spell dancer, random idea (possibly spoilers)
Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2016 9:52 am
I am starting this thread because I am bored and I kept thinking about this story as I just read an Avatar comic.
So we know magic is in objects, dancing and tatoes. All very impressive carrying out the same magics but in different forms. The author said the dancing magic got inspired by the benders of avatar. So physical movement manipulating raw elements. I can also see nature and elemental spells from dungeon and dragons being used, especially the Druid/ranger magics.
There folks are nomads, so their magics would be aimed at this. They would have developed magic that allowed them to travel where ever they wished. We know they explored the oceans, and traveled the islands of the vast. That implies lots of water magics.
I bet they climbed to the tops of mountains and volcanoes. So they would have needed a way to deal with the heat and gases. I doubt they used magic to swim in lava, but possibly walk across it. They could also use magic to extract and shape raw materials from lave, the rocks, glass and gas it expelled. I think there is a tribe of people that lived near a volcano that has a dance to aid a volcano in erupting safely. I could see them doing that to ensure nice islands are kept intact, and new ones are formed well. I can see going to the summit of mountains would be huge challenge. I can se them creating ways of easy traversing. I bet cliff diving is athing here, so dfloating air magic could be seen.
While a water people, they were travelers so some would have explored the mainlands. They would have needed a way to get water. They traveled by foot, so they had to have some speedy earth movement.
A people like this I don't see them being held back by storms. I doubt they would mess with storms on a large scale. But they coul channel or direct it, away or to a location
This world seems very metal poor, so they worked in wood, bone and stone.
In a story I read once, it claimed that some ships seeded a few remote islands ,on their long shipping routes , with edible plants and small game. So that if they ever need to resupply in an emergency or find a place to anchor, they would have a place provisioned. Since this nomadic people are so close to nature, I wonder if they help freshly formed islands to become habitable. Normally it would be along process but with their magics they could speed it up.
These air ships we hear about, I wonder if any one here ever tried to make a submersible one.
A race so aware of the power of words and language would not go with out some way of recording knowledge. Their artifacts would be hoarded by the nobility, preserved by their allies like the sirens and trophies by their enemies like those guys with the tridents. The ones held by the nobility would be easy to track, the market would be pretty stable as very few new items would be turning up regularly. So hopefully we might see a magical oceans eleven kind of chapter. I bet there is an imperial collection where the best and unique items are help.
So we know magic is in objects, dancing and tatoes. All very impressive carrying out the same magics but in different forms. The author said the dancing magic got inspired by the benders of avatar. So physical movement manipulating raw elements. I can also see nature and elemental spells from dungeon and dragons being used, especially the Druid/ranger magics.
There folks are nomads, so their magics would be aimed at this. They would have developed magic that allowed them to travel where ever they wished. We know they explored the oceans, and traveled the islands of the vast. That implies lots of water magics.
I bet they climbed to the tops of mountains and volcanoes. So they would have needed a way to deal with the heat and gases. I doubt they used magic to swim in lava, but possibly walk across it. They could also use magic to extract and shape raw materials from lave, the rocks, glass and gas it expelled. I think there is a tribe of people that lived near a volcano that has a dance to aid a volcano in erupting safely. I could see them doing that to ensure nice islands are kept intact, and new ones are formed well. I can see going to the summit of mountains would be huge challenge. I can se them creating ways of easy traversing. I bet cliff diving is athing here, so dfloating air magic could be seen.
While a water people, they were travelers so some would have explored the mainlands. They would have needed a way to get water. They traveled by foot, so they had to have some speedy earth movement.
A people like this I don't see them being held back by storms. I doubt they would mess with storms on a large scale. But they coul channel or direct it, away or to a location
This world seems very metal poor, so they worked in wood, bone and stone.
In a story I read once, it claimed that some ships seeded a few remote islands ,on their long shipping routes , with edible plants and small game. So that if they ever need to resupply in an emergency or find a place to anchor, they would have a place provisioned. Since this nomadic people are so close to nature, I wonder if they help freshly formed islands to become habitable. Normally it would be along process but with their magics they could speed it up.
These air ships we hear about, I wonder if any one here ever tried to make a submersible one.
A race so aware of the power of words and language would not go with out some way of recording knowledge. Their artifacts would be hoarded by the nobility, preserved by their allies like the sirens and trophies by their enemies like those guys with the tridents. The ones held by the nobility would be easy to track, the market would be pretty stable as very few new items would be turning up regularly. So hopefully we might see a magical oceans eleven kind of chapter. I bet there is an imperial collection where the best and unique items are help.