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>>>How do people in your world gain the ability to use magic?

My world is the real Earth in the 40th century. Between our current real world era and the 40th century far future there have been two global apocalypses and several regional apocalypses, plus numerous pandemics and epidemics, as well as three new World Wars, and a massive change to all governments. Basically no country in power in our real world current era, is still in existence in the 40th century- America is gone, Europe is gone, etc, the landmass is still there but the governments are gone and the cities, like NYC and Tokyo, are ruins buried under hundreds of feet of soil, with huge old growth forests growing over them.

In the story plot line era, a global ice age has hit the planet. This was caused by a comet hitting the moon. Comet dust and moon dust now obit Earth's atmosphere, creating a thick “dust cloud” that envelopes the Earth and blocks out the sun. With the world sunk into perpetual darkness the surface temperature dropped, and Earth became a planet buried in many feet of snow. This in turn caused most plants, animals, and human life to die shortly after the comet strike.

Survivors adapted to the harsh conditions.

And twenty thousand years is enough time that life evolved.

Magic is rare, but magic rose up as side effect of life evolving to adapt to the changes of Earth's environment.

No one knows exactly what magic is or exactly how it works or why. Most are terrified of magic and see it as a supernatural punishment not to be messed with. Because magic is so rare, the bulk of society does not believe it is real and believe anyone who claims to have encountered magic to be drunk or crazy.

The only thing people know for certain is that magic originated from the comet.

When the comet hit the moon, the comet itself exploded and shattered, raining down on the planet as clouds of silvery blue grey dust and shards of shimmering blue quartz like crystals.

Originally, anyone who touched the crystals, were themselves turned into blue crystal. Forests of blue crystal trees, shrubs, plants, and animals stand like cut crystal statues. Herds of blue crystal deer. Blue crystal cars, entire families still inside also now crystal, sit on blue crystal highways, surrounded by blue crystal grass. Jet planes crashed on the ground, fell from the sky after turning into blue crystal in mid flight.

So deadly and globally devastating was the Crystal Plague, that survivors lived in mortal terror of anything resembling blue crystal and most of the world's population shuns, bans, and forbids anyone from entering these crystallized regions, thus a lot of mystery and superstition rise up around the Glass Forests.

Centuries after the comet strike, The Glass Forests exist as “forbidden zones” and the only people who dare enter are criminals, bandits, gangsters, and outlaws who hide there, knowing that no moral decent person will risk entering The Glass Forests.

Quaraun aka The Pink Necromancer, and his Frost Lich husband, BoomFuzzy the Unicorn

And this in turn led to the rise of multiple things:

1. Elves: Humans who mutated to have long ears, long lives, and possess magic powers, as a side effect of living in The Glass Forest for enough generations to cause their evolution from contact with the blue crystal.
2. Faeries: Similar to Elves, they too are an evolution of Humans. Most people believe Elves to be a type of Faerie.
3. Demons: It is not known if they are Humans who evolved to have animal traits or if they are animals that evolved and became Humanoid. They come in a vast range of anthropomorphic varieties. Squid headed, cloven hooves, bird winged, butterfly winged, ram horns, fish fins, tails, cat ears… sometimes multiple animal types on a single person. Frog people, Bird people, Sheep people, Cat people, Merfolk, you name any animal, you can probably find at least one of these Furry, Scaly, humanoid versions around.

Elves, Faeries, and Demons, due to their being from the blue crystal regions, have a natural born ability to use magic, due their having had close contact with the blue crystals their whole lives.

An Elf

A Faerie

A Demon

The basic assumption is that the blue crystals have some sort of a “Godzilla style” radiation side effect, which is not actually magic and has an actual scientific explanation, but because it originated from an alien mineral off a comet, people don't have good working knowledge of what exactly the science behind it is, so it gets called “magic” and the people affected by it as classified as mages and sorcerers.

In theory anyone can pick up one of these blue crystals and use the crystal itself as a source of magic. However, results are minimal and chaotic, in the hands of someone who was never exposed to the Crystal Forests.

The longer one is exposed to the Crystal Forests, the more powerful one becomes, even without holding a blue crystal. The most powerful are the oldest of the Elves, Faeries, and Demons, the ones who are multiple thousands of years old and have been exposed to the blue crystals for dozens of centuries.

Crystal Skulls (the blue crystallized skulls of victims from the comet strike) are seen by some mages as “ultimate power sources” and many of the most powerful mages have vast collections of crystallized skulls, that they harvested off the bodies of victims.

Some mages grind the crystal into a powder and mix it with their food, add it to their drinks, smoke it in a hookah, or use it to make injectable drugs. A lot of mages are drug addicts.

As a general rule, anyone who uses magic is considered to be a ruthless, immoral, criminal.

Also prolonged exposure to the blue crystal material is known to cause insanity (mad cow like symptoms) and so Anyone who has been exposed to it long enough to use magic effectively, is also likely to be deeply mentally unstable as well.

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