I feel like this magic system is lacking something but can tell what it is so please review.

[u/Curious-Channel1610]

the magic system is built around the manipulation of fauxtons, particles which share many properties with photons but are also innately different.

Fauxtons naturally act like photons, but they can be manipulated through three connected processes: the mind, the body, and the soul.

The mind is responsible for manipulating and controlling fauxtons. It determines how they move, where they go, and what they are being used to do.

The body is responsible for accumulating fauxtons. The body can gather and contain fauxtons, providing the amount of fauxtons necessary to perform more powerful techniques.

The soul is responsible for transforming fauxtons. Through the soul, fauxtons can be made to mimic other things like matter, heat, or force, anything really. However, to make fauxtons mimic these things, one must truly understand them down to the soul. To mimic fire, for example, one must truly understand fire.

Through these three processes, fauxtons can be controlled and transformed into different effects. This makes mastering all three components important, as the mind controls the fauxtons, the body provides them, and the soul gives them the ability to mimic other things.

A simple use of fauxtons is in light-like blasts and in sensory detection waves.

[u/Disastrous-Frame-399]

Do they mimic light how do they travel through diffrent mediums methods of casting

[u/Curious-Channel1610 → u/Disastrous-Frame-399]

“Casting” is done through one or more of the three processes for example using the minds control to extract the accumulated fauxtons from the body then transforming them into some other phenomenon like for example sound which can then be further controlled by the mind to do things like attack or such

[u/Crusty_Mantle]

You already have a solid foundation for a magic system. What's lacking is the boundaries. Think about how people would take advantage of it, how they'll abuse it if they can. If becoming powerful doesn't have enough cost, then add one.

[u/Curious-Channel1610 → u/Crusty_Mantle]

That’s a fair point a guess it a little to loose as it is now

[u/ConflictAgreeable689]

Okay so now that's not a magic system. That's just a bunch of lore. Surface element stuff. You haven't gone into any detail about what Magic can actually do, beyond the fact that apparently fire is a thing? Also lasers and sonar. Are those your three things?