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Magic in the Daughter of Smoke & Bone series has some unique properties.

Description[]

Magic is not free; its cost is pain. Magic usually requires a pain tithe in order to be used. However, Scarab reveals that though a pain tithe is the easiest way to do magic, it is also the most crude.

Examples of Magic[]

Hamsas[]

Hamsas are the marks of a revenant, and give them the ability to direct harmful magic at the seraphim because the pain tithe has already been paid with the chimaera's previous death.

(See full article: Hamsas)

Wishes[]

Wishes are created through the pain tithe, the amount of pain directly corresponding to the power of the wish.

(See full article: Wish)

Glamour[]

The glamour is produced by using pain as a lens through which one's will is directed to produce a kind of invisibility.

(See full article: Glamour)

Resurrection[]

Resurrection itself does not require a pain tithe, but making new bodies does. The resurrectionist uses his or her own pain to turn the necklaces of teeth into bodies, into which the revenant's soul is guided.

(See full article: Resurrection)

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