Clarifying Note on “Magic” in This Series

The Cursed Ones series does not depict “magic” in the way it’s commonly portrayed in popular media—or misunderstood in religious critique.

In this story, magic is a contrast term: a reflection of cultural indoctrination, trauma processing, and neurodivergent perception.

It is not a fantasy trope—it’s a placeholder for difference.

 I do not use magic to describe the lived reality of the Wyndelen. That is Wyndec—the Breath on the Wynde.

What looks like magic to the outside world is, to them, instinct, resonance, inheritance, memory, and embodied truth.

 Glyfts, liments, and murmurs? They’re not spells. They’re systems—ways of communicating needs, desires, protections...and even prayers.

 This is not occultism. It’s not a religion. It’s not worship. It’s not about belief.

 It’s about being—about naming, remembering, surviving, overcoming.

 This series is not anti-religion or anti-faith.

But it does challenge systems of control—spiritual, institutional, and internal—that have historically harmed those deemed “too much” or “not enough.”

If that feels threatening, it’s worth asking who taught you to be afraid—and what that fear protects.

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