tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390557356997344.post7074113456439404349..comments2024-03-22T03:59:39.188-07:00Comments on Dive into Worldbuilding: Magic Systems: a Google+ Worldbuilding Hangout ReportJuliette Wadehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02879627074920760712noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390557356997344.post-14385748953399581202011-11-03T11:34:02.951-07:002011-11-03T11:34:02.951-07:00Sounds like a great conversation! I wish I could ...Sounds like a great conversation! I wish I could make these, but I enjoy reading these summaries. Thanks for posting them.MKHutchinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07715686902529938959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390557356997344.post-6137722845561249842011-11-03T01:30:01.505-07:002011-11-03T01:30:01.505-07:00I have a magic system idea I'm working on. The...I have a magic system idea I'm working on. There are some not-very-nice people from the high mountains who have magic related to the ice and snow of their homeland. There is our heroine, who for reasons that will become obvious once you read the story (once I WRITE the story), has her own fire-based magic. <br>There is also a disgraced priest who lost his magic (details of said magic yet to be worked out) when he lost his faith. But he has discovered a very nasty substitute for his lost magic...<br>Oh, and another race of people who lost a war and fled to this world with their strange magic they call "science".David Marshallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-937390557356997344.post-55254777663205679592011-11-02T07:55:04.699-07:002011-11-02T07:55:04.699-07:00He also brought up the great point that the presen...<i>He also brought up the great point that the presence of magic in a society would have enormous cultural implications.</i><br><br>This is in fact one of the things that makes writing stories in my current world so interesting to me: the fact that everybody reacts to the abnormal differently, and societies will find different ways to contain it.<br><br>While technically not magic, extraordinary powers in the Peninsula behave very much like magic. Only certain people with the correct genetic markers have it. What makes it extra fun is that there are TWO markers: one for having a "clomen system" in the body that allows use of powers and one for whether or not the body will actually implement it. Because of this, there are latents, carriers, and Gifteds.<br><br>And then you have the different countries. In one, they have banned all Gifteds and only have baselines. In another, they mix together indiscriminately. In another, the Gifteds are revered. In another, they have killed off all their baselines, considering them inferior. <br><br>And then in my favorite, Vardin, they have created a strict system of a baseline royal family that is bound to serve the baseline council and to whom all Gifted familes are bound to serve. This makes the baseline folk feel safe because the royal family is of them and looks out for their interest. The Gifteds become Guardians and hold most of the power, but can be stopped physically from hurting anyone by the Queen.<br><br>Even when you're working with "science," sufficiently advanced, it always behaves like magic.Liana Mirhttp://lianamir.comnoreply@blogger.com