I strongly recommend reading The Furies of Calderon by Jim Butcher, asap.
It's a high magic world, where literally everyone has elemental control magic through personal, bonded elemental spirits called "furies".
Furycraft is perfectly normal, taught in schools, certain levels of aptitude are required for the military and such.
To the people of the world, it is perfectly mundane and humdrum - as it should be.
The trick he uses is to show aplications of furycraft that ARE obviously magical and fantastic - to the reader.
An early example is when a man is injured in the woods outside his farm. He orders his earth fury to carry him home, and then passes out from blood loss.
So pretty much this earth elemental scoops him up and runs him home, plowing through the woods willy nilly, and delivering him home.
This is obviously a huge and fantastic use of magic, and is impressive to readers. But not to the denizens.
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It's a high magic world, where literally everyone has elemental control magic through personal, bonded elemental spirits called "furies".
Furycraft is perfectly normal, taught in schools, certain levels of aptitude are required for the military and such.
To the people of the world, it is perfectly mundane and humdrum - as it should be.
The trick he uses is to show aplications of furycraft that ARE obviously magical and fantastic - to the reader.
An early example is when a man is injured in the woods outside his farm. He orders his earth fury to carry him home, and then passes out from blood loss.
So pretty much this earth elemental scoops him up and runs him home, plowing through the woods willy nilly, and delivering him home.
This is obviously a huge and fantastic use of magic, and is impressive to readers. But not to the denizens.