CaptainManbeard

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

I've got it. Using the faceclaim I posted last night, I'm going to roll up a Fire primary character who's invests a lot into learning cosmic magic, as a sort of astrologer. I'm thinking big AoE wizard type, covering the battlefield with burning motes of starlight arranged in constellation patterns, obscuring smokey nebulas, and other sun/star/space magic.

@Light

That sounds awesome, but some of that you may want to save for later after she progresses more. Since she's starting out as a freshman, I don't think the Professors would enjoy her throwing down motes of starlight everywhere which may flood the school with solar radiation if not done properly XD XD XD. How much of that were you wanting her to have right at the beginning of the RP? I'm fine with her having had some very basic training in Cosmic Magic from a mentor or relative, but as an eighteen year old who is only just starting her formal academic college education, I don't want her to be too overpowered compared to the other students.

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

So, for anyone wondering how to fit in your ideas from the original system to this new one, I'll translate the arts below:

Universal Magic now covers effects previously labeled under Cerebromancy.
Air Magic now covers effects previously labeled under Aeromancy, Electromancy, and Hydromancy (moisture droplets in the air/humidity).
Earth Magic now covers effects previously labeled under Geomancy and Ecomancy.
Fire Magic now covers effects previously labeled under Pyromancy.
Water Magic now covers effects previously labeled under Cryomancy and Hydromancy (larger quantities of water than used in Air Magic).
Infernal Magic now covers effects previously labeled under Necromancy, Hemomancy, and Osteomancy.
Cosmic Magic now covers effects previously labeled under Chronomancy and Psychomancy.

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With this new system, we'll say some Magi learn basic Universal Magic from a young age, which covers any effects not tied to one of the four Elemental Planes, the Infernal Abyss, or the Cosmic Void. This can also cover minor healing abilities for mild surface injuries, cuts, bruises, burns, etc. Kind of like the magical equivalent of having an at-home first aid kit. For greater healing, people usually rely on Alchemy, which includes potions, herbology, and transmutation. Using that, they can brew healing elixirs and transmute damaged flesh back into healthy flesh. This would technically also fall under Universal Magic.

That being said, healing effects can also occur from using more advanced elemental affinities:

Air Magic can generate a healing water vapor that is inhaled and boost's one's own natural regenerative process.
Earth Magic can generate a healing bioluminescent light on the caster's palms that draws out or mimics the properties found within herbs used for regenerative potions.
Fire Magic can generate a healing flame that momentarily melts injured flesh and then restores it to a healthy state. However, this can be horribly painful if not done properly, so it's not often done outside a controlled medical setting or emergency situations.
Water Magic can generate a temporary liquid cast around an injured body part, drawing out the natural healing properties of the water and directing it to the wounded flesh.

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

I’m behind on the Marvel TV shows. I’ve only finished Wandavision. I’ve seen all the movies.

I’ll have to think about that one. 🤔

@Crimson Flame

If you decide to have your character come from a race of shape-shifting elves, part of their society could be that everyone is treated as gender neutral when they're born until they get older and decide what gender identity best fits them (male, female, non-binary, genderfluid, etc).

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I can’t imagine why an elf would have that as a racial trait though.

@Crimson Flame

Or another option is to have a specific type of elf race that has powers like Mystique.

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I can’t imagine why an elf would have that as a racial trait though.

@Crimson Flame

Just gonna leave this here XD XD XD

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I’m thinking for my Jedi wizard, her ability to cast magic will be based on a number of different mediums. For spell 1 she uses a magic stick, for spell 2 she writes a rune down, for spell 3 she does some somatic Naruto hand sign bullshit, etc. the reason for that is because she’s self taught/homeschooled. She just learned whatever worked for her.

Bit of a mixed bag when it comes to what she used as a focus, but her fancy wizard stick is generally what she’s accustomed to the most since she’s trained with it for years.

@Blizz

Hmm... Her hand signs could be one of the runic systems for the Arcane Tongue, kind of like a magical version of sign language. In written form, it could look something like Kanji, with different slashes and curves matching the formation of the hands and fingers. That would actually allow her to use magic that maybe she isn't able to write down, like: "Crap, I forgot my notebook!" and she uses hand signs to shape out the runes instead.

That being said, I've been thinking about the individual spells, and I'm wondering if it would be easier for storyflow to just lump similar effects together. For instance, instead of having stuff like Fireball, Burning Hands, Fire Blast, etc. as separate spells, maybe have those together like Firebending in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Manipulating existing Fire/Air/Water/Earth or converting Mana into those elements could be done at will, kind of like how powers work in X-Men, but through a Conduit. And then the more complex stuff could be where written spells in the Arcane Tongue come into play.

So, if you have a magic stick, you wouldn't necessarily need to have a specific spell attached to it, you could just use it to fling out Force Pushes at will or something. That was fall under Universal Magic, and if you choose Air Magic as your elemental affinity, you could jump and flip around like an airbender and also use lightning with your staff, kinda like this:



And you could also have Arcane Tongue runes tattooed on her arm or wrists to fire Force Pushes out of her hands like:

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If you need help setting a server up let me know, I’m pretty good with it

@Blizz

I should be good, but thanks for the offer! I've set up a few servers in the past, so as long as the process hasn't changed drastically in the last six months or so, I should be fine XD. And since it's just a small group, I'm not worried about coding any chatbots or anything.

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Yeah, I’m probably going to use the Universal magic route.

@Crimson Flame

Okay, cool! Though, you'd still be attuned to one of the four elements, so feel free to toy around with that. And for the appearance altering part, you could always have that as a racial trait, similar to a Changeling or a Skrull.

Shit, I totally forgot about that option before. Racial abilities not tied to magic. So, as long as it's not too overpowered, everyone can feel free to add racial traits to their characters, such as wings, darkvision, heightened senses, form-shifting (such as lycanthropes), etc.

Qrowdell Academy (magical school RP)

That system sounds interesting. I’m fine with that, as long as I can keep my character ideas lol.

Also, now that we’ve got a bunch of people interested in this, do you think we should get everyone into a discord server? Might be easier to talk back and forth between each other that way

@Blizz

I haven't logged in to Discord in a while, need to figure out my log-in credentials, lol. But yeah, once I do that and have a server ready for us, I'll send a group PM with the invite, though I won't be super active in the chat myself until I have everything for the IC, intro post, and character sheet template written up.

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Hmm, so if I wanted to keep the casting illusions and telekinesis, what plane would I go with?

@Crimson Flame

Telekinesis would be covered by Universal Magic, and you could flavor some of the elements to cast illusions, such as using water vapor/moisture in the air to reshape the flow of light through the atmosphere around you, kind of like casting a rainbow. Or you could use air itself to reshape the light. Or you could have that covered by Universal Magic as well by using mild telepathy similar to the original idea for Cerebromancy.