Dragaeran sorcery is powered indirectly by a vast natural deposit of Amorphia, but is regulated by the Imperial Orb to which all Dragaeran citizens have a psychic link.It's a capital crime in the Dragaeran Empire because (a) Amorphia tends to dissolve everything around it into more Amorphia and (b) any Magic Misfire with Elder Sorcery can create a lot of Amorphia, as exemplified by the deluge that annihilated the old capital city when one guy botched a spell. Elder Sorcery is powered by and involves the manipulation of Amorphia, the physical substance of raw chaos.The 'wild magic' which is the Applied Phlebotinum of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant books.Monsters II: The Wizard of Chaos involves Cai and Arthur finding a wizard gifted with chaos magic, causing seemingly random effects. What the Cat Dragged In: From seeing Ladybug and Chat Noir in action, Natasha and Clint were able to accurately deduce that not only are their powers magical in origin, but they operate on a system of magic based around probability.In The Last Draconequus, the protagonist is Discord, a god of Chaos.Since she's Wanda's daughter, this gift is hardly surprising - but still ironic. In the sequel, she's demonstrated to be having trouble with it - she thrives on learning and mastering the strict rules of normal magic, while Chaos Magic by definition has no rules. Hermione, ironically, seems to have a predilection for this.Cue Doctor Strange sweeping in, flipping the White Council the bird and taking her as his apprentice. Wanda Maximoff who, unlike her canon counterpart, is very skilled at managing her chaos magic - though when it first manifested along with her mutation, it nearly drove her completely insane despite the best of efforts of her father, Albus Dumbledore, Howard Stark and Charles Xavier, to the point where the White Council wanted to execute her simply because she was too dangerous.Child of the Storm has this as arguably the most dangerous form of magic - as Wanda explains, the only limits are the caster's power, imagination, concentration, and willingness to risk tearing the fabric of reality.This is actually a basic fact about entropy, as higher entropy states tend to be more 'soupy.' Hence why chaos-based entities tend to have an Omnicidal Maniac vibe to them. note Ironically, despite people usually conflating this idea with chaos, the heat death of the universe will result in the most ordered state the universe has ever seen: a sea of matter stretching evenly and uniformly across the entire universe in all directions until the end of time, assuming quantum mechanics does not produce a new Big Bang - forever is a long time, after all, and the physics of such extremely low conditions of temperature and density, where quantum effects would prevail, are thought to be poorly understood. Since the universe itself (as far as we know) is an isolated system with no external forces that can affect it, this suggests that eventually it will succumb to 'heat death of the universe': eventually all organized systems will break apart. note Think about how a messy room will only get messier over time, and it takes someone deliberately cleaning up to restore it to a more ordered state. Per the second law of thermodynamics, the entropy of an isolated system can only grow, never decrease the only way to decrease the entropy is for some external force to do work on it. note Strictly speaking, entropy is a constant multiplied by log of the number of microstates (distribution of particles by states) corresponding to same observed macrostate (set of observed macroparameters) of the system. In real life, 'entropy' is a physical concept, roughly defined as a measure of disorder and chaos of a given system. 'Entropy' in particular is one of these scientific concepts which appeals to writers due to its cool, sinister-sounding name and its association with decay. It can function in many different ways, but frequent traits include: high randomness and uncontrollability, probability manipulation, and inducing accelerated decay and destruction, depending on how the writers understand the concept of chaos and entropy.

Sometimes appears in settings with an Order Versus Chaos cosmology, but can pop up anywhere.

Often referred to as 'chaos magic', 'wild magic' (not to be confused with the Wild Magic trope) or, more fancifully, 'entropic magic' or variants on that name.

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