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Mystian Magic--Elemental

Hi! Worked on some worldbuilding stuff for Mystia, specifically its magic system. Worked on elemental magic this time. I think I have like 12 different types of magic in total.

Definition

The practice of manipulating fire, water, earth, air, and mania.

Sources

Earth, Fire, Water, Air

The source of magic is where ever land matter, fire, water, and air reside

Mania

Mania usually exists inside the self, but there some exceptions. Mania is everywhere in Mystia, similar to air/oxygen

Affinity

Earth wishes to be seen for what it does, how it supports, and how strong it is. Those who value reliability, strength, and growth may be drawn to earth magic.

Water wishes for connection, to gracefully flow, and to be interpreted. Those who value grace, perception, and mindfulness may be drawn to water magic.

Wind wishes to be free, to push, and be felt. Those who value adventure, flexibility, and freedom may be drawn to water magic.

Fire wishes to be understood, respected, and directed. Those who value control, consciousness, and righteousness may be drawn to fire magic.

Mania wishes to do as it pleases, to express itself, and to live. Those who value spontaneousness, knowledge, and change may be drawn to mania.

Specialization

Those who specialize in earth magic may become: Terra instructors, agriculturists, horticulturists, environmental scientists, geologists, terraformers, construction workers, and other related fields.

Those who specialize in water magic may become: Aquair instructors, fishers, mariners, marine biologists, hydrologists, plumbers, aquaculturists, divers, and other related fields.

Those who specialize in fire magic may become: Pyra instructors, waste collectors, fire enforcers, blacksmiths, welders, chefs, conservationlists, fuel managers, and other related fields.

Those who specialize in wind magic may become: Zypher instructors, pilots, weather analysists, aerial constructors, storm chasers, flight instructors, atmospheric scientists, weather broadcasters, and other related fields.

Those who specialize in studying mania may become: Mania professors, alchemists, scientists, anti-magic analysts, inventors, field researchers, chemists, energy conservationists, and other related fields.

Learning Elemental Magic

Earth

People who go on to study elemental magic with a focus on Earth are put into the terra subgroup. Terra mages, like most students, are given a basic wand and the source material, dirt. Improving one's earth magic comes with gaining control over the sensations of the different textures of the earth, building their spiritual connection, and experimenting with their magic style.

Beginner terras have to utilize the earth that they see, and have little to no spiritual connection to it. They have to master control over grains of dirt before moving on.

Advanced terras are able to use the land where ever it is, have a stronger spiritual connection, and can use more land, like rocks, mud, sand, and clay.

Proficient terras can summon earth at any time, with any amount, possess a high spiritual connection and intuition, and control all the land that there is.

Water

Those who study water magic are called aquairs. To start their practice, aquairs are also given wands, and about a handful of water. Similar to terras, to improve, they have to gain control over the sensations of the different textures of water, building their spiritual connection, and experimenting with their magic style.

Beginner aquairs have to utilize the water that they see, and have little to no spiritual connection to it. They have to master control over drops of water before moving on.

Advanced aquairs are able to use water where ever it is, have a stronger spiritual connection, and can use more types of water sources, like oceans, lakes, streams, rivers, puddles, and so on.

Proficient aquairs can summon water at any time, with any amount, possess a high spiritual connection and intuition, and control all the water that there is.

Fire

Those who study fire are put into the pyra category. Unlike aquairs and terras, beginner pyras are to just use their hands (or wings... or paws...) and a small, dying out fire. To improve, pyras have to learn how to tame fire, understand it, get it to grow across their hands, smother it into quietness, and experiment with their magic style.

Beginner pyras have to utilize the fire that they see, and have little to no understanding of it. They have to master control over dying fires before moving on.

Advanced pyras are able to use fire where ever it is, have a stronger understanding, and can manipulate a little of its heat and who and what it affects.

Proficient pyras can summon fire at any time, with any intensity, possess a high understanding , and control all the fire that there is.

Wind

Students who study wind are called zyphers. Just like pyras, zyphers aren't given a wand. Instead, they're taken to an enclosed area and are given a small jar of wind to release and to coax back inside the jar. To improve, zyphers have to learn how to feel the wind, work with it, and decide which magic style fits them best.

Beginner zyphers can only use the wind that's already blowing, and have no true cooperation or sense for it. They have to master working with bottled wind before moving on.

Advanced zyphers are able to use wind where ever it is, are able to work better with wind, and can lead it to do some of the things that they request.

Proficient zyphers can summon wind at any time, with any intensity, with a high amount of cooperation, nearly becoming one with the wind.

Mania

Students that study mania are called mages. Mages are their own category, as instead of practicing things that are the result of magic, they study an wield the core of magic itself: mania. Instead of being given a wand, mages are handed a microscope and a part of something in their natural world: a leaf, food, blanket, and other items. To improve, mages have to identify and label magic, figure out how magic works at its core, and how to wield it.

Beginner mages can only identify and see a few mania particles outside of a microscope, and aren't attuned to it. They have to memorize mania's patterns and movements before continuing.

Advanced mages can identify ley lines, manifest mania, and can sense magic and it's various types.

Proficient mages are able to see mania, ley lines, and identify magic within minutes, also being able to wield magic enough to transfuse it into a variety of items and transform it into physical forms.

Consequences

Magic requires energy to sustain itself, and depending on the type of magic, physical, mental, or emotional energy will be used in order to perform magic. When someone performs magic after this energy is depleted, it goes for the next sustainable thing: the practicer's physical body. As the user does magic, their mania eats them from the inside out. This manifests in different ways, however. A water user's body would drip until there's nothing but a puddle; an earth user's body will crumble to stone; a wind user will flake off into nothing; a fire user will burn into ashes. A similar pattern goes for using all types of magic.

Casting

Elemental magic is popularly cast through mental strength and fortitude, as well as spiritual connection. However, it can be cast through all magic forms. I used Metos as a base for this, then I copied it into Ellipsus. Here's the link

Not sure which type I'll work on next as I'm currently writing some elaborate character backstory. Let me know what you think!

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How does magic work in this universe?

Good question! Gives me a good chance to get some details together all in one place about this.

My main goal was having different kinds of magic for different species, so there are a few different systems. The main idea is that the world where Pick-n-Mix Comix specifically is set, the 2112th Rhapsody, is comprised of a physical top-side half, the Protocosm, which contains the interstellar Chasm of Stars, and a spiritual bottom-side half, Ectotheria, which contains the Other Realms.

Ectotheria was once inhabited mostly by ectoplasmic "divine spirits" which evolved into what are known in the 1980s as angels and demons, while the Protocosm originally had no such creatures; however, both worlds are overlaid by flows of cosmic ley-line energy known to the elves as ley lines and to dragons as the Wayveins. Wayvein energy is what elves draw on as a natural source of energy for their magic, because they don't have the same spirits which humans in Ectotheria evolved with so it's harder for them to affect things the way humans and those with those spirits do; additionally, Wayvein energy is like acid to dragons, whom elves harvest scale oil from which boosts their ability to do reality-altering stuff the way dragons do, so Wayveins are useful as a weapon against dragons by the elves. Then they use Wayvein energy as a fuel source to get scale oil doing what they want, if they want it to.

Ectotherian spirits are renowned for being envious of the Protocosmic reality and constantly try to pull bits of physical space through the boundary of the Coin, the Ward, into Ectotheria, which resulted in the development of the original Magelands region, inhabited by species descended from those created in the Protocosm. Humans were among them, and because of that and their association with the inherently spiritual-based magic of Ectotheria, humans in Ectotheria evolved with something called the mentian gland, which essentially metaphysically locks ectoplasmic energy into their bodies and creates a spirit for them — a soul, distinct from the divine spirits — which can affect the world using natural spiritual telekinesis and hypersensitivity to spirit-based magical affairs.

So, most Ectotherian humans have powers similar to ghosts, psychics, and telekinetics, and that sort of thing. Different practices of magic include witchcraft, galdorcraft (practiced by the Frithanic people in Fritherland), sorcery, alchemy, fortune-telling, soothsaying, and so on, and (as of the 1980s) you generally need to be a licensed practitioner, which is a really important part of most stories, but all practices more or less draw on either spiritual or ley-line energy or use magical artifacts like scale oil, lucidite crystals, soul gems, or things like the Quill of Lore or the Constantin Cube.

Psychics can pick up on latent emotional and psychic energy and pick up on dreamwaves and thoughtwaves and sometimes detect energy from the future or cast spells like Lineage to determine similar wavelengths from the past history of an object or place. Also, sometimes they talk to ghosts and use spirit boards, although that's really more of a fortune-teller and spiritualist thing.

Witches generally use a wide variety of self-care rituals and charm bracelets, which are like mini-spells for random boons which can be cast any time. Also, they use wands, which aren't as common in sorcery or psionic practices.

Wizards are just those who dedicate to the study of as many different types of knowledge and practices as possible. They rarely practice everything, but they have a knowledge of potentially how to if they need to, making them adaptable and innovative all the time.

Sorcerers are those who treat their magic like a science and often use it to specialize in further areas, like the transmutational or dimensional sciences and the specific physical manipulations of spiritual energy. It's a lot more delicate and usually taught in schools alongside other scientific topics given the propensity of its practice in Inglenook, making it a basic knowledge factor. Less common in the Other Realms outside of Inglenook though.

Magicians and illusionists usually use light-based illusions and glamour magic from various different systems for entertainment purposes, trickery, and stage magic that's a little bit genuinely magical anyway, like Azurov the Amazing and his villainous former partner Salvador the Sane.

Warlocks are those who break their Practice Oaths. When you get licensed for whatever brand of magic you'll be practicing, at least in the modern day, you have to take a practice-appropriate Oath of one type or another; I haven't really written any of them, but in theory, there are Oaths for sorcerers, witches, wizards, and psychics at the very least, and maybe one like a generic Magical Oath for anyone just interested in magic. They're all intended as ways of ensuring your dedication to the legal practice of your magic, so the world doesn't enter the Dark Age of occultism and demonology again; if you break your Oath, you're guilty of magical malpractice (being the reason my current novel in that regard is based around warlocks and called the Magical Malpractice series) and branded a warlock, considered a criminal, and can be charged for it if you're arrested, with most warlocks ending up in either Quagmire or Lychgate Prison for it.

"Evil" practitioners who aren't warlocks are usually occultists or demonologists, who consort specifically with the Ectotherian divine spirits, who can obviously change the make-up of the Other Realms completely more or less on single whims, and most of whom are demons rather than angels by the 1980s OE.

Additional magic systems appearing in the universe outside of the spirit/ley-line systems:

Fairies and Fae-touched beings alter reality similar to scale oil, but scale oil mutates and shifts while Fae magic alters things and changes things transformatively. When the dragon Eirimë dies, her rotting scale oil transformed a swamp into a mutant, corrupting version of itself; when Fae magic gets involved, horses become unicorns, horses ridden by humans become centaurs, goat farmers and deer hunters become satyrs, and bears become duocorns. So things change into more of what they are, rather than less. Faemore also encompasses the Protocosm in some ways and has a way of leaking through the Ward in a way most of Ectotheria does not, so some of those creatures exist in the Protocosm in especially strange locations.

Rusidrans, a species of imp from the planet Rusidra in the Chasm of Stars, have a bio-connection to a material on their planet called argosium. I don't know how it works but they can control it as though it's liquid despite it being as solid as concrete and black like obsidian. They use it to create brutalist cities for themselves and get involved with other cultures to sell their architecture, as well as using it for spaceships from time to time.

Most dwarves, imps, goblins, kobolds, gremlins, and merrows are some variation of human sub-species (with humans, elves, ogres, and nymphs being the original two, fairies and pixies being from Faemore, dwarves and imps being the male- and female-based offspring of a human and an elf intermingling, merrows being the offspring of a human and nymph intermingling, and goblins, kobolds, and gremlins being the various results of human and either troll or ogre), so their magic is somewhere in between there since most of them have the same type of soul as humans although theirs are usually not human souls explicitly. Goblins are addicted to a magical lightning called emeraldine, which they often get tattooed into themselves, and I think gremlins prefer technological developments based on ripping off elven scale oil-based tech (which also inspired the tech in the steampunk pirate-ish world of Hesper in the realm known as the Infinite Ocean), while dwarves differ based on where they are. Most Fritherlanders are dwarves and they use galdorcraft (galdorkraft in Frithanic) a form of spirit-based magic similar to modern witchcraft, but since the Frithanics were in the land that became Inglenook before the Ingles were, it functions a little differently and is mostly based on specific words of power and the use of Dragorean runes known as Mezhon for spells.

Most Fae magic can be highly gimmick-based as well. Most fairies specialize in a specific area: the Necromancer is a death fairy, Jack Frost is an ice fairy, Heartstroke is a love fairy, and I don't remember what Ligeia is. However, they have their own elements. Any creatures directly of Faemore tend to be gimmick-based, and Fae-touched individuals can be as well, such as the Black Stag functioning as a way to offset the unicorns and lure people toward the Grim Grove, the Old Shuck being territorial over Grimstead, Mister Snowbell being a flurry-starter, and the Frost Lords keeping the weather in the Frozen World permanently frigid so they can survive there.

Finally, the plasmic forces. All 13 forces were derived from Ectotherian ectoplasm being sent across the Other Realms and the Chasm of Stars to infect reality according to the plasma's source, although not every plasma does its job well. This one is a wholly expansive system on top of the spirit-based magic system (which you could argue is an exploration of a similar "plasmic infection" using spiritual ectoplasm as its base), so I'll have to do an entirely separate post on the full details, but each force is usually a different color and infects the blood so that the user is either connected to a hivemind or can create plasmic constructs like lightning or sentient creatures connected to their own hivemind with it. Plasmic forces empower a huge number of characters in the 2112th Rhapsody, including Fleetfoot, Big Blue, the Man Behind, Graphique, Emerald Flash, Mr Limelight, the Blue Haze, the Stellar Meridians, and the Redblades, so it's a backbone of a lot of the more superhero-based characters typically.

A further finale, the Sunbearer legacy. It lets Solar Girl use pyroplasm, the fire plasm, to access powers based on gravity manipulation and nuclear fusion themed after the sun, but that's a full-on superpower at that point, and it's derived from plasmic forces (which also empower many fire elementalists anyway), so I'm not sure it's fully relevant under the purview of how magic works in this universe. 😆