What type of magic are we dealing with in this world? We don’t have any defined limits in the description so, really the world is completely open. Think about artifacts that could help/hinder these goals. If you’re thinking about your long-term gain, you want to essentially “level up” quickly, die and be reborn so you can achieve greater status and power. What if someone creates an artifact that can keep someone alive against their will? Remember, life is different in this world, so priorities have shifted. That means we have educated people working on world problems. We know that there’s education in this world and that it has helped to maintain a balance. We don’t have to deliberate over what happens when someone dies – we already know!Īnd for the plot, the people know as well – so how does that change their approach to living and dying? Element Three: ArtifactsĪlthough the summary above doesn’t really give us anything concrete to go by, we get a hint. Our Magic System deliberately defines that people have souls and so we have concrete knowledge in the context of our world. When we consider the physical layer, a hill is a hill. This one is a little trickier since we have no direct knowledge to fall back on. How do Traffic Officers perform now that there’s magic? Where do the people of this world live? How do they live and how does the Magic System change how they interact with where and how they live?ĭaniel Greene did a great video on this and had an excellent suggestion – go out into the actual, real-world and try to live A Day in the Life of someone normal – see how they would be impacted by your magic system. We have two very obvious layers: Layer 1: The Physical World This is where we figure out the layers of our Magic System. Suddenly, there’s motivation to plan long-term and discover how you would gain and lose power. What if you discovered a way to make an enemy forget a piece of their magic? Or better yet, a way to transfer it to yourself? It makes it much harder to write BUT it also introduces the concept that power can shift. This opens up a couple of issues and possibilities. This also immediately allows us to introduce tiers to our society – those who remember more will naturally gravitate to the top of society while those who remember less will naturally be disadvantaged. Nothing is fun when everyone has lived a thousand lives and remembers everything. Not as obvious as Rule 1 but still interesting – let’s impose a limit on the secrets that our people can remember. What if, to fit the Chosen One trope, we have a “new soul” enter the world? What does their power look like? Rule 2: You cannot remember all of your past lives Sure, but why is that important to declare? Well, it allows us to potentially do something interesting by bending this rule. This seems obvious – if you’re being reincarnated, you have to have died first. Rule 1: In order to get power, you must die
This rule will bind everything together and make sure that the system has a central core. We’re told that the magic is based on reincarnation, so that’s a good rule to use as a first or “binding” rule.
So, let’s examine the potential rules for this scenario. That’s certainly not what we want in our magic system. We know that without rules, everything goes all wibbly-wobbly. (Side note: It’s interesting enough that I may actually use it in a future project. The more powerful you are, the more likely you are to be recruited by a secret society.Īlright – has the potential to be interesting. As always, there are bad people who have made secret societies to manipulate the world. Some people are selfish with their power and some are kind.
#Inkist magic user how to
Established education centres help to regulate some of the magic users and teach them how to handle their power, but there are always those who have inherited long lines of power.
We pass power down through generations of reincarnations so can grow pretty huge. Magic comes from a reincarnation cycle that is common across the world. What should we base our magic system on? Let’s do a quick exercise to figure that out.
#Inkist magic user series
As we draw this series to a close, it might be interesting to look back on what we’ve discovered and lay the groundwork for a Magic System that’s unique, interesting, and realistic – as far as that’s possible when talking about something entirely fictional.
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