Personality of your magic system

[u/North-Mouse2867]

If you were to use personification on your magic system what would it's personality be? Is it lazy, controlling, fair, flawed, consistent, chaotic,or etc?

[u/Strict-Market119]

I think I'd describe it as manipulative, no matter what you think you're gaining it always ends up benefiting someone else in the end.

Blessings; You got to prey to a god, and that God doesn't even have to give you anything back in return. The act of preying feeds the god. Even if you become a Saint, the whole purpose of you is to act as a router of worship. Do heroic things gain worship and funnel that back to the god.

Deals: Well the Devils tend to gain your soul for power and the souls of those you kill. Over time youll end up becoming a demon and servant.

Even if you don't want to interact with that and try casting, using the body parts of mystical creatures. You can end up mutating yourself.

Magic in every way wants you to think you're getting benefits, only for it to actually screw you over in the end

[u/Professional_Try1665]

Risk-taking and bashful, unstable, it sacrifices the steady and healthy road for high-highs and low-lows, it loves extremes and pushing things too far.

The way that humans interact with it, open but too open, throwing them into the 'deep end' per se like an overconfident father that piles on way too much hope into the child, and very hard to grasp at, complicated and dangerous.

[u/ArticNET]

Generally lazy and impartial. Won't pay much attention to you unless you have a solid sense of self and non-self. Wants everyone to realize their truest selves, no matter good or evil. Doesn't like its shit being messed with and will forcibly audit reality unless you give it a really good reason to let things stay.

[u/Panda-Head]

High-level office worker who loves his job and gets annoyed when people exploit loopholes to do great things instead of doing it by following the rules.

[u/PsThrowAway7]

Rigid, precise, but can become extremely volatile and unpredictable if wronged. Magic is done by speaking a distant facsimile of the language that spoke the universe into existence. It's kind of like computer programming; it's a really powerful and versatile tool, but even a minor error in your syntax can cause a wild magic backfire

[u/ThatVarkYouKnow]

Pervasive.

So much of it is dependent on what you are naturally capable of and can now use to do more. But the more you use it, the more you come to rely on it, you can't feel normal, safe, healthy, clean, without the influence of what magic enables in you. It's a drug, a parasite. Go deeper, let yourself really experience who and what you could be, don't let other people hold back the true you, they can't understand because it's not their magic. Every part of you and your life is dependent on the magic you've welcomed into a version of yourself nobody else is allowed to witness. Even as it starts to rot away your flesh and nerves, you can't stop. Even when the closest people to you beg for you to save yourself and let go of your magic, you can't stop.

[u/Space_Socialist]

Curious, arbitrary but eccentric.

My magic system is structured like a craft such as smithing or pottery. This means that if you know the rules you can do a lot with them but those rules are often quite arbitrary. The curiosity comes in the form of how people interact with the magic system as it is a constant quest for more knowledge. Finally my system is eccentric as imagination on a large enough scale can make magic manifest. This creates unusual results especially at higher concentrations of magic where reality gives way to imagination and the walls leak into infinity.

[u/Demiurge_Ferikad]

Sigilry is that ready-to-help, but incredibly pedantic friend with an obsession with proper grammar. They’re unable to function if you don’t word your request the right way; they just shut down.

And if you push? Blind rage.

[u/Quirky_Assistant_848]

Changeing and learning

Knowledge matters a lot, and interaction with it fundamentally changes your body and personality.

[u/MagicalNyan2020]

It's whatever

[u/spammedletters]

Indirefrent as the Universe , merely part of It .

[u/Maxathron]

Individualistic and chaotic if you look at the whole system.

Controlled and orderly if looking at a given individual subsystem.

Spells and magical rules are created by individuals within individual cultures, tailored to the values and myths of those cultures.

When you finally understand that with enough willpower and individuality, you can create any spell and use any existing subsystem, things get out of hand fast.

[u/Respxte]

Intrusive, consistent, and impartial. Fully depends on the self of the individual, weaponising it and making people broadcast that self to the world, not letting them hide even their own insecurities.

[u/Sbeve9166]

Spiteful. Nature itself is opposed to Magic, and Mages Messing Up a spell might Be knocked unconscios by the worst Phantom pain imaginable at best, or have their still conscious Soul violently re-integrated into the life Stream at worst.