#fantasy magic
CW: Blood
You know how fairies and other similar creatures are like super allergic to iron?
Well I was thinking about blood and how that has iron in it, and like I’d imagine the concentration isn’t enough to cause any noticeable harm.
But what if some people had a much higher concentrations of iron in their blood, that’d probably render them immune to most of the tricks fairies try to pull.
They’d also always have access to a material that they could use to defeat them.
CW: Weapons, Blades, Knives
I think combining swords and wands into the same objects could be a fun idea.
Perhaps the sword portion could have two blades built around a wand core which is left exposed in the middle
Or maybe it could be more knife-like having the wand built into the spine of the blade.
Also, these combination weapons should be called either swands or swans because it is funny
Here’s Idea that’s like a spin off of part of the idea in this post
CW: Weapons
In this one I talked about using crystals and other magical artefacts to power up and energize melee weapons, well why not have some variants of those objects passively absorb power from there surroundings letting them recharge themselves to be used again.
And they don’t have to just be used on weapons, they could also be used in staffs to amp up spells, or in armour to give it an extra magical defense.
I think it’d be interesting for someone to have magical control over vibrations.
This is because there’s a lotta potential different things that you could do with that power, seeing as lots of stuff is technically just vibrations, such as sound, light, heat, states of matter, radio signals, earthquakes, etc
One thing I thought of could be blasting someone with vibrations that disrupt the liquid in their inner ears causing them to lose balance and fall over.
I like it when spells are hard to describe and very powerful in a confusing way.
For example, one that I’ve just thought of causes an area of effect that just totally scrambles where everyone is and what situations they are currently in.
There are a few ways it could accomplish this.
Maybe it could alter the very flow of time in such a way that all the people affected end up in different areas, while still retaining memories of that original timeline.
It could also just make those affected partially immaterial causing them to only just about exist for a period of time before eventually and suddenly popping back into full reality somewhere.
Or perhaps it merely causes people sorta black-out and operates on autopilot for a bit before some shock re-awakens them in other places and situations with no knowledge of how they got there.
As a result of my brain not totally working correctly sometimes when I see shadows or light on the edge of things in the corner of my vision I mistake them for little creepy crawly creatures darting about the place.
So anyway what if there was a spell that inflicted that on people but worse.
Like a spell that makes any movement or small details not in a person’s central vision set off the “Eep a small creature” response, massively hindering their ability to do anything.
CW: Violence, Knives
I think an interesting superstition for kitchen knives could be that if one is ever used to commit a violent act it gains a taste for violence or even bloodshed and is cursed forever, meaning you should throw it away.
And you know maybe it is just a superstition, just a way to make people less likely to fight while in a kitchen, or to waste the sharpness of their knives on people instead of food.
Or perhaps, as it is a fantasy setting this superstition could be true.
Maybe not totally true mind you, but if a knife was wielded with a certain type of malicious intent and used to harm repeatedly, then perhaps it could gain a malevolent sort of energy that it is more than willing to transfer to whoever is holding it.
I think a fun ability you could give a character would be a mean glance, that like actively debuffs and limits the person that they’re giving glance too. Perhaps it could just be because their glare is so intense, or perhaps there could be a little something else.
Maybe an odd cursed eye? Maybe the glare merely activates a spell? Maybe it’s some other sort of ability activating while the glare is merely a distraction?
Then again maybe it truly was just a glance, and any effects felt were conjured up by the mind rather than magic.
I feel like “Space” and “The Cosmos” are sort of two different but connected things with very different tones and styles.
Like when I hear space I think of solar systems, meteors, planets, and moons, that sorta stuff. You know the sorta space stuff on a “smaller” more comprheisble scale.
Meanwhile, when I hear cosmic, I think about black holes, galaxies, Interstellar clouds, and the like massive voids of emptiness between everything. Aka the stuff that’s on a comparatively bigger less comprehensible scale.
So maybe factor that in if you’re ever thinking about aligning a character, or organisation, or place with space stuff.
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