I have a couple of ideas of how I want to enforce magic into the world I am currently building and I would like someones opinion on them...
Magic of the soul (I'll just call it this for now):
This form of magic everyone has access to but most people do not know how to use it. The magic is the energy that keeps them alive and slowly decays as they get older, using this form of magic causes them to grow older rapidly (depending on how much energy you use). So for example if you cast a spell using this form of magic and it required a lot of energy and was extremely complicated then by the time that spell has resolved you could go from your teens to your late 40's. On the other hand if you cast a fairly simple spell you may only be aged by a couple of days and not feel any of the side effects.
Since people who use magic cannot just go around casting their life away they acquire familiars to serve them. Familiars can be created from anything living as long as it was born naturally (because anything that does not form naturally does not contain a soul and therefore cannot be a candidate to become a familiar). A familiar is a living thing whose conscience is turned into pure life force energy.
The Soul Breather makes a link to the familiar as soon as it is created (otherwise complications could arise) and instead of using its own life force, it drains the energy from the familiar instead.
Without a conscience the creature will do what ever it master asks of it (though it still needs to be looked after properly; fed, watered etc.).
The amount of energy that the Familiar can give depends entirely on the size of the animal and how much energy it would of used throughout its life (though the larger the animal the harder it is to convert it into a familiar).
crystal magic:
The general idea of this form of magic is to be able to convert crystals, gemstones and minerals to pure energy, it is difficult to do but is very rewarding. The only problem is that once you drained all the energy out of the gemstone it becomes corrupted and crumbles into dust making it worthless. The amount of energy that can be extracted from gemstone varies depending on what it is.
The harder the gemstone the harder it is to extract the energy, a diamond contains a lot of energy (more than any other gemstone) but it is so rigid that it is next to impossible to extract the energy buried deep within.
Magic of the sun (known as Solathra):
This is magic that gets its energy from the sun. Due to the readily available energy it is important that a person who wishes to use this type of magic learns from an expert; this is because the problem with this type of magic is that unless you know how to, it can be difficult for that person to be able to stop absorbing energy once they have started. This could end up with the person absorbing more energy than their body can handle and release so much energy at once that their body disintergrates. This type of magic is used mainly for healing and lighting up darkened areas. This form of energy can be stored in the body (if the person knows how) but it rapidly decomposes and will only a day after it has been collected.
Magic of the moon (known as Lunapera):
This form of magic is difficult to grasp as the energy is chaotic and seems to resist when someone tries to control it. It can only be used during nights when the moon is visible in the sky (a person will not be able to use lunapera unless they can actually see the moon meaning that if it is cloudy then they will not be able to do anything with this form of magic). People who use this form of magic require much longer in order to prepare a spell as they will first need to gather this energy before they can cast the spell. Though being quite well known amongst the human population most of the people are self taught by acquiring a lunar tome (a book which contains everything you need to learn how to do simple spells with Lunapera).
Relational magic:
This is basically anything that binds one thing to the soul breather, it is one of the most binding forms of magic in existance, anything created through this form of magic can only be destroyed in two ways; the first is for the soul breather who created the bond to destroy the result of whatever they created or a soul dispersion (which is when the life of a human is forfeited in order to complete and utterly destroy something (in such a way that there is no trace left of what was destroyed through this way).
Finally there is the use of rituals:
Rituals are mainly use to summon beasts from heaven or hell (probably will have to change the name of those two since if I do manage to write a book based on this then it will be implied that creatures of evil intent can come from both plains). The only way to carry out a ritual is to sacrifice a living being with its consience still intact (meaning that familiars cannot be used). The amount of lives you will need to offer depends on he size and power of the beast. When the ritual is carried out the tissue and life force of all the creatures used for the ritual weave together to form the creature that they wish to bring forth. These rituals are rarely carried out because of the fact that a creature summoned this way is extremely hard to control.
I tried to keep it as short or as brief as possible.... but I always did find it difficult to simplify things. There are couple of other ideas I have but this post is long already.
Anyone have any ideas of how i could improve these ideas?
Magic of the soul (I'll just call it this for now):
This form of magic everyone has access to but most people do not know how to use it. The magic is the energy that keeps them alive and slowly decays as they get older, using this form of magic causes them to grow older rapidly (depending on how much energy you use). So for example if you cast a spell using this form of magic and it required a lot of energy and was extremely complicated then by the time that spell has resolved you could go from your teens to your late 40's. On the other hand if you cast a fairly simple spell you may only be aged by a couple of days and not feel any of the side effects.
Since people who use magic cannot just go around casting their life away they acquire familiars to serve them. Familiars can be created from anything living as long as it was born naturally (because anything that does not form naturally does not contain a soul and therefore cannot be a candidate to become a familiar). A familiar is a living thing whose conscience is turned into pure life force energy.
The Soul Breather makes a link to the familiar as soon as it is created (otherwise complications could arise) and instead of using its own life force, it drains the energy from the familiar instead.
Without a conscience the creature will do what ever it master asks of it (though it still needs to be looked after properly; fed, watered etc.).
The amount of energy that the Familiar can give depends entirely on the size of the animal and how much energy it would of used throughout its life (though the larger the animal the harder it is to convert it into a familiar).
crystal magic:
The general idea of this form of magic is to be able to convert crystals, gemstones and minerals to pure energy, it is difficult to do but is very rewarding. The only problem is that once you drained all the energy out of the gemstone it becomes corrupted and crumbles into dust making it worthless. The amount of energy that can be extracted from gemstone varies depending on what it is.
The harder the gemstone the harder it is to extract the energy, a diamond contains a lot of energy (more than any other gemstone) but it is so rigid that it is next to impossible to extract the energy buried deep within.
Magic of the sun (known as Solathra):
This is magic that gets its energy from the sun. Due to the readily available energy it is important that a person who wishes to use this type of magic learns from an expert; this is because the problem with this type of magic is that unless you know how to, it can be difficult for that person to be able to stop absorbing energy once they have started. This could end up with the person absorbing more energy than their body can handle and release so much energy at once that their body disintergrates. This type of magic is used mainly for healing and lighting up darkened areas. This form of energy can be stored in the body (if the person knows how) but it rapidly decomposes and will only a day after it has been collected.
Magic of the moon (known as Lunapera):
This form of magic is difficult to grasp as the energy is chaotic and seems to resist when someone tries to control it. It can only be used during nights when the moon is visible in the sky (a person will not be able to use lunapera unless they can actually see the moon meaning that if it is cloudy then they will not be able to do anything with this form of magic). People who use this form of magic require much longer in order to prepare a spell as they will first need to gather this energy before they can cast the spell. Though being quite well known amongst the human population most of the people are self taught by acquiring a lunar tome (a book which contains everything you need to learn how to do simple spells with Lunapera).
Relational magic:
This is basically anything that binds one thing to the soul breather, it is one of the most binding forms of magic in existance, anything created through this form of magic can only be destroyed in two ways; the first is for the soul breather who created the bond to destroy the result of whatever they created or a soul dispersion (which is when the life of a human is forfeited in order to complete and utterly destroy something (in such a way that there is no trace left of what was destroyed through this way).
Finally there is the use of rituals:
Rituals are mainly use to summon beasts from heaven or hell (probably will have to change the name of those two since if I do manage to write a book based on this then it will be implied that creatures of evil intent can come from both plains). The only way to carry out a ritual is to sacrifice a living being with its consience still intact (meaning that familiars cannot be used). The amount of lives you will need to offer depends on he size and power of the beast. When the ritual is carried out the tissue and life force of all the creatures used for the ritual weave together to form the creature that they wish to bring forth. These rituals are rarely carried out because of the fact that a creature summoned this way is extremely hard to control.
I tried to keep it as short or as brief as possible.... but I always did find it difficult to simplify things. There are couple of other ideas I have but this post is long already.
Anyone have any ideas of how i could improve these ideas?
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