Comment on Fantasy Sketchdump 3 by Dyemelikeasunset
World building is important, especially if you're thinking of opening it up to others to write in. Gotta define things down to a SCIENCE.
Speaking of which, have you given any thought to the magic system? (other then the born under a star thing that dictates your magic type, I read that somewhere)
Speaking of which, have you given any thought to the magic system? (other then the born under a star thing that dictates your magic type, I read that somewhere)
Yep, this is what I got so far:
Everyone is born under an elemental star, which decides their affiliation for the rest of their lives (only one element per person, even magic users can't learn outside of their element)
Everyone is born under an elemental star, which decides their affiliation for the rest of their lives (only one element per person, even magic users can't learn outside of their element)
While everyone has magic abilities, it's something that has to be trained intensively. Some people will even take dangerous shortcuts, such as tattoos or magic runes and items, but those shortcuts have a risk of back-firing or overpowering the user... resulting in a mentally and magically unstable Elemental.
There are six elements overall (fire, water, earth, air, wood, and metal), and each person tends to gravitate towards one aspect of that element. For example, one of my characters uses water magic, but jives with the cold part of the element, thus she uses ice. Another is a fire-user, specifically in heat, and yet another uses air, or sound
There are six elements overall (fire, water, earth, air, wood, and metal), and each person tends to gravitate towards one aspect of that element. For example, one of my characters uses water magic, but jives with the cold part of the element, thus she uses ice. Another is a fire-user, specifically in heat, and yet another uses air, or sound
Ok, but is that the extent of it? That's a great way to put up affiliations/skill sets for magic and you even get a little bit of execution in there, but what about cost? Not to nit pick, but I figured such a deep universe would have a deep magic system. If not, that's cool too. Sometimes simplicity is best.
Also, have you considered light and dark as magic types as well? You just seem to be pulling from the eastern table of elements, which include fire, earth, air, water, metal, wood, light and dark. I'm not familiar with an element table that has wood and steel without light and dark.
Also, have you considered light and dark as magic types as well? You just seem to be pulling from the eastern table of elements, which include fire, earth, air, water, metal, wood, light and dark. I'm not familiar with an element table that has wood and steel without light and dark.
Saying Eastern elements is really broad and misinformed, since that could be the Hindu elements OR Chinese OR Japanese or many others. I mainly put together the Chinese elements with Western Alchemy. Wu Xing doesn't include Air, and doesn't have light and dark for that matter.
But to answer your first question, yeah, simplicity is what I'm going for at the moment
But to answer your first question, yeah, simplicity is what I'm going for at the moment
guess that works, and I wanted to say chinese elements, but I was kinda worried that I was getting the wrong culture. High School world civ was a LONG time ago for me.