Learning from the Best Magic Systems Out There

How to create your own Magic System

Magic is straight up awesome and many people have managed to convey that feeling. I hope to learn from them and share to you anything I have deemed useful. World building is such a wonderful activity And i'm prepared for the long road ahead to bring my world to life.

Thanks For Watching

Software used: Krita


CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
04:19 Part 2
09:56 Key points
10:20 My Magic
12:20 Outro and Thanks

Shows Mentioned:
Harry Potter
FullMetal Alchemist
Lord of the Rings
Frieren BJE
Star Wars

#fantasy #Krita #lart #Worldbuilding

[Unknownagon]

Eragon has an interesting magic system i really like. The main magic system uses knowledge as a power as the magic is just a language where every thing you say is true and what happens depends on your imagination, everything costs energy and if u use a spell witch you don't have enough energy for you just straight up die as the spell can't be stopped midway through and will just drain all the energy you have.

[real-zenithas]

You can't just stop with a mythology; exploring the ecological history of magic on a world will bring new understanding of the world as you develop it. It's *very* time consuming, however, but really worthwhile.

[burghleyimeanberdly]

I'd argue that Light wasn't changed all that much by the Death Note, but was just given the ability to enact his desires. I mean he's screaming "I am a god" by the end of episode 2

[Terror-qkhp]

Stormlight archive’s magic system is elite imo and very good to look at

[diddydanger]

I love worldbuilding, and magic systems are a thing I spent a LOT of time on.
I like these worldbuilding videos. Gives inspiration and help on understanding some stuff.
Eager to see the next one !

[Applux_Lumen]

Something interesting I thought about, is how the mage’s style of using magic effects how the magic turns out. A example of this is how people use magic to make traps. This also brought me to magic circles, which made me try to make a circle for different people with each circle being used by different species to suit their needs.

Just something interesting I thought of a while back

[verificadordeplaylist]

Nen (HxH) is the best magic system for me, perfect internal logic and manifestation of the psychology of the characters

[haoruixu]

7:01: "emphasis on the book part" cracked me up

[nobody]

My favourite magic system is from a ttrpg called Mage the Awakening, there are 10 different arcana (fate, time, mind, space, matter, death, forces, prime, life and spirit) and depending on your mastery of these you can cast spells with various levels of power (players are encoureged to make up their own spells and the storyteller (dm) interprets the rules to decide of they posses sufficient mastery). At a full mastery of an arcanum, a mage can create and destroy phenomena related to it for instance.

There is also a dimension of anti-reality, called the Abyss, parts of which can get into our reality if a mage messes up.

[fathe]

There's a magic system that's always been on my mind, the one of Mahouka Koko No Rettosei or translated; The Irregular at Magic High School.

the magic system there its just- Fascinating to me, the way it- Just makes sense, every single spell has a fundation on actual physics and interactions you can understand. How it sets its limits on understandable rules such as physics, chemestry and how it kind of redefines the concept of magic to fit the setting, "mana" its not just some mysterious energy that its everywhere, its explained and even delved on, throwing the normal concept of "mana" and even deleting the name completely (Psions and Pushions), but still retaining the escence of the word even if separated into two.

The way that magic connects with the world, politics, war, evolution of it and the sheer deepth of it all. Love that magic system honestly.

[godbroccoli]

I like the idea of magic being linked to a person's mind, willpower, and desire.
The mind shapes the magic into what you want it to be; imagining the magic you want to cast more vividly and thoroughly results in the magic actually doing what you intend it to as well improving the spell's "fuel efficiency"
Your willpower determines how much fuel you provide to your spell to get its job done, in the case of simply imagining a possible spell but not wanting to cast anything, you of course provide no fuel
And your desire determines how fast you cram the fuel into the magic you're casting, leading to faster casting times and possibly erratic behavior of spells if too fast

Example 1: You want to get up from the couch and grab food from the fridge
1. You imagine pushing yourself up from the couch, standing up, and walking from your current room all the way into the kitchen, navigating to the fridge, opening said fridge, and grabbing a cold slice of leftover pizza (clear imagination of spell)
2. You decide you're going to follow up on your plan and get up, you are determined to do this. (strong willpower)
3. You're really, really, REALLY hungry
Result: You practically leap from the couch to the ground, get in a sprinter pose start dashing towards the kitchen. Despite all your enthusiasm, you accidentally trip over yourself halfway through your current room in your haste. After your fall to the ground you literally bounce back up and continue your sprint while screaming "I FUCKING LOVE COLD PIZZA", bumping into walls and doorways as you navigate through your house at breakneck speeds. Within seconds you arrive at your fridge, rip its heavy metal door open, and proceed to fiercely grip a cold pizza from the lower left shelf and cram it into your gullet.

Example 2: Same scenario
1. You imagine looking for a bite to eat in the fridge (bad imagination of spell)
2. You decide you might as well get food, nothing better to do anyways (meh willpower)
3. You aren't really that hungry (meh desire)
Result: You slowly get up from the couch, start walking towards the kitchen before getting distracted by a heads up penny on the ground. "Oooh, lucky penny", you say while picking the penny up, immediately forgetting what you got up to do. You then proceed to aimlessly walk around your house for a while before you finally remember, "ah, the fridge" and successfully walk over to open it. You browse and mull over your options for a bit before deciding cold pizza suits your current mood best and slowly nibble at it as you focus on other, more pressing matters; like binge watching ATLA for the 17th time.

[terrazaeleh]

The classification of magic sistems into hard and soft had a lasting wound in the type of magic system I made, glad to see the breaking of it^^

The fact that magic systems can impact the personalities of the wielder wasn't something I thought of before, so that was an eye-opener too!

Great video as always^^

[zephels]

ATLA does such a perfect job of worldbuilding each individual society around the respective bending accessible to them, sub-bending styles are always really interesting how much they can range from extremes like metalbending which was thought to be impossible to minor things like sand benders in the desert

[iseeyounoobs]

I never really understood the concepts of magic in the Fate anime series, but I love the spectacle of it all. I think Kiritsugu Emiya is the coolest one. He uses the opponent's magic against them. So even though he is a mediocre mage, he uses unorthodox methods to kill that mages aren't equipped to deal with.
I also really like the magic in The Irregular at Magic High School. I think it is a cool concept of magic being refined down to programming and you have different factions of modern and traditional magic. There's even room for lost magic in a system like that.

[zhade]

My favourite magic system is in the chinese fantasy series Lord of mysteries, I could go on forever in all the ways it’s just awesome but I’ll keep it short.

You drink potion, you gain that potions power, there are 20 something different starter potions that all gives different powers, each starter potions have their own progression tree where you start as a sequence 9 all the way up to 0.

To be able to get the next potion you need to act in accordance to said potions “intent/powers/will” for example if you start with the Seer potion you need to act as a Seer, that can be very abstract or literal.

You can’t transition between potion lines so the first potion is very important. Ingredients are also a factor for progression.

Then there are all the underlying things like gods/churches/cults, the potions and the magical world as a whole is hidden from the average person because the world is set in a lovecraftian cathulu horror world where knowledge is actively dangerous.

Drinking a potion symbolises abandoning the mundane and becoming a part of the horror, a “beyonder” (someone who’s drunk a potion) fights a life long battle with madness and becomes horrifying monsters should they lose control and this gets way WAY worse the further you progress, which correlates nicely with the stronger you are the more you suffer the risk of going completely mad.

Whoops this got long, uhhh LoM is a long web serial that I personally love but it isn’t for everyone, especially those who like it more faster paced.

[acrab]

A magic system that inspired me was the magic system from Monster Garden's Rust and Trenches. I liked the idea of magic usage altering your body and having a price.

[armtehcannon]

My favorite hard magic system will probably always be Mistborn’s system. 16 types of metals, and each one lets you do something different.

One pushes on metals equal to your weight. If that metal pushes on something greater than your weight, you get pushed instead. Another pulls metals. One dulls emotions while another incites them. One metal lets you see into the future while another that past. One slows time while another speeds it up.

[TheGoldenPhoenix-nmqe]

I like the idea that Magic is a living entity. You can't control it without it fighting back, but you can't let it run wild either.

[cesarbenitez]

The magic system the series of the witcher shows is one of my favorites, for the fact that you see the effects of the casted magic and not a casting circle or a frase but yet understand what the spell does. Also the touch of an ancient powerful magic known only by a few is something i always appreciate

[GaleGrim]

I've always liked a magic system where you have have to improve yourself in order to safely use it. Not "Get better at magic" but improve who YOU are by resolving dissonance between what you believe and what is true. Magic that needs YOU to be a better more grounded/enlightened person to use it to a positive effect.

It's a sub division of "Magic is controlled by emotion/will" that has always fascinated me.