## MAGIC SYSTEM — Body/Mind Duality (replaces all fire/ice metaphors)

The Starfall Accord's magic is NOT fire vs. ice. That framing is FORBIDDEN in all chapter writing.
The true duality is BODY (embodied practice) vs. MIND (disciplined will/intent):

- MIRA'S SCHOOL (Ignis Academy) — Magic as embodied practice. Power lives in what the body already
  knows: muscle memory, accumulated repetition, the intelligence stored in the hands and spine.
  You don't think the spell; you have already done it ten thousand times.
  Mira's power is improvisational, adaptive, immediate. She IS what she has done.
  Her signature: *"Your body knows. Stop asking your mind for permission."*

- DORIAN'S SCHOOL (Frost-Bound Institute) — Magic as mental architecture. Power lives in disciplined
  will and possibility-space: pre-visualization so precise that reality bends to meet the intended
  outcome. Students don't practice spells; they build perfect internal models then execute once.
  Dorian's power is exact, intentional, pre-planned. He IS what he intends.
  His signature: *"You cannot build what you cannot first see, completely, in your mind."*

The conflict: Mira teaches by doing; Dorian teaches by thinking. Their pedagogical philosophies are
in irreconcilable opposition — yet both are demonstrably right, which is the problem.

Deeper layer (Memory/Possibility): Mira occasionally picks up physical memories from things she
touches (she can't always tell if it's true memory or her imagination). Dorian's pre-visualization
sometimes collapses into fixed outcomes — he can't tell if he predicted the future or created it.
Both characters share the same underlying question: *Is what I know real, or did I construct it?*

The climax resolves the duality: both schools need the other to function fully — resolved in unified
magic and action, never in metaphor or explicit theme statement.