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  1. Electro Queen

    Questions about fantasy weapons and weapon design

    Man its been awhile since I’ve posted anything on this website. This one’s gonna be a little different though. Rather than asking a single question in relation to a single underlying story/world building problem, this one’s gonna be broken down into a list of different questions all about a...
  2. D

    Windwalking Magic System

    Hello! This is my first post and I have a draft idea of a magic system :] This is a magic system centering around the usage of air and breathing. This system is called Windwalking, and those who are able to use it are called Windwalkers. Windwalking is not an innate or a learned ability. Rather...
  3. E

    How can absorbing the life force of human sacrifices to fuel spells decrease your own life span?

    Alchemy is a branch of magic practiced by witches that involves transmuting materials in the natural environment into various other materials through the use of mana, akin to the life force within humans. The relationship between mana and magic operates similarly to currency in trade and...
  4. LieutenantWolf34

    Seeking Ideas For Magic-Users In The Early 19th Century

    I'm world-building for an alternate history version of Belle Epoque with magic and the like. While I already had some ideas which will be listed below I'm seeking ideas for any more magic users. On Magic Magic is well known in this world being used for many things all the way up to the...
  5. Abhorsen

    The Aspects Of Magic From HP To Brandon Sanderson

    Hello all, I'm new here so go easy on me! :P I joined after discovering a fascinating thread of Old Kingdom fans! Thought I was the only one! Anyway, I wanted to hear what people thoughts were on how magic, or, the difficulty of magic, is presented in popular series. HP for example, are the...
  6. T

    Magic System

    Hi! My favorite world, that I've been working on for quite a while, was mostly built around the political system that I've developed. I'm now stuck at trying to figure out how to incorporate magic into it. so far in what I've written I've used elemental magic - a system in which people with...
  7. Dare Pelletier

    Which Magic system best suits my World?

    My world is a high fantasy secondary world inspired by the Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. The world has the technology of this time period and also will have a magic system which coexists with the technology. I have several ideas for my magic system, but can’t decide which one to...
  8. P

    Basic Question, need help!

    hello all, my name is Patrick jo, as you can see i am new on this platform, actually i've been searching for this kind of website before, to help me get an inspiration for my story. So the Idea for my writing is called Saint Michaelus, its an order created in medieval europe to terminate...
  9. PianoFire

    Magic As a Tool, Instead of a Replacement for Technology

    Hey, first time posting. I’m starting to create the bare bones of this world, and I’m still getting the whole skeleton together. The basics that I have so far is that the most developed parts of the world do have very rough technology. Think DaVinci, and possibly bordering Tesla once...
    • PianoFire
    • Thread
    • culture governance magic magic element rules technology world building
    • Replies: 25
    • Forum: World Building
  10. Michael Roy

    Is giving mortals a way to temporary immortality too op?

    I have a story finished up, but I'm reconsidering making some major edits. I came up with two potions that could give mortals (aka humans) temporary powers in this story. One called Immortalem Interficere allows a mortal person the power to kill an immortal person for 24 hours. The catch is...
  11. Some of my Fantasy/Scifi/Humour works

    The Lord of All

    One of my latest ones. Fantasy. Velvet, a young woman, is rescued from an attack by two strangers. She finds out they are just trying to get back home, and decides to help them. Unfortunately, this task is going to involve a lot more than taking a ship to another city! Brief Excerpt: The...
    • Chinaren
    • Portfolio entry
    • 3 min read
    • fantasy female protagonist magic warrior wizard
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Book Chapters
  12. mc.joeyy

    My Elves

    In planning and drafting my fantasy novel, I've come to learn that the elves found in my world aren't too much like elves traditionally found in fantasy. I wanted to know if this was a problem, and if they stray too far from their origins. Characteristics of my elves: -Have demonic ancestry (in...
    • mc.joeyy
    • Thread
    • blood demon elves fantasy magic nature world building
    • Replies: 29
    • Forum: World Building
  13. I

    Casting Fire from Food

    So, according to some Pignite's Pokedex entries, it has the ability to convert the food it eats into the energy necessary to create fire internally (Fennekin is very similar, but it eats twigs and sticks instead of actual food). I'm currently designing a tribe of mages with the ability to...
  14. Druidcraft rites

    Druidcraft rites

    As a druid, many magic effects can be evoked, you can shape shift, you can speak to plants and animals, it all depends in the path you choose to follow, the red one will focus on transforming you into the definitve shape shifter and talk with the moving beings of the lands, while the green one...
    • Hunter
    • Portfolio entry
    • 2 min read
    • druid druids magic magic building
    • Comments: 5
    • Category: Mythic Worlds
  15. Nimbia: Nomads of Otto

    The Child God

    "We will walk into the horizon every day and every night, we will seek injustice and take down those who impart it, so are the orders of the Son of the Wind" Youngest of all of the four brothers, Otto arrived to a world were pretty much everything was taken, and so, he tried to learn from his...
    • Hunter
    • Portfolio entry
    • 2 min read
    • desert gods lore magic world lore
    • Category: Mythic Worlds
  16. Nimbia: Nomads of Otto

    Nimbia: Nomads of Otto

    Here walks the young king Otto and his caravans of wanderers, bending time and seeing prophecies, while riding beasts and the wind itself, they travel long and wide through all Nimbia, through the forests, to the frozen lands, even the plains and deserts of the barren lands of the south, here...
    • Hunter
    • Portfolio
    • animals beasts desert gods lore magic world lore
    • Portfolio entries: 1
  17. Wizard Tournament

    Wizard Tournament

    • S.T. Ockenner
    • Media item
    • art fantasy magic
    • Comments: 1
    • Category: Fantasy Art
  18. Mari More

    Help! My Magic System is a mess and I need to allocate my sub elements :)

    Hi, I'm a new member of this community but I've been going in and out of this page for months now. Anyways, I'm a wannabe writer who writes about fantasy world stories. This time, I'm writing about a world revolving around magic and has no correlation or connection to 'Earth'. My world has no...
    • Mari More
    • Thread
    • elemental magic fantasy novel help help! magic magic building magic system magic systems powers world building
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: World Building
  19. S.T. Ockenner

    Weird Weapon/Creature/Magic Ideas

    Here, I'll share one of mine: Wait...what if you put sulfuric acid IN a brick? Then it would be perfect for battle! Break the brick on a wall, and acid sprays down on a bunch of people! The people will just think you're throwing a brick at them, so they'll duck...then acid falls on their head...
    • S.T. Ockenner
    • Thread
    • creature magic monsters poo poo and pee pee (just kidding) weapon weeeeeeeeeeeerd weerd weird
    • Replies: 26
    • Forum: Chit Chat
  20. S.T. Ockenner

    New Attempt At A Magic System

    So, I want there to be different types of magic- I already have elemental magic, it is casted by using special elemental orbs that are very rare and look like Skyrim spells (a bit of fire in someone's hand) but I need other types of magic too. I am not doing a spell system, I'm doing a more...
    • S.T. Ockenner
    • Thread
    • disciplines of magic elemental magic magic magic building magic system magic systems orders of magic types of magic
    • Replies: 38
    • Forum: World Building
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