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Soleverse: The Basics of Magic

Magic is everywhere in the Soleverse. There are twenty colors of magic, and every color is paired off with an opposing color in what is called the conflict system. Every pair of opposing colors contains one order-aligned color and one chaos-aligned color.

With the order-aligned colors first, the pairs are:

Maroon (Order) versus Grey (Chaos)

White (Light) versus Purple (Darkness)

Yellow (Creation) versus Cyan (Destruction)

Bronze (Time) versus Black (Space)

Blue (Water) versus Red (Fire)

Lime (Earth) versus Pink (Air)

Indigo (Death) versus Emerald (Life)

Orange (Thought) versus Lavender (Emotion)

Teal (Despair) versus Magenta (Hope)

Silver (Balance) versus Gold (Power)

The inhabitants of the Soleverse, known as solelinks, each have the potential to wield the magic of one of these twenty colors. The color that they are connected to is known as their soul color.

Solelinks have pure liquid magic in their blood called silverium. Their silverium will be the same color as their soul color. In order to use magic (with some exceptions), they must bleed to release the magic from their veins. This makes frequent magic use quite dangerous. Not only that, but the more powerful the spell, the more blood they have to lose to cast it!

Since there are twenty colors of magic, some of them may look similar, especially to those with color blindness. Tristain Novak, the in-universe master alchemist and grandfather to the protagonist Alex Novak, created a series of symbols to use in the place of the colors, as shown below*:

Pay attention to the Alt text to get some info on the symbols!

* Note that black is used as a background for the lighter colors and white is used for the backgrounds of darker colors for visibility reasons only, I have alternative versions of these images that will be posted as time goes on

More information on the magic and world of the Soleverse will be posted to this blog as time goes on, so stay tuned! I'd love to make more detailed posts on each of the magic colors and conflicts.

A fun fact; this is the final version of the magic system. The only thing that stayed standard between every version of Soleverse was that there are twenty colors of magic. The attributes have changed multiple times, and the original system of magic this story used was completely unrecognizable compared to this one.

In the original draft, every color had three attributes rather than one, and they were all on a convoluted chart that had to be consulted every time we wrote magic! This was called the scale system. The conflict system streamlined everything and makes a lot more sense.