Magic Manifestations

The magic of the grifix comes from the chest gems, those acting like a constant “magic factory”. But unlike the unicorns and other creatures’ magic, they constantly produce magic, even when it isn’t used. That causes magic to leak in the air and cause some side effects, like the hair sparkle and the sphirix, and when more grifix gather together the magic can get even stronger side effects, such as lighting up the special lights the Everfree Village is decorated with or creating a magic dome that keeps predators and other creatures away.

The magic power of a grifix usually increases with the darkness of their coat, so usually dark grifix are stronger than white ones.

If the magic of a grifix is overused and the magic flow stops, all the magic manifestations will fade and stop, including the sphirix (which often leads to very strong panic attacks due to them being used to always have it by their side. These panic attacks can even lead to madness or death if not stopped soon enough).

Magic manifestations:

1. They cannot be seen by adult intelligent creatures (which are ponies, griffons, hippogriffs, dragons, yaks, changelings, kirins, cows, minotaurs, or anything else like that), but can be seen by children and animals, and also, by deers (which have a very strong friendship relationship with the grifix in the Everfree Forest, being both the only intelligent creatures living there).

2. Sparkly hair

3. Magic flow around the forehead/butt gem.

4. Where there are many grifix gathered together their magic creates a magic dome around that area which keeps outside any baneful magic and intruders. That’s why the Everfree Village is not affected by the Everfree’s crazy magic, and they can live there peacefully. The field also makes the houses of the grifix and all that is inside invisible to outsiders, and if any other creature enters the field it is sent back on it’s way, creating the impression of walking in circles.

5. Light Beans - For a short period in spring, the magic of the grifix increases so much as it condenses around their fluffs and forms solid shapes, which is what the light beans are. It takes around two weeks for them to grow, condense, and fall off. They all fall off during the same day, which is known as the Heartfire Holiday (the Spring Equinox). There are also grifix that have those permanently. For them, they still fall off that day, but pretty quickly grow back and stay on during the whole year, and two weeks before the Heartfire Day they may grow bigger. The Light Beans glow because they absorb magic from the air and turn it into light. After they fall off, they actually work exactly like before, still glowing. After a year the glow kind of fades away, but for that year they can be, in fact, used as lights by the grifix. The whole Everfree Village is decorated with them, they are used as nightlights even if they stay on all day (cause they can't be turned off). The Light Beans can be yellow, blue or green, but they all turn yellow short after they fall off.

6. Night Glow - it’s an ability that only some grifix have. It’s actually more sort of a fluorescence, but it’s still a magic manifestation. If the grifix has The Night Glow, their fluffs and other parts of their body glow. Sometimes it can even make patterns on their body, which is similar to their sphirix markings pattern. It only manifests at night. 

7. Magic Glow - it is produced when a grifix experiences a magic boost. It’s produced by an extreme magic energy that doesn’t last long. During the magic glow, their gems, freckles, the white of their eye and their hooves start glowing. Their paw pads glow too, sometimes with a unique pattern on them. Their footprints also glow for a few seconds, fading after that. So, when a grifix with Magic Glow walks, they leave a light prints trail behind them. Sometimes, their sphirix disappears, but it’s not like when the magic is overused. The sphirix actually fuses with the grifix, and some of the traits of the sphirix might appear visible on the grifix, like the tail, wings or claws made out of magic. This allows the grifix to use it’s magic at full power, showing the actual strength of their magic.

8. Common Dreams - When two grifix that have a strong bond sleep together or close to each other, they can have common dreams. This manifests like a single dream, in which they are both together. However, this also depends on their state of mind, so if they need some alone time they don’t have this kind of dream.

9. Gender Flow - the biological gender of the grifix can be changed by their magic if the grifix strongly believes and wants it. More details here.

10. Apparitions and Yokai - only occur in really big communities ssuch as the Frozen Empire (see here)

11. The most important manifestation, The Sphirix.