Hi All.
So, "magic" in my world is created by stones, called Tiers. They're small enough to be implanted, or to "melt" into skin without causing much in the way of problems moving.
My feeling is that these Tiers change how you interact with the world, without directly affecting the world themselves. So for example...
You have a Power Tier. This allows you to increase the hardness of your skin to protect you from a sword strike, or to enhance your strength to deal a more telling blow. Not both at the same time.
Someone with a Burning Tier can resist heat (useful on the sub-solar side of the tide-locked planet). It can also allow you to burn like the Human Torch, without hurting you. You can then pick things up and burn them, or punch someone for some nice burns to go along with the pow.
You wouldn't be able to throw a fireball, and you wouldn't be able to, for example, use it to set a ball of oil-soaked rags on fire to throw, because the fire from the rags is not your fire, so would burn you as normal.
I'd like some suggestions for the types of effect someone would be able to get, with various types of stone. They could be gemstones, they could just be rocks, that doesn't matter so much.
I had a thought that perhaps they would have to absorb some power before you can use it outwardly. So before you can enhance your strength, you must absorb some from an enemy's strike. To go "flame on!" you must have absorbed some heat first.
Your thoughts, community!
Thanks.
So, "magic" in my world is created by stones, called Tiers. They're small enough to be implanted, or to "melt" into skin without causing much in the way of problems moving.
My feeling is that these Tiers change how you interact with the world, without directly affecting the world themselves. So for example...
You have a Power Tier. This allows you to increase the hardness of your skin to protect you from a sword strike, or to enhance your strength to deal a more telling blow. Not both at the same time.
Someone with a Burning Tier can resist heat (useful on the sub-solar side of the tide-locked planet). It can also allow you to burn like the Human Torch, without hurting you. You can then pick things up and burn them, or punch someone for some nice burns to go along with the pow.
You wouldn't be able to throw a fireball, and you wouldn't be able to, for example, use it to set a ball of oil-soaked rags on fire to throw, because the fire from the rags is not your fire, so would burn you as normal.
I'd like some suggestions for the types of effect someone would be able to get, with various types of stone. They could be gemstones, they could just be rocks, that doesn't matter so much.
I had a thought that perhaps they would have to absorb some power before you can use it outwardly. So before you can enhance your strength, you must absorb some from an enemy's strike. To go "flame on!" you must have absorbed some heat first.
Your thoughts, community!
Thanks.