How about "Forge Magic" as a tradition?
Magic ends up in magical objects by working on them, thinking about them, working and reworking them until they're 'right'.
Magic can be used via 'tinkered together' objects, but these are 'lash-up', 'duck taped', and will only work a few times or for a while, without the job being done properly. Lash-ups can be very useful to start research, though.
Research and understanding is critical, the better something is understood, the better it can be made to work. Trying to do something based on guesswork might work once, but it will go really badly wrong if you rely on it, even if it worked perfectly first time.
Some might refer to this as the "traditional dwarwen engineering" approach.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind
Magic ends up in magical objects by working on them, thinking about them, working and reworking them until they're 'right'.
Magic can be used via 'tinkered together' objects, but these are 'lash-up', 'duck taped', and will only work a few times or for a while, without the job being done properly. Lash-ups can be very useful to start research, though.
Research and understanding is critical, the better something is understood, the better it can be made to work. Trying to do something based on guesswork might work once, but it will go really badly wrong if you rely on it, even if it worked perfectly first time.
Some might refer to this as the "traditional dwarwen engineering" approach.
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"It is the business of the future to be dangerous" - Hawkwind