Handicrafts

Craftmagic is a magic profession, and consists of several different crafts. The strength of ones craftmagic is determined either by skill, or innate power - though the two often intertwine. The usage of craftmagic is often limited to touch, but more powerful, and skilled mages have been known to ignore such limitation. Craftmagic is the opposite of Griefermagic, where one creates, the other destroys.

Using Craftmagic:
Craftmagic is often used for, but not limited to, crafting. The difference between normal crafting, and craftmagic, however, is that craftmagic constructions and items are often fantastic in appearance and usage, and holds properties that normal items can not. Craftmagic can be used for normal construction as well, and would in such case be carried out at a greatly increased pace, or with much better quality. Craftmages are for this reason, in great demand.

Some Craftmagic constructs can be animate, and in some cases, be considered minions. The difference between a handicrafted minion, and a normal minion, is that a handicrafted minion, unless tweaked or loopholed, are not, and will never be, thinking entities with minds of their own.

Some mages prefer to use their skills in a more directly offensive manner, and while it is generally highly situational, and sometimes less effective than a non-magical method of attack, it can be painfully effective under the right circumstances. A loose example of this is the usage of Threadcraft to puppeteer other entities and/or objects, Sandcraft to create quicksand traps, Soapcraft to trap hostile/friendly entities in floaty bubbles, or coat entire battlefields into slippery chaos, and so on.

Craftmages are limited by the materials/resources available to them. Without any materials/resources that fit their type of craft, they are unable to cast.

Themes
There are countless different types of craftmagic. Some are bound to materials, others to abstract concepts or ideas.

Types:
- Threadcraft

- Sandcraft

- Waxcraft

- Jellycraft

- Woodcraft

- Stonecraft

- Papercraft

- Fleshcraft

- Glasscraft

- Soapcraft

- Coincraft

- Waxcraft

- Porcelaincraft

- Metalcraft

- Cardboardcraft

- Starcraft

- Cloudcraft

- Inkcraft

- Metacraft

- Rulecraft

- Lovecraft