[Opinion] Can magic keep being active after a magician dies?

[Johny111]

I understood your question in the sense of whether, for example, someone's magical creation, a homunculus, or an artificially created being, a familiar or similar, could outlive the mage themselves. Regarding that, people usually overlook how ideas and thought forms can be lasting, persistent, penetrating, and effective. Also, we see that in the example of the ideas and books a person leaves behind. Those ideas can occupy the minds of other people hundreds of years later. Those who carefully collect and study occult literature know this best. But there are other angles on the matter. For example, if a powerful magical person has cast a curse on a family, it can be reproduced across generations. So, that person's magic certainly outlives their physical life. Another way in which one's magic outlives its creator is through objects of power, whether they are material or even astral objects. It is not excluded that astral "objects" may outlive their creator. In fact, this "object" is also a kind of being (familiar). However, it mostly involves mental forms of varying intensity, whether these forms are related to specific objects, locations, beings, or are perhaps somehow free and associated with other mental forms. That is already uncertain territory...

 

[Durward]

Opinion: Can magic keep being active after a magician dies?

Depending of course on the practitioner and the skill level, and what kind of magic you are referring to, my opinion is yes.
For those who have enough skill to attach a power source to something, that isn't their own personal power, the magic will continue as long as the power source remains, and the original magic components are intact. A Kris is a good example, where the dagger is forged from the start by a skilled practitioner that binds awareness into the process, and gives it a purpose. Haunted items are also great examples, whether possessed by some entity or a splinter of the original owner that has passed. Awareness is a power source.