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Troubadour
I'm currently working on a story in a world I created. Basically, in my head, the workings of the world make perfect sense. However, when I told my husband about it, I realized it might not make sense to people who are not in my head!
I would greatly appreciate any feed back on the idea below.
Basically, in the beginning, the "Creator" made two identical worlds. Each world was given their own sun and their own moon. The only difference in the worlds is that one is rich in magic while the other has never had magic touch it's soil. Each world can see the other world in the sky, much like how we can see our moon from ours (only slightly closer). The world of magic was filled with your typical magic beings, elves, dragons etc. And the world without was filled with humans, dwarves etc.
Any who, eventually the races grew curious as to what was on the other world so close to theirs, so consumed with greed for the unknown they each prayed to the creator to merge the worlds together so that they could have whatever the other might have as well. At first the Creator was hurt by this request, he had made each race the perfect world for them and yet they were still not satisfied. Finally, when he could not convince them otherwise he gave into their requests and merged the worlds into one. This is why the world now had two moons and two suns.
Of course, chaos quickly followed as each world tried to battle for dominance over the other. In the end they nearly wiped each other out before finally coming to their senses and begging the creator to separate the worlds once more.
Unfortunately, the creator could not separate the worlds. Over the years, the worlds had slowly merged into one even down to their cores and in order to pull them apart one of the worlds would be destroyed. Unable to decide on which world should be destroyed they finally settled on agreement. The creator pulled as much of the remaining magic as possible into large pools across the globe.
These pools of magic became the realm of magic where magical beings retreated to. There are certain places where the magic leaks over into the non-magic world and that is where beings that possess a strong enough magic can cross in between them. If you do not posses any magic at all you cannot even sense these entrances, and unless your magic is quite strong you cannot pass freely in between without the aid of a magical being.
Due to the merging of the worlds not all magic was able to be extracted from the earth leaving small traces in the non-magic world. This has allowed some of the non-magic beings to be born with the ability to learn some magic such as witches and wizards through out the years. However, most of these beings are not very strong compared to those races left over from the magic world.
Elves, dragons, unicorns, mermaids, faeries, etc. Tend to avoid the human realm since they are smaller in numbers and find themselves superior to the non-magic beings. Although some have found it beneficial to make a living using their abilities in the human realm, it is rare to find such a being. Everyone else lives in the human non-magic realm feeling superior to the magic beings.
The hub thinks that if the creator was so powerful, why didn't he seal off these realms so that they two could never be part of each other again (its now one world with 2 realms). My logic was that, since the two worlds were now tainted with each other, this was basically the best situation one could have without destroying one of the worlds. The two worlds made their choice, fall from Eden, if you will, and now this is the best solution for them with their broken worlds.
He then asked why wouldn't the magical beings take over the non-magical beings with this passage way in between. My response was for the same reason they couldn't do it to begin with the the two worlds were initially combined. Yes, they're magical, but it doesn't make them OP compared to the non-magical beings. Plus they are greatly outnumbered. The magical beings live much longer life spans than the non-man beings and in turn do not produce as many children during their life time. I like to think of it as for ever 5 non-magic being there is only one magic being. Or something like that.
Then he asked, so the creator is more like a greek god, not all powerful? And I said No, he is all powerful but it's not really relevant to the story. When people talk about it now, they talk about it as an old folk tale as how the world was created and most people do not even believe in a creator anymore. Which by this point I think he was done with me, so he had no more questions.
Alright, I think that is everything. See, it works in my head but not in his. lol Please feel free to pick away!
I would greatly appreciate any feed back on the idea below.
Basically, in the beginning, the "Creator" made two identical worlds. Each world was given their own sun and their own moon. The only difference in the worlds is that one is rich in magic while the other has never had magic touch it's soil. Each world can see the other world in the sky, much like how we can see our moon from ours (only slightly closer). The world of magic was filled with your typical magic beings, elves, dragons etc. And the world without was filled with humans, dwarves etc.
Any who, eventually the races grew curious as to what was on the other world so close to theirs, so consumed with greed for the unknown they each prayed to the creator to merge the worlds together so that they could have whatever the other might have as well. At first the Creator was hurt by this request, he had made each race the perfect world for them and yet they were still not satisfied. Finally, when he could not convince them otherwise he gave into their requests and merged the worlds into one. This is why the world now had two moons and two suns.
Of course, chaos quickly followed as each world tried to battle for dominance over the other. In the end they nearly wiped each other out before finally coming to their senses and begging the creator to separate the worlds once more.
Unfortunately, the creator could not separate the worlds. Over the years, the worlds had slowly merged into one even down to their cores and in order to pull them apart one of the worlds would be destroyed. Unable to decide on which world should be destroyed they finally settled on agreement. The creator pulled as much of the remaining magic as possible into large pools across the globe.
These pools of magic became the realm of magic where magical beings retreated to. There are certain places where the magic leaks over into the non-magic world and that is where beings that possess a strong enough magic can cross in between them. If you do not posses any magic at all you cannot even sense these entrances, and unless your magic is quite strong you cannot pass freely in between without the aid of a magical being.
Due to the merging of the worlds not all magic was able to be extracted from the earth leaving small traces in the non-magic world. This has allowed some of the non-magic beings to be born with the ability to learn some magic such as witches and wizards through out the years. However, most of these beings are not very strong compared to those races left over from the magic world.
Elves, dragons, unicorns, mermaids, faeries, etc. Tend to avoid the human realm since they are smaller in numbers and find themselves superior to the non-magic beings. Although some have found it beneficial to make a living using their abilities in the human realm, it is rare to find such a being. Everyone else lives in the human non-magic realm feeling superior to the magic beings.
The hub thinks that if the creator was so powerful, why didn't he seal off these realms so that they two could never be part of each other again (its now one world with 2 realms). My logic was that, since the two worlds were now tainted with each other, this was basically the best situation one could have without destroying one of the worlds. The two worlds made their choice, fall from Eden, if you will, and now this is the best solution for them with their broken worlds.
He then asked why wouldn't the magical beings take over the non-magical beings with this passage way in between. My response was for the same reason they couldn't do it to begin with the the two worlds were initially combined. Yes, they're magical, but it doesn't make them OP compared to the non-magical beings. Plus they are greatly outnumbered. The magical beings live much longer life spans than the non-man beings and in turn do not produce as many children during their life time. I like to think of it as for ever 5 non-magic being there is only one magic being. Or something like that.
Then he asked, so the creator is more like a greek god, not all powerful? And I said No, he is all powerful but it's not really relevant to the story. When people talk about it now, they talk about it as an old folk tale as how the world was created and most people do not even believe in a creator anymore. Which by this point I think he was done with me, so he had no more questions.
Alright, I think that is everything. See, it works in my head but not in his. lol Please feel free to pick away!