A Bit of a Ramble on the False Magic System in my World, Eldres

In Eldres, magic itself is casted through sound, most commonly musical notes. Say you wish to cast a "fireball" you'd play a certain tune through a flute or on a violin and cast said fireball. This did lead to weapons being made that specifically are built to function both as weapons and as instruments. Good examples come to mind like Whistling Blades, which function as woodwinds in a sense as well as swords and/or daggers.

This is the simple part of it. It is in fact more complicated than that. This is just the method used to cast magic as it's the only known method to do so consistently. And that's where the "false" part of "False Magic System" comes in.

Magic is actually based on visualization and imagination, music happens to just be the best way to associate a certain magical action/ result. This is because music and sound can vary quite a bit and it is far easier to associate an image with a sound, therefore giving the mage an idea of how to do certain spells.

I find the idea of the most common way of using magic is in fact only *one* method of casting magic. If you can obtain a clear enough image of something, you could likely do said something. It's just widely believed this is the only method because it's the only one they can understand.

There are plenty of things non-music related that are magical simply because they are just that way and not a scholar nor mage understands how or why the magic works that way because they have no concept of it.

This does keep the magic in this world mysterious while giving it some structure. Plus it means that I, as a writer, have something that *can* have rules but it's still freeform since its based on visualization and conceptualization.

You could play a melody and cast a lightning bolt, but if you could associate it strongly enough in your head with just snapping your fingers and pointing at something, you could definitely also do the same thing like that. It's just so widely believed that music is the only method for humans to cast magic that it's hard to comprehend a different method working.