#i like world building and magic systems

[ottpopfic]

Something i noticed about Big Three power’s

Demigods who are not big three have their gifts coming from inside themselves, directly from there body or genetic makeup. Leo’s fire is made from him its part of him, Pipers charm speak is something innate she can do, Will needs physical contact for his vitalkinisis because it comes from his body.

Big Three kids on the other hand are manipulating the world around them, they are in-tune with an outer element that they are controlling. Percy is directly manipulating water that is already there not making his own, Hazel is pulling gems from that earth beneath her, Jason controls air around him to fly its not something his body can just do

The only exception of this is can think of is Nico and Shadow Travel, and it is the only Big Three gift that is shown to negatively affect them physically past just getting tired.

[lushthemagicdragon]

I am absolutely obsessed with how Sammie is shot in this scene in comparison to his father. It's directly tied into a tl;dr I have about both how Christianity is treated in this film and how the magic system works in this story and so, while at some point I might write a whole ass blog post (or even an academic paper) in the future, here's the cliffnote word vomit version of why I think this is so fucking cool:

So basically, this film frames Christianity as one of the villains of the story (along with the white-liberalism-culture-vampires and the Klan), and heavily implies that what Sammie's dad wants from him is the same as what Remmick wants from him: to be used for the power of his music and subsumed into a soulless, cultureless whole. Where Sammie is lit in warm tones and dressed in warm colors, backdropped by green nature, his dad is lit in very stark cool tones with minimal contrast so he's almost in monochrome, surrounded only by the empty whiteness of the chapel. This film very clearly delivers a thesis that Christianity is a real-world culture-vampire that white people inflicted on the Black community, from the way Sammie's dad is shot and lit to look like the vampires do in this film, from Delta Slim's clear delineation that the blues isn't like that "religion they forced on us", to the way that Sammie's return to the chapel at the start and finish is intercut with scenes of Remmick. These flashes of Remmick and the horrors of that night that are cut into Sammie's dad telling him to repent and drop the guitar are the catalyst for Sammie leaving, because he figures it out. And in part he figured it out BECAUSE of the second thing that is fascinating, and that is basically the consistency of the magic system.

Basically, the magic system in this movie is antithetical to Christianity as a whole.

I'm going to preface this by saying that when I talk about Annie's hoodoo I'm NOT talking about real world hoodoo, which I know nothing about. I'm just talking about how the film presents hoodoo, and how the film presents the fae, and how these things all function within the same cohesive magic system.

Annie's Hoodoo, Sammie's music, and the Vampires are all diametrically opposed to Christianity, and are all within the realm of Faërie magic.

So when I say Faerie I don't mean specifically the sidhe, though the sidhe are part of Faerie. By Faerie magic I mean specifically the magic of the natural world, which is often ancestral, and often associated with an Otherworld that is still part of the World itself but is greater than humans. This is as opposed to sorcery (man-made magic) or heavenly/satanic (abrahamic/usually christian magic). When I say the entire magic system is Faërie it is because the Vampires are very CLEARLY laid out as Faërie, while Sammie's magic and Annie's Hoodoo are all part of the same consistent system of magic, laid out right at the start.

So basically right from the very first scene the film puts West African magic, Choctaw magic and ancient Irish magic as existing within the same frame of reality. All three have a concept of the magical singer, and all three (we later find out) know about vampires. It establishes that these all function in the same magic system, which is the Reality of this Secondary World. What is real for one group in this magic system is real for all of them. They may use different language to talk about the same thing, but the concepts are the same across the board in this universe. We're just talking about fictional secondary world magic system building here, and consistent storytelling, not real world understandings of these things.

the vampires are the most clearly Fae creatures (and by this I don't mean Fairies, but creatures associated with Faërie--imo they're like Changelings in that they were once human and then become Fae). Remmick is ancient Irish, out here singing Irish folk songs and handing gold coins to people at a crossroads, saying that the gold comes from an ancient place but it's no use to Mary while she's "alive" (human and not of the fae). It's super on-the-nose almost to the point of being irish stereotype caricature. I'll come back to him.

Annie's Hoodoo is never outright put in opposition to Christianity, but it's significant that she is not a mixed practitioner. There are no clear icons or crosses in her home. The grave marker for their dead child is not a cross but a carved African figure, which is very significant in 1930s Mississippi. She is solely a hoodoo practitioner, who lives in a ramshackle cottage in the words selling magical/natural cures. She's very witch-in-the-wood coded, but is never ever presented as wicked or evil. She's also the only spiritual figure in the film that can be trusted, and she is trusted implicitly. She is also the one who understands the consistency of the magic systems, as the teller of the intro tale and as the one who knows how to fight the vampires. This includes throwing NOT holy water on them, but garlic pickling juice. Crosses are also never used in her instructions on how to push them away (a very common vampire trope), just garlic, silver, fire, and stakes. I would also argue that Smoke's death scene with her and the baby is NOT heavenly, it's just afterlife coded (because white is generally the afterlife color code for visual media). Again, no angels, no heavenly coding, just afterlife coding. You COULD argue that she's virgin mary coded in this scene because she's breastfeeding, but we did see her actively have sex on screen earlier so that's tenuous at best. It's also shot with that same warped camera affect that happens whenever the mojo bag is in-use.

Then there is the Music. Music in general is a very common magical device in Faërie magic, and Tolkien is like the king of this: music holds power than the spoken word does not, music is the truest art of creating enchantment, this secondary world that the fae can produce, a fully realized enchanted art form. tl;dr there's a lot here but that's the cliffnotes version. Delta Slim outright says that the music is brought with them from home, rather than being forced upon them like Christianity. Sammie's music is what Sammie's dad wants to stamp out of him, or at least use to his limited means. It's Sammie's connection to the music that makes him a sinner in his father's eyes. But this is really hammered home in the final scene between Remmick and Sammie and then Sammie and his dad.

So I don't actually think Remmick's final monologue is supposed to be a final villain monologue so much as a final exposition monologue. I think the final villain monologue is Sammie's dad trying to compel him with the power of Christ, based on story structure. Generally speaking, a final villain monologue is supposed to be the peak of their evil plan, which is then foiled and shown to be wrong by the actions of the heroes. That's not exactly what Remmick's final speech does. In the final speech, Remmick explains that Christianity is the reason his culture is dead (and so the reason for the culture vampire void that needs to be filled), but he also says the following:

"They told stories of a heaven above and a devil below, and lies about the dominion of man over heaven and earth. We are earth and beast and God. We are woman and man. We are connected, you and I, to everything."

*if* this was a classic villain finale monologue, the response to this would have been "oh look this weird anti-christian pagan creature is monologuing, so he's evil, and the church is good and correct and the Truth", but that isn't how the film ends. Instead, the Remmick looks into the sunrise and hears the call of the Otherworld and his people (rather than say, heaven, because it's given that same Faerie irish lilt) but instead the music turns and he goes up in horrible flames for his crimes. UP in flames, up into the sky, which is NOT Christian for a "demon" to do in death (because he's not a demon, he's fae, Sammie calls him the devil repeatedly because he hasn't figured this out yet). The film "ends" (prior to the epilogue) with Sammie remembering the torment he went through from these vampires, after hearing this monologue, while at the church with his father trying to compel him to join *his* coven/clan/flock, and Sammie realizing that what his father is doing to him is this same repeated cycle of violence that happened to Remmick and that Remmick was trying to repeat onto him, and LEAVES.

Because of this, I think those lines above are not the typical final villain monologue, but the final bit of exposition that tells the audience the truth: that Sammie's magic and Remmick's magic (and Annie's magic as the one spiritual figure of the bunch) are all connected, you and I, to everything, with no dominion of man over heaven and earth. It establishes the magic system as consistent, and diametrically opposed to Christianlity

Faerie is morally neutral, it is the magic-of-the-World rather than of a moral dichotomy. It can be revelatory and healing, and it can be seductive and destructive. Annie and Sammie's magic is Good, and the Vampires are Evil, but they are all together diametrically opposed to the Church.

This is why the framing of Sammie and his dad in that opening scene is so fascinating, because behind Sammie is the natural world, warm and vibrant and welcoming, and behind his dad is man-made emptiness and shadow. Title of the film says it all, this film is ABOUT the so-called Sinners, the un-Christians. And that's not presented as a bad thing to be at all, but a truly magical thing, and that being a Sinner is joyous activity.

[meowdy-all]

Fic idea! When jayce and viktor disolve into the cosmos they like...become the arcane. Two halves of a whole, yin and yang. And when they merge, they become the universe/arcane herself.

Cause Mage viktor is...a mage yk? And Viktor basically ascended to godhood. What's one more step? Boom, they ARE the fabric of the universe and magic.

So they dissolve into the universe and become AwareTM of every timeline, possibilities, the forming of stars and planets, and culture in an instant. They see the rise and fall of gods, countries and cities, everything in the span of an instant. They are here together, not better than they ever were, still the same, just with more power and awareness and love than they ever had.

And then they get dropped right into them being arrested after they make hextech. So now you have Jayce and Viktor who have the will of the arcane at their fingertips and the entire universe in their brains that have just been dropped into a grad student and an assistant and are actively being arrested. Cue minor meltdowns in their cell bec omfg we wove the fabric of the universe, WE made the magic this whole time? So they use the skills they have to help Zaun while also playing the council. Water filters air filters, they're going to actually help this time instead of letting their dream be corrupted, and it will actually work bec they have the very fabric of magic and the universe in their hands. When they figure out how to use it.

Jayce has to relearn all of his notes on magic bec Cosmic Jayce was crazy and some areas of magic have such insane rules that cant even be applied in his mortal body what was he thinking? And Viktors notes are no more help to himself or jayce either.

So they have to relearn their magic with mortal limitations, which is kinda difficult when you're used to making stars and black holes with a thought and a wave of your hand. There's a lot of nosebleeds and migranes.

While they relearn their magic (and their bodies *wink wonk*), they also take to tutoring Powder and Ekko after they adopt them (sue me, i love that trope)

Idk how that fits in here, but im a sucker for Jayce being ekkos older brother figure, and i think powder and jayce should be friends. and i think viktor would love ekko even though he chucked an anomaly at his face. Jinx and viktor are self-explanatory.

Its a fix it so everyone lives. The explosion still happened but vanders actually fine so are mylo and claggor (yk jayce and viktor control the magic, even across the distancehe could remive the magic from the stone, they know the explosion has to happen but it doesnt need to kill anyone else), vi didnt get arrested. But vi still hit powder and called her a jinx. Powder runs away, jayce and viktor are already on their way to zaun bec they Know. They run into powder (for some reason she trusts them) and they go get ekko and help him too.

A few months later, powder is in therapy (so is ekko tbh) , she still introuces herself to people as Jinx, but Jayce, Viktor, and Ekko call her powder. Jayce helps when Powder has her moments considering yeah hes been through the same thing, he cant really hwlp, but he can comfort (the whole reason i want then in the same place anyway i love them both)

Zaundads sees Jayce and Viktor standing to the side, vut a flash of blue hair catches their full attention. Right there, getting everones attention, is a girl with a single calf length blue braid. And before their brains can catch up, Powder starts her presentation!

Vander and Vi have been looking for powder since. Eventually, once the water filters and air filters get made, Silco and Vander make up; and silco joins them in searching. Jayce and viktor have made their own connections in zaun, and while some people are suspicious of help from a piltie at the start (esp silco and vander) the years of effort theyve put in to help has given them a reputation. Eventually, powder and ekko start a project to bring more light to zaun. They start by making prototypes for street lights.

Eventually they decide to do their big project reveal; and this time, Zaundads and Vi decide to go. No one knows what they're revealing, but they've never had a presentation this early. Hell, the last presentation was for their streetlights. What else could the possibly have?

When it's finished, powder leaps off her improvised stage and striaght into jayces arms where he spins her around. Then, he pulls her and ekko into hugs. They can faintly hear Jayces 'im so proud of you' over the loud murmurs of the crowd. They see viktor come over and eatch them all hug again.

When it's over, Zaundads and Vi are watching in shock. They've spent years looking for her, and she was this close? How many times had vi run past her, or just missed her?

This was really supposed to be a 'we need more jayce being a magical girl, how about i make him one half of the most powerful entity to ever exist'

[mlb-a-rewrite]

Miraculous Make No Sense

so I changed how they work.

I love me a well-thought-out and deliberate magic system. I love seeing the different rules and properties of how magic works and I love seeing how the author expands and works around those rules. Limitations are placed, followed, and then explored.

Miraculous Ladybug doesn't do this.

The powers are unbalanced and unrestrained. Miraculous can do whatever the writers want them to whenever they need it to happen. There are no limitations to the powers and the powers don't balance one another out.

This was the first issue I tackled in my rewrite.

Miraculous Overview

I decided that there are two "categories" for miraculous. They are either first or second-ring miraculous. (This is taking inspiration from the miracle box featured in the show and how the miraculous are organized into different rings).

What ring a miraculous belongs to determines how "powerful" it is. All miraculous, regardless of what ring or miracle box they belong to, have the following features:

It is a piece of jewelry

It is connected to and contain imagery of an animal

When a miraculous is worn by a person, the person will be granted, regardless of what ring or miracle box the miraculous belongs to, the following items:

They will now be able to see all Kwamis (regardless of miracle box or ring affiliation)

A unique phrase that will allow them to transform between civilian attire and hero attire

If a person is transformed, they will:

Get a magic girl costume and a magical girl transformation! The costume combines elements of the wearer's personal tastes and the animal associated with the miraculous

Have general enhancements (i.e. they are faster, stronger, have quicker reflexes, etc. but mental capabilities remain unchanged; if they’re dumb as fuck they stay dumb as fuck)

Have a magic weapon/object unique to the miraculous that serves at the housing unit of their special ability

One power unique to their miraculous

All miraculous have the attributes featured above, however, a first-ring miraculous grants the wearer 2 additional special abilities that a second-ring miraculous doesn't.

Special Abilities

In the rewrite, the special ability unique to the miraculous is how I am classifying the powers of each character. Cataclysm, Lucky Charm, Mirage, Venom, etc. are all the special abilities of each miraculous.

Second-ring miraculous have temporary special abilities. If the fox miraculous wearer casts Mirage and then detransforms, Mirage deactivates the illusion dissipates. However, first-ring special abilities are permanent (with one exception, more on that later). So when a ladybug wearer uses Restoration ("Restoration" being the new name for the "Miraculous Ladybug" power seen in the show) and then detransforms, all the damage they just repaired stays repaired.

Powers are also draining to the wearer. The bigger or more precise the use of the power is, the more physically draining it is. It takes a lot of strength, both physically and mentally, as well as a deep connection with the miraculous/kwami to use it for a wider range of uses. It is pretty easy for a black cat wearer to activate cataclysm and let it do whatever it wants, but it is more difficult to control that damage to a certain area or to destroy tougher materials. This adds more restrictions to the powers and gives the characters something to work on.

First-Ring vs. Second-Ring

For second-ring miraculous, there is only one special ability, hence why the fox miraculous only has mirage, but first-ring miraculous have multiple (why the ladybug miraculous has lucky charm and miraculous ladybug and de-evilize/deakumatization and-). This is because first-ring miraculous are more powerful.

I think of each miraculous wearer as having spell slots. For second-ring wearers, they only have 1 spell slot and 1 spell in that slot they can use. For first-ring wearers, they have 3 spell slots with 2 spells that are permanently stuck there.

To use an example from the show:

Any wearer of the ladybug miraculous, regardless of any differentiating factors, will always be able to use "Lucky Charm" and "Restoration". However, that third spell slot can be switched out to fit the situation. This third slot is there to be able to counteract and balance out other miraculous. So if a wearer of the ladybug miraculous thinks the wearer of the butterfly miraculous is using akumatization for nefarious reasons, that third "slot" would acquire a "spell" that directly combats akumatization, which is where the de-evilize ability in the show comes in.

This third ability only exists to combat other miraculous. If, for instance, a ladybug wearer is fighting in a war, the third ability won't make them bullet proof or something because guns are not a product or feature of a miraculous. The third ability only develops to counteract other miraculous.

In addition to that, this third ability only develops as a result of intense emotion. If a ladybug wearer just dislikes another wearer, the third ability isn't going to manifest, but if the ladybug wearer truly believes with every fiber of their being that another miraculous is being used for evil, then the ability will form.

So in the show, Marinette doesn't gain the ability to de-evilize right away. Only when she gets deeply and emotionally invested in the battle does that third ability form.

The final bit about the third power is that you can only use one third power at at a time. Going back to the spell slot analogy, you can have multiple spells you know how to use, but because there is only one slot available, you can only "equip" one spell at a time. When a spell is replaced with another, its effects disappear. Since two of the spell slots are permanently taken up, there is only one "customizable" spell slot.

Final Notes

Miraculous are all about balance. All miracle boxes have 2 rings, and the first ring only ever have 2 miraculous. These miraculous are always opposites and balance each other.

Which is why it makes no sense that Ladybug has so many fancy ass powers and Chat Noir only has cataclysm. Like what??????? So I ended up severely limiting Ladybug's powers and adding more restrictions and clarification. I also wrote in a new power for Chat Noir but this is already long enough so I'll save those details for a different post. :)

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Asunder

slow-paced high fantasy

a woman who has a contract with an eldritch entity allowing her to see the dead & survives by taking various jobs

when a job searching for stranded smugglers in a cave goes wrong, she ends up with the soul of a dying stranger bound to her shadow

along with a scholar and her old childhood friend, they travel to his home country to find a way to unbind him and save them both

dark fantasy world with gods, demonic entities, arcane magic, and semi-sentient beasts used as transport

[gardening--tools]

I have no name for this fantasy knight order, which is very inconvenient because I am going to talk about it.

The physiology of the elders, like all knights of this elusive fraternal order, is dependent on how many remnants of the Old Spirits each has consumed. As we know from the records recovered from the Nowhild border, the rate of mutation exponentially increases with consumption. Once I had believed these elders to be the most prolific of their order; that their high rank correlated with the excellence of their service and dedication to their mission. But I now know this to be ignorant and based upon nothing but meritocratic idealism.

According to these same records, as the frequency of mutations rises so does the degradation of the body's arcano-lymphatic, endocrine and cardiovascular processes. Meaning each stage of mutation shortens a knight's life span at an increasing rate. I must conclude, then, that a knight who lives a long life is a knight who does not consume more than three to four remnants during his tenure. Compared to your translation of the Halonian stelae that describes some of these elders to be upwards of fifty to sixty years old, we can assume these elders were not as qualified as I previously thought.

This is all to say, I now believe you were correct in your hypothesis from when we last spoke: a portion of the anecdotes of the last knights active during the late Auranic era refer to a single knight. (Hereby referred to as "The Knight." Though understandable, their aversion to names and titles are very unfortunate from an anthropological sense.) His description in your findings matches at least thirty distinct arcane anomalies responded to by a knight. Assuming each anomaly was due to a singular remnant, we can assume The Knight housed the same amount. (Though I believe there are earlier anecdotes that suggest The Knight once traveled with a mentor, which would suggest he also carried that knights remnants once they passed on.) And if this assumption were to be correct, this would imply The Knight had an exemplary control of his arcanophysicality, of which we have not seen nor seen since.

I wonder what you make of this deduction, and how fares your translations of the remaining stelae from the Aigure Mountain Ruins. My current fascination has led me to the Equilibrius, where the records from the fall of Empyria are kept. I have reason to believe Our Knight was directly involved in the Dismantling, as well as the Transition. I will update you with my findings, even as I eagerly anticipate yours.

— Z

[therepudiatedimmortals]

Kvothe is one of thd most like accurately plural characters ive read in a while it's kind of wild and i dont even know if rothfuss knows

[atiumfrog]

I think I am not horny enough to be in a fandom

[iamyounicorn]

I really should post more about fantasy story [placeholder name] but I often don't know what to say. I feel like i'm repeating myself. which is fine when other people do it, but is not fine for me to do. everyone should just read my mind and immediately understand the fictional universe that lives in my head

[sysig]

Just Desserts continental northern map made using this method! :D (Patreon)

[fleuresdumonde]

The good thing about HP marking a generation is that we are now in the goldmine of wizard school anime parody, and some of them are actually good and/or hilarious

[high-guardian-herbs]

So part of my research for this is flowers and their symbols

For example, I searched the main four plant symbols and this is what I found :

Rosemary : fidelity, love and remembrance

Sage : immortality, wisdom, health and domestic virtue

Parsley : life, death, rebirth

Thyme : courage, power, sacrifice

Among other symbolisms for the rest of the characters

It's an interesting naming system, as you can look at a plant and make a design out of and then make the characterization after the symbolism of it, or have the name be something of a foreshadowing for a plot point regarding a character

(it's also one of the things that annoys me a bit that the characters don't look much like their herbs and flower, even color wise. Such a missed opportunity)

See they even used some of the symbolism, as seen in rosemary always remembering her mom, and her remembering aster in the final ep to come up with a plan at the library and such, and her being the first out of the group to fall in love too

Sage is supposed to be wise I guess but it isn't really showed much, so maybe she was supposed to become so later on? An interesting thought

Honestly parsely symbolism could either be connected to how big her family is (life) or a foreshadowing for a pretty sad plot line (death)

As for thyme, well. I'm not sure, she is kinda strong but, also kind of meh, it doesn't feel like they lent enough on her elf side honestly

It's why I'm planning to make her a coward who is searching for a way to be courageous, that could be her arc, and also have her learn better plant magic to be stronger

I won't spoil much but I need you guys to know that the symbolism, of the main characters especially, will play a big role in their backstory and their future arcs

[thecatinthepurplepants]

I've been listening to A Voice From Darkness podcast and episode 8 was... a fucking ride

Dr. Ryder: oh, okay *already audibly amused* our next comes from Eric who writes: I heard you once fought Dracula. Is that true?

Me: oh haha, even if the supernatural and vampires exist in this setting I doubt that Dracula is real 🤭😏

Dr. Ryder: No, Eric, that's not true...

Me: that's funny, I wonder where he heard tha-

Dr. Ryder: - you're confusing me for my grandfather!

Me:

[astranauticus]

honestly it's kinda funny how my two main fields of study somehow bleed into everything i design (computer science: horrendously rule lawyer-y, requirements on brutal efficiency/biology: central idea on form directly serving function (bleeds severely into my character designs))

[neim-batteries-not-included]

Hey! I was wondering if their is magic in ur fantasy world? If so, how does it work (are people born with it, can it be learned, etc?) I love ur stuff

Thank you so much!!

And there is very much magic within Kunirn, it's actually quite central to people's lives. Most living things, not including plants, have a soul to some degree- as they were all created by the gods. The word soul essentially just refers to any part of a being that isnt physical- ie thoughts, feelings, ideas and most importantly memories. I'll come back to this later.

The gods also have souls. Had?? Had souls?? They are semi-dead so. eh. I'll go with have tghtrnhj. But, gods' souls were different in that they contained what is in one language called yiw yiw is essentially the ability to perform magic- and ONLY gods had this for a while. it actually more closely translates to creation, or influence but its only ever really used in this context but long story short they were dying and were "man it would be nice to preserve ourselves and protect our idiot children" so, again cutting out some details, they did some fuckery with their souls- essentially dividing small parts of them between their mortal followers. (each god had different followers- living in cities dedicated to them, worshipping them, etc. there weren't exactly athiests on Kunirn, seeing as the gods were right there for everyone to see. but, even if someone didnt worship, if they so much as lived near one of the cities the gods decided to grant them the same shit as others. they were surprisingly not terrible sometimes like that) these small parts basically contained a diluted form of yiw. each gods' was different- thus granting different magical abilities depending on the yiw that was. kind of forcefully shoved into mortals' souls

from their it pretty much functioned the same as- say, eye colour. inheritance baby!! the magic that individuals could perform depended on their ancestry. there arent any "dominant" forms of yiw- it just is decided by what is more prominent in the bloodline. (soulline? i suppose you could say soulline.) if its an even split, it is left up to chance. this is quite rare, however. if it does happen, someone would likely find out what magic they can use via trial and error.

due to just how diluted the form of yiw contained within mortal souls is, it could have been lost in the second generation entirely. to remedy this, a cycle was put into place. when magic is performed, a memory- a piece of a soul, containing yiw- is removed and absorbed, so to speak, by the relevant god. that yiw can then be granted to another. the memory is decided on how powerful the magic being cast is- tier one being the least, three being the most. the higher the tier, the more important the memory- thus the higher the concentration of yiw. it is a written system- the writing serves as communication with the god, a request for enough yiw to perform whatever magic the mortal wants to. inks used to write are made of something connected to the god. generally, something they created- a plant, a mineral, etc. it simply adds a layer of clarity to the whole ordeal. written magic contains the magic being cast, the god, the caster's name (what they call themselves, no legal shit here), the target (if its a person, then whatever the caster knows them by- if its an object generally defaults to the closest to the caster fitting that description. or, it can be marked and the mark be used) and the tier- usually just represented by a number. the magic that can be cast wildly differs between- sets?? i dont. have a name for it yet hah. basically just the shit that groups of mortals can do based on yiw. i'll do a post dedicated to that at some point. probably. if i remember. in short, and because ive explained this quite terribly- mortal souls only contain enough yiw to maintain the cycle, not to independently perform magic, so they write shit to communicate with half dead gods to let them do stuff. magic that can be performed is really quite variable, and is decided by bloodline. it is by no means a perfect system, but it was put in place by the gods when they were scared and dying. still, it works. for now. it would completely fall apart, however, if the gods were to truly die. as it stands, they're kind of preserved in stone. lets hope that lasts, hm? sorry this took so long to reply to, i've been busy hah but thank you for the ask! and if anything needs clarifying dont hesitate to ask because my god i am bad at words today and i have. not proof read this ergrhgtduhj.

[apuppetmuseum]

@theircurse asked: Ö

Send a Ö and I’ll reveal a character I’d consider rping.

There are multiple characters from ancient magnus bride i want to rp. Silver Lady being one of them cause i'm a sucker for silent side characters - but I definitely wanna rp Chise and Ruth aswell. I need to catch up on the anime since the second season finally came out. I was caught up with the manga until recently too so i should get back on that.