Timeline for How would you explain magic with eclectic connections between effects, colors and inter-magic interactions?
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| Jun 14, 2020 at 17:08 | history | edited | Malady | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarify "duplication".
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| Jun 14, 2020 at 17:02 | history | edited | Malady | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Better use of the word "magic".
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| Jun 14, 2020 at 16:51 | history | protected | L.Dutch♦ | ||
| Dec 30, 2015 at 22:43 | comment | added | Jonathan | Ice/water/healing could be the same color because they are all similar and related to the point that they are different aspects of a single 'type' of magic, whereas black, pink and white/silver are all different enough to justify being their own Types of magic, rather than fitting into a more broad category. Water, Fire, Earth and Wind are fairly broad categories, which is a large part of why they remain a popular trope to this day, since they are broad categories, those four could encompass a number of related qualities, which would have the same color association as a result. | |
| Dec 29, 2015 at 14:12 | comment | added | Malady | @Jonathan - Uhh... I guess it's up to you? But yeah, now I see that the colors could just be due to magic fields from the crystals, reacting with the brain, or some gland in the brain, to produce colors, instead of the colors being a physical component of magic crystals! But, then how do the colors grant the varied effects per color? Blue as Ice and Water and Healing could be because living things are mostly water... | |
| Dec 29, 2015 at 13:26 | comment | added | Jonathan | Do ALL people see the same colors for the same elements? Will I see air/lightning as green even if I associate those more with blue or yellow? How would someone without sight perceive magic crystals? | |
| Dec 7, 2015 at 20:00 | history | edited | Malady | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Grammar
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| Dec 7, 2015 at 18:16 | history | edited | Malady | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Generalizing...
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| Dec 7, 2015 at 5:59 | answer | added | Henry Taylor | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 6, 2015 at 0:48 | vote | accept | Malady | ||
| Nov 30, 2015 at 19:11 | answer | added | jose_castro_arnaud | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 18:22 | answer | added | dsollen | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 4:31 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | So one challenge I do see is the blue combination effect. Blue combination is poison or paralysis, while the colors on their own are purple-poison and light-yellow-paralysis. That's odd enough of a pattern that you might be able to start from trying to make it work, and then let the rest flow. If you start elsewhere, it may be hard to make that effect make sense. | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 3:28 | answer | added | Jonathan | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 2:37 | comment | added | Malady | @CortAmmon - Oh... I just want some way to tie it all together so I don't pull powers from nowhere, possibly with a general framework to guess at what color does what so I can use problem-solving magic, refer to Sanderson's First Law "Sanderson’s First Law of Magics: An author’s ability to solve conflict with magic is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to how well the reader understands said magic."... Yeah, you're right, I should call it something less scientific... But what? I don't know... If you've got an idea, could you edit it in? | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 2:04 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | How hard of magic do you need it to be? Grand Unifying Theory sounds like some very hard magic with powerful predictive abilities, but you may not need that for your fan fiction. Can you identify a set of cases where you plan to use magic and just build enough of a GUT to support those? That'd open the door for a softer magic that has room to grow rather than having the chew through the entire system in one big bite. | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 0:06 | comment | added | Malady | @type_outcast - Chantelise. | |
| Nov 30, 2015 at 0:05 | history | edited | Malady | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Intendeded for Chantelise Fanfiction...
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| Nov 29, 2015 at 22:50 | comment | added | type_outcast | @Malandy fan fiction? For what original work of fiction? That would no doubt help people answer the question. Coming up with a single theory (preferably there'd only be one reasonable explanation, or it wouldn't be a very good theory) to unify more than a dozen different arbitrarily-colored categories will be difficult without some additional source material. | |
| Nov 29, 2015 at 22:48 | history | edited | Malady | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Attack Power into Strength fits source better.
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| Nov 29, 2015 at 22:45 | comment | added | Malady | @CortAmmon - Well, this is for a fanfiction, so I'm trying to get an explain to fit with what I've got to work with, instead of changing it... | |
| Nov 29, 2015 at 21:12 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | Adding a Grand Unifying Theory to a set of magical color schemes without having planned for the GUT from the beginning can be much harder than allowing the GUT to slightly massage the colors. Have you considered letting the colors shift meaning while you develop your theory? Also, GUTs usually feel a lot more poignant if they are developed with respect to the world, rather than being done in isolation. The ideas should be those that a mage in the book could have come up with. | |
| Nov 29, 2015 at 21:00 | history | asked | Malady | CC BY-SA 3.0 |