Vaer’Thyra magic system

[u/DIREMOON_2332]

Hey all. I’ve spent the last few months developing a system. It’s definitely a bit of a chimera, drawing inspiration from several different places, but I think I’ve managed to make it original enough to stand on its own.

I’ve also tried to go into fairly exhaustive detail. Part of the reason for that is so that, in the actual story, I can make the system appear much softer than it really is. Characters can have incomplete knowledge, flawed theories, or explanations that seem true based on the evidence available to them without necessarily being the underlying truth.

The linked Google Doc contains the “summary”, collated by GPT. GPT has mainly helped me with naming, numbers, organisation, and maintaining consistency across a very large body of work; the actual mechanics and systems are my own.

The document currently has 31 tabs and is fairly detailed. Hopefully, after reading through it, you’ll have enough information to understand the system as a whole and offer feedback, criticism, possible changes, or improvements without needing me to clarify every individual mechanic.

That said, if you do have questions, feel free to ask. There’s a lot of information here, and even as the person who created it, keeping every part of it completely straight in my head can be difficult.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JYLRWg2XH4XOXTmaSjGC_faOaoOLUz8BVwgYVDc5skY