[ SECRET POST #6232 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6232 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Depends how prevalent magic is, but I agree.

My thoughts always come down to inventions. If magic is ubiquitous, things like ... lighters wouldn't have been invented. Matches, even. Why would they?

I'm okay with it being only slightly different if it's present in the world, but only learned by a minority, whether it's because of blood or natural talent (HP/SoM), opportunity/secrecy (RoL), money (TNOTW) or whatever, but it would still probably change the face of invention unless it was extremely uncommon.

[(Anonymous)]

I've had a half-formed idea for a few years now, where magic is openly known, but only for maybe 200 years or so, and there was a Hidden World setup for a time. Lately I've been thinking things changed around the Age of Revolution and or Exploration, with various young mages deciding this New World means new rules, and are no longer hiding what they can do.

I suspect this would require A Lot of research into history, since obviously there's gonna be some alternate history going on. Still fun to think about.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. There was a fantasy webcomic I once read that had a race of winged humanoids and their buildings had no stairs. They also liked to build in high places like treetops, making traversing their cities uncomfortable for other races. I'd like to see more of that kind of stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

This secret is so pretty.

[(Anonymous)]

I can think of some older works that did this. Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos and The Lord Darcy stories come to mind.

[(Anonymous)]

But then you get something like Piers Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality series, which is...not great.

Also, when it's that ubiquitous, is it actually magic?

[meadowphoenix]

i both want that and i don't because i know i'd subconsciously try to pick it apart. it's much easier to ignore the lack of thought in some consequences when i know the author wasn't really trying.

[(Anonymous)]

Yup, my brain just can't stop trying to work how society would change. How cities would change. For example if you have so many different magical races living together why your city is all human-sized?
But the problem that magic changes so many aspects you just can't consider them all