Reblog To Put One Of These In Your Mutuals’ Pocket When They’re Not Looking

You're my reason...🧿☕️📼

"Look at the sky, Martin. Look at the sky. It’s looking back."

Drew The Magnus Archives season 4 finale, this is the first piece in a while thag actually took me days to complete. Also made a funny shitty little poster thing because why not

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Simple Tips for Magic Systems

Typically splitting the writing/explanation of the magic helps me to convey my point.

What is it?

just a general explanation of what the magic actually is, maybe a vague explanation of how it works. Who can wield it? Is it genetic or learnt? What does it look like? Stuff like that.

Purpose

The narrative purpose of the magic is it used for flashy fights that hold more emotional weight through the outcome of the battle, or is it the enchantment of an item and the giving of such an item, means something?

Origins/history

This is self-explanatory and I personally believe this is important, although really only works with medium-hard magic systems, soft systems can have it but may cause issues in world-building.

Techniques/methods/Casting

Obviously, it must be explained to some capacity how magic is done and what happens. eg. if 𝑥 is added to y then 𝓏 will occur. Of course, this is respective to what the magic is itself. It’s mainly the place to further expand on the ‘what is it?’ section.

Limitations

THIS ONE IS MY FAVOURITE. Please, cripple your magic to hell, and bring those who wield it down to a level only slightly above the normal person. OR create a cost that is great enough to be debatably not worth it in certain situations. of course this really depends on the hardness of your system. This is also where you put something like the cost and price of your magic.

Progression

how does the magic evolve over the course of a wielder’s life? whether they learn or have it genetically handed down how does one get better at magic?

I’ll be posting an example of how this looks when paired with an actual example soon, so you’re welcome to follow for that, otherwise, I hope this helped! Have a great day :)

they look like they're from an office romcom and not a horror podcast

autism be damned my boy can heart. lungs. liver. nerves.

OMG IS THAT THE JARCHIVIST :O

yeah so finally mapped out my jon design though the seasons :) gave him a bit of a design change from my old drawings cause i dont like the old one anymore hbeghrtht

wylan van eck at the merchant council meetings

Man I love season 2 because every episode Jon is like “okay I pinky promise to act normal and stop being weird to you guys” and then by the end he goes

“Supplemental.

I am eating Tim’s walls.”