Įach aspect of this refracted magic has an associated colour and is drawn to different things in different ways. Rather, they are made up of the immaterial, chaotic, psychically-inflected energy that is magic, dispersed at different speeds and in different amounts across the Known World. These eight types of magical energy, perceived as different and consistent 'colours' by those with the witchsight, are known to the Colleges of Magic as the 'Winds of Magic.' Of course, these energies are not literal winds.

When the raw metaphysical Chaos energies of the Aethyr leaks through the Chaos Gates, it becomes perceptible as eight separate aspects to those with the appropriate senses. Most of those who study the phenomena agree that wherever and whenever the immaterial meets the material, some kind of hybrid of the two is created. There are many conflicting theories among the different Imperial Colleges of Magic as to why and how the random energies of the Aethyr fall into reasonably consistent laws in the mortal world.

Magic bends and unbinds the physical laws of creation and can remake reality such that things and processes that otherwise could not exist come into being. It can be said with a degree of certainty that magic will always change elements of the mortal plane that it comes into contact with, but it is difficult to anticipate what form this change will take. The influence of the Winds of Magic upon the mortal world is often bizarre, unforeseen, and random, just as the world affects them in bizarre, unforeseen, and random ways.

Download great horned rat 40k