#ruchi

[dailydoseofspore]

resubmitting my boy Ruchi lol . i promise he was originally an early creature i just don't have the png anymore

"that looks awesome" - @penelope918

"BIG LIZARD BOY! I love it! It's like a dinosaur but uh...also a crocodile and also a murderous beast and also adorable!" - @doggysruler

(i added the pictures from the first submission for context)

[theminiartblog]

The Gangs All Here! The Magical Girl Gang that is~!

[xx-akubara-xx]

Some art I did for a 200 Follower giveaway!

[aoki553]

Extra Story of Psychics Vol.2 Ch.4 Spoiler (???)

Go read the Saiki novels I'm begging you.

[lobotomycas]

saying "you cant spell subtext without sex" and not "you cant spell subtext without buttsex" in fanfiction was homophobic

finally someone said it 🙄

[askrusschil]

Me imagino a la vaca burlándose de Chile por tener más atención que él XD

Ksksk

Chile se aburrió de kalinka.

F por ella(?)

[dove-actually]

Knight Errant Worldbuilding (III)

Previous worldbuilding posts    Setting     Religion

Several weeks ago, @bebewrites​ asked for a post on magic in KE. While magic doesn’t play a huge role in the plot, here are some irrelevant basic details ;)

Who has magic & How does it work?

People are either born with magic, or not. For those (few) who have it, it manifests around early childhood.

Magic is rare: about one in ten thousand people are born with it

Magic is (seemingly) random: no one knows why some people are born with magic and some aren’t. Well I know, but. Folks assume genetics, ancestry, birth time, geography etc might play a role, but no theories have panned out, so everyone assumes magic is random. Suckers

Those who have it must train it—as with all skills, the more they practice, the stronger they get. Some may have more magic reserves—same way as some people have a faster metabolism or better liver function—which might give them a slight advantage over others with similar training, but generally, it’s training that differentiates magic users. Those with more training achieve more spectacular feats of magic.

read on for types of magic, types of magic users, and fun plot-relevant bits!

Types of magic

Every magic user is only capable of one kind of magic. So, someone who can talk to animals can’t also manipulate fire or become invisible. A magic healer can’t shape-shift. A shape-shifter can’t control weather. Etc.—everyone’s got their specific magical skill.

There are myriad ways an individual’s magic can manifest, but they’re formally classified into three categories: nature-related (magic linked to elements present in nature, such as fire, water, weather, rocks, plants etc.), mind-related  (telepathy, truth-telling, future-telling etc.), and matter-related (telekinesis, healing etc.). Kids get tested for each category, and if they test positive for one, The Magic Experts must figure out their specific magic within that category.

There’s endless discourse about which magic is “better” and “stronger”, and everyone has Opinions, but the magic experts agree that it’s the user’s skill and training level that makes the difference in power. But you better believe dumb kids with magic will organize illegal matches to see who’s better. Kids, man.  

Types of Magic Users

After a magic-capable child has trained a few years, they can take a test to become a magicker, e.g. a person certified to safely use and control their magic. Some ninety percent of magic users are magickers.

Magickers can use their magic in its pure form (e.g. a healer magicker can heal people), but they can’t work it into spells (e.g. the same healer magicker can’t put a protective healing spell on someone going into battle, or make a magic amulet to heal the wearer).

A magicker who wishes to delve deeper into the secrets of magic can undergo further training (usually a few more years), and take a series of harder tests to become a mage. Few magic users go on to do this, because it’s hard and takes a lot of time and dedication. what no this isn’t a metaphor for a PhD pshhht i’m not traumatized you’re traumatized

Mages can do everything magickers can, AND they can weave their magic into spells, or create magical objects. E.g. a healer mage could not only heal someone, but also lay that protective spell to heal the person even if they’re not there.

Obviously mages are v respected and feared b/c they can do A Lot of Sh*t

Finally, a mage who decides to dedicate their life to the study, teaching & guardianship of magic can undergo even more academia metaphors training & tests, and become [plot-irrelevant-yet-spoilerish-title]. These are the Magic Experts, summoned when Bad Sh*t is going down, who work as a failsafe/ supervisory body to make sure no one is abusing magic on a world-endangering scale

They also test kids for magic & make sure everyone who has it has resources to train safely; outside of this, they sit on their Magic Island and aren’t plot-relevant until unless someone unleashes the magical apocalypse

Someone who is magic-capable, but has (purposefully) refused to train and take the tests and oaths to become a magicker—or who has broken said oaths by using magic to intimidate or harm others—is called a rogue. 

Rogue magickers are rare. Rogue mages are virtually unheard of. 

Each land has their own system for dealing with potential rogue magickers, usually some form of ‘send some v competent people after them’. The Knight Corps plays this role, in Scania.

What Can Magic Do?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ anything non-magic can do (healing, building, agriculture, stone/metal craftsmanship etc.), only faster and fancier. Also a few things non-magic can’t do, such as shape-shifting, mind-reading, future-reading etc.

The applications depend to some extent on the user’s type of magic (a shape-shifter can’t throw fireballs), but the better trained the user, the more things they can accomplish with control and imagination, so there are few hard limits.

Those hard limits are: bringing back the dead, rewriting reality, teleporting matter, and time-travel. Yes these are very specific and there is A Reason

Magic can also do one plot-relevant thing! I.e. summon murder-birbs evil undead-y monsters who torment people, generate chaos, and are used to cast The Very Nastiest of Curses

Obvs this is neither an ideal nor an approved use of magic. 

definitely not Sarra-approved 

not saying this is what the High Prelate is trying to do, but.

it is

Fun Plot-Relevant Details

Ruchi is a rogue magicker 

Ahni is a mage yup you better believe my functional unicorn has SKILLZ

Someone else in the book has magic and it’s not Sarra a spoiler

Sarra had a v useful magic object but she uhm, misplaced it

Sarra may or may not have two Secret Friends w/ magic

[yessu]

Fancy new ✨Master Post✨ of my OC playlists!! I’ll update this as I make more!! 

Also the ones that weren’t originally made for 8tracks won’t have titles (at least not for a long time lmao) and some of the old ones I still need to refurbish a bit so I’m not sharin em yet, like Zephy’s and Allan’s. And some new kids are being shaped by music so they’ve got tunes while old ones don’t! We’ll see how things go! These are working with a minimum of 3-4 songs so newer ones won’t be super fleshed out yet.

Shadowplay (Moreke)

Cold like the Desert at Night (Colin)(this one is almost entirely just Vibes, has little to no lyrical tie to him)

Of Wishes and Stars (Ruchi/Aldea)

A Cosmic Lullaby (Ruchi)

Punchline (Marco) (alcohol tw)

D I S T O R T I O N (Beta, GW2 oc) (this is Just video game music)

Hell to Pay (Genevieve, DND oc)

Momo’s B-Sides

Marco’s B-Sides (alcohol tw)

Maddox (tag)

Charlie (tag)

Kushiel (tag)

Ichabod (tag)