I created a magic system

Hey welcome back to the monster Garden I created a magic system I’ve always liked the idea of interesting magic systems that have weird effects and ways of casting drawing runes ingredients to cast spells strange side effects all are cool things you can have in your magic system but

There’s one main goal that I had with the magic system I was creating which was the ability to visually differentiate Mages from normal people in some magic systems if you strip a normal person and a magic user of their gear and clothing you wouldn’t really be

Able to tell which one can cast Magic and as a visual artist I wanted there to be a way to differentiate them so the first idea was to make the use of magic cause changes in the user’s body we later called this metamorphosis which is what this page being drawn is about

Common symptoms include lengthening of Limbs growing additional body parts like ribs fingers and an organ called a tari the tari is strange casting magic and expending Mana causes this r-like substance to build up in your body and if you cast spells too frequently it could clog up your veins and kill you

The tarai forms slowly next to the kidneys and filters out this tar from the blood a young mage’s tari is small and can’t filter toward that fast causing it to build up faster older Mages have a larger tari that’s better at filtering tar and makes them be able to cast spells more frequently

Without worrying about dying but there are also unique cases that have more extreme symptoms like the rat catcher’s skin flanking off or a fire Mage having smoke blowing out of their face and others which we might cover in the future so this already does a great deal of differentiating Mages from normal people

As you can literally see them towering over most people also these changes don’t happen instantly they happen gradually over the years so you can tell how long someone has been practicing Magic by how malformed they are another thing is the implants the body is not naturally able

To take in mana and has to be augmented inputs which are these things are implanted into the skin and the funnels that attach to them amplify the intake of Mana the inputs as well are designed this way because I decided that Mana would be attracted by different shapes repeating patterns and spiraling shapes

Work the best here are some references for things that would attract Mana which I can now use in any design to signal that it might have an association to Magic same with the outputs which in this case are of the Thimbles on the fingers their shape greatly affects how

Spells come out of them long pointed outputs would pinpoint the spell concentrating its effect and focusing on distance while broader shapes cast spells in a wider but shorter cone angle now with this knowledge you can gain a bit of insight into what kind of magic a

Mage casts by looking at the shape of their equipment acceleration Mages have long rifle like stabs that allow their projectile spells to punch through most fortifications and healing Mages have larger Shield shaped discs to slowly disperse healing around a wounded area if for example they used an output that

Is shaped too aggressively it might cause tumors to form technically you could kill someone if you healed them too aggressively anyway all of this is so that when I draw stuff associated with magic and mages I have a clear shape language I can play off of to show that it’s magical

A building that is built to attract Mana will now have a distinct look that differentiates it from all the other buildings and not just because it looks good but because the magic system demands it to be that shape to be effective of course as the world develops I might

Change things about the magic system but I’m hoping that these root design principles I’ve made for the magic will stay consistent now let’s change the topic to what recently happened the channel blew up in subscriber count I knew it was going to reach this point eventually but I did

Not expect it to be this sudden I had 200 subscribers or so before the dwarf video and it’s jumped to 13 000 in three days obviously this is amazing and I am incredibly happy about it but also stressed because I used to make sure I read every comment on videos

And posts I make I did that with the dwarf video at first too when it started gaining traction it had about 700 comments which I all read in the span of about two hours I know I don’t read that fast but only a few hours after that it had 300 comments

And then 600 comments even the videos I made before that gained a bunch of comments as well I couldn’t keep track and it feels wrong to skip over miss or not read them I like every comment that I read and if you don’t see my like on your comment

I’m sorry I will just have to accept that I will miss some comments but I will try my best to read as many as I can any of you have any advice on how to deal with this kind of situation please do tell me either way I am incredibly

Thankful for the overwhelming amount of support I’m getting thank you to each and every one of you I will make sure it is earned by making the best videos and content I can I hope you enjoy the video and see you in the next one