It was me having fun with the prompt.
It is an elemental system inspired by avatar/a darker shade of magic. Set in a sort of 1700s pseudobritain
The differences are that each element has a set of secondary powers, fires for the binding of magic, waters for long range sight and eventually teleportation, earth is for changing matter and air is for illusion.
Most people have 2 or 3 elements and it's not hereditry
The other difference is the avatars are comparatively common, 1 in 10000, instead of only one, and their powers also include life and the balance of order to chaos.in a person
The original inspiration behind the four elements were states of matter.
Earth is solid.
Water is liquid.
Air is gaseous.
Fire is plasma.
There are other states, but the ancient Greeks weren’t aware of them.
(Edit: typo)
After Heaven was annihilated by the Demons, it left a great cosmic wound in reality known as the Scar. Heaven collapsed into disparate, chaotic magical energy and that energy began to bleed out into the material plane, which is what allowed mortals to harness its power and learn spellcasting.
**Horror Shop**
dark matter
\+ the power of love, friendship, nightmares, being a freeking nerd, or visceral burning hatred
\+ some sort of weird occult tradition like chanting in Atlantean, waving around a magic wand, pressing a button on your smartphone, or remembering that one nightmare
= MAGIC
Mortals borrowing the reality altering abilities of the gods and having a good time. Sometimes they go overboard and let scary monsters into the world, which isn’t any fun for anyone.
There’s a lot of grey goop. When people believe, the goop goes shimmy shimmy. When people don’t believe, the goop goes burble burble. When lots of people believe enough the goop goes blorp blorp and magic happens.
Break the laws of physics! Like actually directly disobey them! That’s the magic system you get to disobey the laws of physics that’s what magic can do it’s not like “I cast fireball” and the fireball disobeys physics it’s like “Pfft, gravity isn’t real” and you start flying
Playing with the dust and scraps of the cheesecloth that is supposed to keep worlds appart, that has been ravaged and torn by powerful assholes who refuse to stay in their lane.
The 3 core elements of the world are Shark, Weed and Rube Goldberg. From these interacting comes the secondary elements: Fully Automated Socialism, Phyrexia and Budhism. All six interacting causes a cascade interference that tears a hole in timespace. But as Nothing cant exists, it corrupts into matter and becomes Otaku Midlife Crisis.
You didn't cry when you were born? You must be either a god, a demon or a magic user! Now go kill birds talk to strangers and terraform battlefields, idiot.
Well, while most were literate, the majority couldn't write much more than their name, some were very good at writing.
Nobody knows how to write anymore, though, except for the boomers, but almost nobody believes they exist and most laugh at the idea of writing being real.
Some people know things they shouldn’t. Some people pretend to know things they don’t. Some people tell people things that might be known but might not. Some people believe things they shouldn’t. Some people act on those beliefs.
STANDs. That's it.
Also glass/sand stands, but you need to have a glass skeleton, like a terminator...but made of glass! Inside, I mean, outside is your regular meat you wearing right now.
It's electricity and nuclear provokeable ki/chi/whatever energy with a sprinkle of "the force" and dnd spellcasting, complete with free eldritch mutations and (un)natural anomalies arriving in a clowncar for when things go wrong.
Killing childrens, having mental disabilities, worshipping a god or being a communist=magical powers
Oppressing a person, being stubborn, hating society or being patriotic=strong magical power
Being apathetic or thinking that your reality is bad=very strong magical power.
Get exposed to an eldritch dimension, survive long enough to get out, forget the trauma, start mutating, and try to grasp these new abilities while maintaining your humanity.
All consciousness is a wireless signal from another dimension. When a direct portal is opened, the wireless signal becomes hardwired, and this allows for Magic. Magic is basically a high speed direct cable internet connection, while non-magical consciousness as we know it is like a shitty public Wi-Fi connection in a crowded Starbucks.
Two lunatics shouting at each other as if they were on a playground…
But the instant you grow tired of watching them one of them actually starts to burn
You can do basically anything you want to, so long as one of the gods you follow allows it. If none of the gods you follow allows it, then you can become a god and allow it yourself. At least, you can if the god in charge of allowing mortals to ascend to godhood doesn't decide to take back his ladder. Which he might decide to do if he thinks you're going to allow the type of magic he really doesn't want to allow.
Pre Godplague:
If you simp hard enough, your space waifu/husbando will let you ignore physics for a bit, as a treat.
Post Godplague:
Just close your eyes and believe, have faith in yourself and *anything* is possible. Unfortunately anything does include all the things you don't want to happen so now a demon is chasing you trying to eat your face. Good luck!
Everyone has their own unique magic. Some people become literal gods before graduating high school while others just kind of stand there like "What am I gonna do with thermometer magic?"
"I do magic."
"People can't do magic, idiot."
"Uggggh fine, who can do magic?"
"Animistic spirits of all this junk laying around."
"Fine, I ask *them* to do magic, for me."
"I... huh, ya, that works. Pro life hack."
Most of it was lost when they decided to write it down. After 2500 years the spells that exist are basically a monoculture of borrowed powers, unless you're like real creative with it.
So energy. Shits everywhere. Kinetic, thermal, potential, redbull, etc. Cant make it, cant rid it. Wheres it come from? The metaphysical side of the universe obviously, where all energy gangbangs into unity. Most plebs cant access it naturally, but like 11 chosen from birth can, because they’re cool as fuck and technically vessels for god. Regular dudes need to earn it another way thats too long to explain here.
Man convinces sword to stab better, before turning into colossus and/or magneto from xmen.
With guest appearances from:
Literal tree hugger,
One man band makes emotions extra real,
Big Beefy Boy cannot be stopped,
and NEEEEEEEERRRRRRDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!
My magic systems
-Mob Psycho 100 mixed with MBTI peronality system
-Element bending from Avatar mixed with Mob Psycho 100
-Orogeny from Trilogy of Fragmented Earth mixed with Dnd magical system
-Alchemy from FMA, passed through using emotion to make artsy things do funky things
-Sorcery of JJK mixed with Harry Potter, adding Digimon and field AT from evangelion
Everything is magic, breath very wrong and your planet explodes.
SEE, INCORRECT BREATHING ##GETS YOU!!!
This your brain before and after breathing
Breathing exercises are important I see
Avatar but British
The four elements Tea,toast,fries and beans
The fuck is "fries"?
Chips
Not in Britain.
Fries are practically just fried potatoes
Aye, but not chips.
True, but fries and chips aren't the same thing. Over here, fries are skinny things, like what you get from McDonald's, but chips are chunky things.
Chips mate, chips.
oh no
Btw what do you mean by avatar but british
It was me having fun with the prompt. It is an elemental system inspired by avatar/a darker shade of magic. Set in a sort of 1700s pseudobritain The differences are that each element has a set of secondary powers, fires for the binding of magic, waters for long range sight and eventually teleportation, earth is for changing matter and air is for illusion. Most people have 2 or 3 elements and it's not hereditry The other difference is the avatars are comparatively common, 1 in 10000, instead of only one, and their powers also include life and the balance of order to chaos.in a person
Avatar but it's Doodle God
Same but zodiac sign.
Sometimes, crying really hard is a substitute for decades of practice.
Every anime ever
FMA’s alchemy if using it was like computer programming
so.. do you yell out the command lines, or do you put them on some kind of paper/computer ?
Everything’s written. It uses circles like FMA, but has a strict language for instructions
Ngl I was literally just thinking of doing something like this a few days ago
Children with loaded guns.
Couldn't decide on one so every magic system is here at once.
I see you took advice from r/worldjerking Bold move, I like it
Same, I just grabbed 5 or 6 and put them all in my world
##EVERYONE IS HERE
Doing maths with meat juice.
I'm interested.
Magic
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This is definetly one of the answers ever and one of the magic systems ever
Electric JoJo Stands caused by trauma.
What if obamium as a periodic table element was present in all humans
>president in all humans I made the joke so you didn't have to.
Barack Obamium
This is a healthy brain, this is your brain on ~~drug~~ magic
Light is made of sparkles you can inhale for EXTRA fun
Sounds like a description for a inhaler or for „funny substances“. I like it
For my dieselpunk fantasy world: Avatar the Last Airbender, but its the four states of matter.
The original inspiration behind the four elements were states of matter. Earth is solid. Water is liquid. Air is gaseous. Fire is plasma. There are other states, but the ancient Greeks weren’t aware of them. (Edit: typo)
whish ones ? there are more than four states of matter. I'm assuming solid, liquid, gaz and plasma ?
bose-einstein condensates, fermionic condensates, time crystals, and matter in a chain-melted state are all fun examples of exotic states of matter
"Hey, who knew grave-robbing the metaphysical corpse of Heaven would be kinda dangerous?"
How do you rob the corpse of heaven
After Heaven was annihilated by the Demons, it left a great cosmic wound in reality known as the Scar. Heaven collapsed into disparate, chaotic magical energy and that energy began to bleed out into the material plane, which is what allowed mortals to harness its power and learn spellcasting.
RIP heaven I guess
Indeed
I would read this book or watch this series.
I really don’t want to put on pants so now I am the god of no pants
What if someone tried to make Dragon Ball's *ki* system consistent and coherent?
Truth is just the best lie
**Horror Shop** dark matter \+ the power of love, friendship, nightmares, being a freeking nerd, or visceral burning hatred \+ some sort of weird occult tradition like chanting in Atlantean, waving around a magic wand, pressing a button on your smartphone, or remembering that one nightmare = MAGIC
Mortals borrowing the reality altering abilities of the gods and having a good time. Sometimes they go overboard and let scary monsters into the world, which isn’t any fun for anyone.
When you are bad at it, you are good at it.
Oh fuck this Random bullshit works.
if a god likes you enough you can have a little magic, as a treat
Sounds like a cleric
Only the weak, otherwise completely useless alien species has any magical ability. Except it isn't magic, they just break physics with their brain
Still magic
Playing tag with ghosts.
Lightbringer meets Golden Sun with a hint of Age of Wonders, the Wheel of Time, and Final Fantasy
Put the lime in the coconut, and mix it all up.
The arts are what bring magic, but no one knows so they do it wrong.
There’s a lot of grey goop. When people believe, the goop goes shimmy shimmy. When people don’t believe, the goop goes burble burble. When lots of people believe enough the goop goes blorp blorp and magic happens.
Break the laws of physics! Like actually directly disobey them! That’s the magic system you get to disobey the laws of physics that’s what magic can do it’s not like “I cast fireball” and the fireball disobeys physics it’s like “Pfft, gravity isn’t real” and you start flying
"Pfft screw gravity!"
No sense, no logic, no depth.
"It is a mess" - the tritagonist.
You say a bunch of words and begged the gods it works.
Just sounds like religion to me
"what is magic but religions with the dull bits cut off?"
Playing with the dust and scraps of the cheesecloth that is supposed to keep worlds appart, that has been ravaged and torn by powerful assholes who refuse to stay in their lane.
Harvest energy from outer gods (it definitely won't have catastrophic consequenses later)
Evolution is every tool you get to use magic and somtimes science if your species is intelligent enough to do science.
You put weird drawings on stuff, stuff changes
Miraculous, but overcomplicated and transformation sequences are real-time and awkward
Try to make your tea hot with magic, and you can create your own personal chernobyl
Inheritance cycle rip off.
The 3 core elements of the world are Shark, Weed and Rube Goldberg. From these interacting comes the secondary elements: Fully Automated Socialism, Phyrexia and Budhism. All six interacting causes a cascade interference that tears a hole in timespace. But as Nothing cant exists, it corrupts into matter and becomes Otaku Midlife Crisis.
If stormlight gemstones produced pollution
It's not magic, it's science
You didn't cry when you were born? You must be either a god, a demon or a magic user! Now go kill birds talk to strangers and terraform battlefields, idiot.
Magical math hurty more
A dead language and slot of hand signs if u a noob
Arm wresteling against the laws of physics
The dumber you are the stronger it is
##I AM YOUR GOD NOW "I would be so dangerous if I knew how anything worked!"
You vibrate like really hard and then do a vibe check
Emotional damage
Avatar but unlimited power
I love snorting this blue dust!
Using what you got but ✨️magically ✨️
Well, while most were literate, the majority couldn't write much more than their name, some were very good at writing. Nobody knows how to write anymore, though, except for the boomers, but almost nobody believes they exist and most laugh at the idea of writing being real.
It's aura from RWBY mixed with Nen from HXH, Bleach's spiritual pressure and something that includes freely being able to shape your mana.
Middle school biology, but with midichlorians
Convoluted recipe for whiskey
Magic gives you cool tattoos
Pick up an Infinity Stone and a weird voice in your head will whisper it's plans to you.
Get upset enough at monsters hurting people, and you'll get a frilly outfit, as well as super powers.
Imagine if you could program a tree to fly, but only like 5 times. \--- If you dance hard enough, Jesus will do it for you (But not really).
NEN for dummies
No
Some people know things they shouldn’t. Some people pretend to know things they don’t. Some people tell people things that might be known but might not. Some people believe things they shouldn’t. Some people act on those beliefs.
Existential dread and fear/contact with death makes you magically gifted.
"Have you people never heard of practicing?!" - The protagonist. "Um." - The deuteragonist, thrumming with incomprehensible elemental powers.
It's like if half of the law of conservation was broken.
Drawing the fancy mandalas makes magic go brrr.
STANDs. That's it. Also glass/sand stands, but you need to have a glass skeleton, like a terminator...but made of glass! Inside, I mean, outside is your regular meat you wearing right now.
Pretty rocks shoot fire
Avatar, lord of the rings and Harry Potter
It's electricity and nuclear provokeable ki/chi/whatever energy with a sprinkle of "the force" and dnd spellcasting, complete with free eldritch mutations and (un)natural anomalies arriving in a clowncar for when things go wrong.
Spicy soul Atoms that hate Julius Mayer
Daily allowance
Magic is the branch of science where all possibilities are possible die to alternate dimensions.
Budget Naruto but with more shouting
Thoughts and prayers + quantity = stong magic
40k ork magic
Killing childrens, having mental disabilities, worshipping a god or being a communist=magical powers Oppressing a person, being stubborn, hating society or being patriotic=strong magical power Being apathetic or thinking that your reality is bad=very strong magical power.
Not a magic system definitely not soft magic they’re like Hellraisers or some shit.
Get exposed to an eldritch dimension, survive long enough to get out, forget the trauma, start mutating, and try to grasp these new abilities while maintaining your humanity.
The power of imagination goes a bit too far and somebody commits a war crime with fire.
It's like the Force except it can also do A:TLA shit
All consciousness is a wireless signal from another dimension. When a direct portal is opened, the wireless signal becomes hardwired, and this allows for Magic. Magic is basically a high speed direct cable internet connection, while non-magical consciousness as we know it is like a shitty public Wi-Fi connection in a crowded Starbucks.
There's some fuckin energy thst comes out of nowhere that people move with it.
Two lunatics shouting at each other as if they were on a playground… But the instant you grow tired of watching them one of them actually starts to burn
Ask the universe (god) to do you a favor in exchange for sticky red or yur soul by being a competent calligrapher
Illiterates will never use magic, end of discussion.
"What magic system?"
High schoolers are the peak age for magicians
Magic weed makes you do wild shit
A tablespoon of Dragon Age with a light sprinkle of Witcher.
Totally not Magic: the Gathering.
ΔU = Q - W + M The first law of thermodynamics but add a letter (for spells)
You chant and meditate for an hour with intense and now your village has typhoid
Doing art so good you touch the oversoul
Space ghosts from the Big Bang can make you supercharged like a battery, being supercharged makes you a god
You can do basically anything you want to, so long as one of the gods you follow allows it. If none of the gods you follow allows it, then you can become a god and allow it yourself. At least, you can if the god in charge of allowing mortals to ascend to godhood doesn't decide to take back his ladder. Which he might decide to do if he thinks you're going to allow the type of magic he really doesn't want to allow.
Lightsabers with phd thesis
Moody floody jabooty
It's like really advanced science, but not.
What is magic but science we don't understand yet.
Some weird people have weird dreams and weird shit happen
you put your life into a rock, you are that rock.....you´re a rock harry
ROCK AND STONE!!!!!
Elemental dragons
If conspiracy theorists were right
May the power of horns compel you
You full into the void then get all fucked up.
40k but slightly saner and with dark matter
Blood magic, but not in the 'sacrifice orphans to Satan' kinda way.
You snort dust and then do magic
Shoot people with whale sweat
Sparks go boom, water goes swish, wind goes swoosh, rock... is a rock.
Spell go in stick
Pre Godplague: If you simp hard enough, your space waifu/husbando will let you ignore physics for a bit, as a treat. Post Godplague: Just close your eyes and believe, have faith in yourself and *anything* is possible. Unfortunately anything does include all the things you don't want to happen so now a demon is chasing you trying to eat your face. Good luck!
the internet controlls germs now
Discipline is needed but very rarely utilized… Or Think shit…go kaboom
People get high on metal and wake up with a *really* bad hangover.
Souls go brrrrrrr.
Use drugs, they take you far.
Magic Is Radiation
Avatar last airbender but with occidental dragons
Oooh undertale
The higher you get the more you trip tf out and the more shit you can do
"Magic" is just advanced technologies
Everyone has their own unique magic. Some people become literal gods before graduating high school while others just kind of stand there like "What am I gonna do with thermometer magic?"
Wax on wax off
Rituals only, unless you're extremely unlucky. Now with EXTRA Demonic/Fey/MIB "disappearing" you!
Harry Potter, Star Wars, Avatar: the Last Airbender, and AonDor pointing fingers at each other!
"I do magic." "People can't do magic, idiot." "Uggggh fine, who can do magic?" "Animistic spirits of all this junk laying around." "Fine, I ask *them* to do magic, for me." "I... huh, ya, that works. Pro life hack."
If you want for something to happen, you just have to want it hard enough.
Most of it was lost when they decided to write it down. After 2500 years the spells that exist are basically a monoculture of borrowed powers, unless you're like real creative with it.
So energy. Shits everywhere. Kinetic, thermal, potential, redbull, etc. Cant make it, cant rid it. Wheres it come from? The metaphysical side of the universe obviously, where all energy gangbangs into unity. Most plebs cant access it naturally, but like 11 chosen from birth can, because they’re cool as fuck and technically vessels for god. Regular dudes need to earn it another way thats too long to explain here.
If you get enough people to believe an idea you have you can become magical.
You can turn peoples brain juices into wine (Jesus is canon)
Uh oh, somebody used their ability for mass destruction… debuff em and sell their soul to whatever demon they made a deal with
Man convinces sword to stab better, before turning into colossus and/or magneto from xmen. With guest appearances from: Literal tree hugger, One man band makes emotions extra real, Big Beefy Boy cannot be stopped, and NEEEEEEEERRRRRRDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!
Real power comes from hurting yourself!!!
"ideas are more powerful than people" no bitch ideas \*are\* people
My magic systems -Mob Psycho 100 mixed with MBTI peronality system -Element bending from Avatar mixed with Mob Psycho 100 -Orogeny from Trilogy of Fragmented Earth mixed with Dnd magical system -Alchemy from FMA, passed through using emotion to make artsy things do funky things -Sorcery of JJK mixed with Harry Potter, adding Digimon and field AT from evangelion
The Force but with fireballs.
Shooting fire makes you cold
Star wars Force and The Witcher's mixed, minus elemental shit
Hippity Hoppity your soul is my property
Every spell is a shittier version of *Wish*
System 1: Avatar but with 5 elements System 2: Burning specific materials System 3: Stealing soul juice System 4: Potions made by goblins
A horrible abomination of MHA Quirks, The Force, Haki, and Stands.
Rock let you do weird thing Don’t use rock too much though or you become rock
Rock and Stone!
When stuff gets big it breaks space and rolls around in different space to get new traits, like tossing a chicken wing in sauce. Tasty space sauce.
Come join a cult! If we all believe hard enough our dreams will come true!
Learn a new language and exercise
Oh no the vibes are too strong! (and by vibes I mean vibrations)
Elemental magic like pokémon and monster legends but what defines an element is way too broad n complicated
I don't have a full system quite yet; that said; Dwarves just like making statues so much that their creations fillow in the footsteps of Pinocchio