real magic
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REAL MAGIC BOOK!
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Video Information And that’s when i jumped into the recycling bin and i met frank leader of boxland he’s a box anthony this is crazy even for you he’s back you know it’s really weird that all of your packages get delivered through the window no what’s weird is that i didn’t order anything There’s a set of rules inside one whoever holds the contents of this book will be its owner two write anything you desire and it will happen uh three when this book changes ownership all previous wishes will be undone anything You want will happen this… Read More -
Magic Systems that wish they were Science — Worldbuilding Ideas
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Video Information Cold Open Last year I came across one of the most interesting and bizarre interpretations of “magic” I’ve ever seen in a work of fiction. The book Perdido Street Station by China Mieville is… weird. Exceptionally weird. Cities built around the corpses of impossibly-large monsters, beetle-headed Women in deep romantic relationships with humans, god-like trans-dimensional spider-artistes that go around playing with the “weave” of reality… that kind of weird. And the magic is no exception. Just… not for the reasons you might expect. Instead of the traditional “wizardry” or “sorcery” Or “witchcraft”, what they practice in the… Read More