Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-25818714-20141205164023/@comment-28978632-20170804002740

GunMetalGrey wrote: I would say so. Though magic isn't really a "power", it is a source of powers. The gift of magic is useless until you will it into a superpower. Magic is dependant on your willpower, creativity, and intelligence after all. It also comes in multiple forms: inherent magic (magic genetics), intelligence based magic, and faith based magic reliant on gods.

Edit: All superpowers come with a price. People who overuse mental powers start bleeding from the eyes and nose and risk brain damage, people who overuse physical powers tend to start tearing muscle and breaking bones, people who overuse elemental powers start to freeze or combust or crumble. Not to mention general fatigue as they burn up your energy. In a neutral sense, not taking into account the nature of Magic, that is, in a general sense, you are right, Magic is a source of powers, elemental spell, elemental control, mental spell, mind control and telepathy, temporal spell, chronokinesis... Not to mention the pure magical powers, which are earned or natural.

The rest is rest. Only details of fiction and infinite variables.

But I wanted to address a very important and somewhat annoying subject, the "Price of Magic." Not that I do not like that in the story is really a great dramatic effect, but it's more a part of the plot for a drama than a rule usually in the story. Type Once Upon a Time is the series I know that most uses that phrase, but in the end it's just that, a dramatic effect, more for the great spells than something actually used.

The Price of Magic is something that at one time became very popular, because Type Magic can do anything, so it needs something that can limit and Price was great not to place implicit restrictions, which could limit and contradict the plot. Possessing something that makes everything easier on the spot makes things boring. You have to work hard in science, the powers have limits .... Price has become popular, but it's not something absolute, like Harry Potter, Magic works by manipulating only at a slight fundamental level and sometimes it's just an energy expenditure that happens to any superpower.