion-based illusion and destruction spells plus astral and divination from women, for ex

Its pretty in the middle. For every sorceress, you have a sorcerer, for every wizard you have a witch. You find the more Gaelic a faction is, the more they will be inclined to have females in magical roles. Whereas in more medieval environs, its mostly old wizened men and witches.

that's just internalized stereotyping, though. look how it gets turned on its head in east asia, even when writing longswords-orcs-and-elves shit, becausn over there the fantasy novel market is snowflake boys and dweeb girls rather than vice-versa.

That seems like a pretty big generalization.

Stereotypes aren't without truth.
He's not wrong regarding the majority of fictional works here.

The quintessential magician in High Fantasy is the old man in the tower, raining hell upon his enemies. Unlocking the eldritch secrets of the universe
The quintessential magician in Low Fantasy is the old gypsy lady living quietly at the end of the street. Selling their services for unsavory prices.

Stereotypes are meant to be broken, however.
A signature quality of good storytelling.

but they're quintessential purely because they're self-insert fodder. we shouldn't encourage them or consider them actually essential any more than we should drizzt or bella expies.

Again, stereotypes are meant to be broken.

Just look at D&D, it's always the same.
It's been done to death, and is arguably the worst offender when it comes to the "old man in the tower" trope.

Like in everything else, male magics would be about destruction/construction/explicit, while female magics would be about healing/nurturing/subtle.
So females are healers, druids, charmers, etc. Males everything else.

Of course you can make a more modern setting with the 504 genders of magic and opressive white mages.

Not that magical old people are an issue here.

They have always been pervasive in fiction of any kind.

>Not that magical old people are an issue here.

They're an issue if you're a youth obsessed weeaboo.

Magic is a force of nature, it's not male or female, fuck off with this reddit gender roles shit

Calm down

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING, FEMALE. AT LEAST UP THROUGH THE CLASSICAL ERA

DURING THE MIDDLE AGES AND ONWARD IT GOT MORE UNISEX

THIS IS WHY LOKI MOCKED ODIN FOR KNOWING MAGIC, IT WAS A WOMANS ART. ALSO BECAUSE SAEDR USUALLY INVOLVED DRINKING SEMEN.

Before 1500~ men were accused just as much as women when it came to witchcraft.

Nordic folklore is also a very small facet of a much greater world.

Males because while the average iq of females and males are equal, the standart deviation of a male is higher, this mean they have more ultra smart man (and more ultra dumb man).

Because of the fact the average person is not a magic, what the average human iq is, doenst matter, just the highest output, and here males win

T. BUTTHURT SAXON KEKOLD JEALOUS OF THE NORDS STEALING THEIR WOMEN

>implying

>weeb
not that user, but where the fuck did you get that from?

magic is predominantly draconian

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