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As it stands, the U.S. court system is barred from hearing cases that are not based in some factual question and the person petitioning the court can be potentially harmed by the law in question (stan …

It's Been Done With the Iroquois The Iroquois Confederacy was a matrilineal society (inheritance was passed down from the mother's side of the family) and women had a large sway in political society. …

So in my works that use magic, magic functions similar to how you're describing... all kinds of systems are functional and there are few hard rules to it. … It's been my experience that magic functions in one of two ways: Magic is Physics/Math... it has lots of rules and procedures developed over years of explortation. …

Guns on magic armor... Um... I'd lean to guns, only because Plate Armor wasn't meant for bullet stopping. …

I recommend you look up the Marvel Comic's character of Butterball, who has this power with this immunity. He was overweight most of his life and when his powers manifested, it prevented him from eve …

This works well with a "nature" magic as nature is beautiful and can provide lots of useful plants that can be used as healing elements... but nature is cruel and plants can also be poisonous... and sometimes …

Related to @Secespitus' answer, I did something similar. I had a similar scenario (though less divine and more just two alien races in war so old, no one knows why they are fighting) where they are …

Every human is capable of performing magic and in fact all of them do... we just don't consider physics and science to be magic... when in fact everyone knows they work because it's proven. … Gravity is science and magic. Because we know it works that way. …

TVTropes article Useful Notes Tarot contains a list of what each Tarot card means and the thematic nature of each card including both major and minor arcana (and the gag card "The Happy Squirrel", int …

There's also the Firefly solution where they implemented archaic swear words (Gorram subs for God Damn and Ruttin' subs for the F-bomb). You could also use inappropriate words that your culture would …

You couldn't "Flash Freeze" at the temperatures you're talking about, in fact, at 30 degrees F, you might not even turn water into Ice (the specific heat of water is insanely high. This means that th …

I would recommend looking into the Swiss Confederacy government system which is pretty much what you described in your question. The "President of the Swiss Confederacy" is a first among equals title …

Star Trek has a few stories along this line. There is the The original series (TOS) story that was paralleling the Vietnam war with Kirk standing in for America and the Klingons were the Soviet Union …

Warfare isn't won by battle, but by logistics. First, you have the common goal of four mamailian (assuming the Merfolk are standard Little Mermaid fish flippers for feet type and avians are angelic). …

So in Western lore and heraldry, a Dragon has a definite shape and has six limbs (four legs and two wings). A wyvern is a dragon with four limbs (two wings, two hind legs). This can sometimes be cal …