#magic consequences

[thenalexica]

Different ways you see the high cost of magic in fantasy

Magic burns away memories Spells age caster dramatically Using power causes physical mutations Each spell shortens lifespan Magic leaves permanent scars/marks Losing ability to feel emotions Magic addiction/withdrawal Forgetting loved ones Growing detachment from humanity Hearing voices/whispers constantly Magical debt passes to descendants Power requires human sacrifice Magic corrupts surrounding nature Spells need rare/illegal components Using magic breaks reality's fabric

[killershark82]

More on magic consequences for fairytail because there weren’t enough:

The other thing about the scarring from rewriting e.n.d., is it possible to have both nerve damage as in not feeling anything anymore as well as chronic pain at the same time? Is that like medically possible?

Chronic pain would be worse for Lucy I think, also phantom pain spasms with changes in weather have got to be painful. It would also probably build up her tolerance to pain and she wouldn’t react to things like a normal person would and people would freak out.

But with nerve damage she wouldn’t feel a thing. And the original effects affected the entire right side of her body, so she would be completely numb on her right side.

I don’t want to give her limited mobility because of that tho. Because then she wouldn’t be able to to much anymore battlewise.

I would make her completely or mostly deaf on her right side, and her right eye would have reduced vision damage as well.

Thoughts?