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Creating Magic Systems | How do people in your world gain the ability to use magic? | Advice & Tips For Writers | How I Write My Series

If you have followed my website for any length of time, you are by now aware that I like using Reddit to get my article ideas. I search reddit for questions and then I answer them, here, though not often on Reddit. While I post answers here on my website daily, often 3 or more a day, I only post answers on Reddit once, maybe twice, a week, if that often. I dislike the toxic vibes of Reddit comment sections and so avoid dealing with them, by writing up very long comments and then NOT posting the comment on Reddit, but rather instead posting it here for you. my readers, because I know you guys are not toxic. And so, that is what this page is, yet again, today. I have found a question on reddit and I am going to answer it here instead of answering it o Reddit. Enjoy!



By Wendy C Allen

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Creating Magic Systems | How do people in your world gain the ability to use magic? | Advice & Tips For Writers | How I Write My Series


QSQuaraunPinkHeartsscreenshot.pngQuaraun the Insane aka The Pink Necromancer
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Creating Magic Systems | How do people in your world gain the ability to use magic? | Advice & Tips For Writers | How I Write My Series





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


>>>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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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I am putting pictures of Quaraun here, because, why not? I like pictures of Quaraun nd these pictures are here for no other reason.

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If you are looking for my posts on Reddit, I have two Reddit accounts:

u/EelKat

u/SacredPinkJellyFish

But, I hardly ever post on Reddit at all, so, not much to see on either of them.

I'm also here:



By EelKat Wendy C Allen

Author, Artist, Art Car Designer, Voodoo Priestess, and Hoodoo Rootworker

Author of Cozy & Gothic Fantasy, Sweet/Fluffy M/M Furry Romance, Cosmic Horror, Space Opera, & Literary SoL genres. I write Elves, Fae, Unicorns, & Demons.

Because there is such a HUGE problem of people making fake "eelkat" accounts impersonating me, here are the links to my ACTUAL accounts:

| Amazon AC1 | Amazon AC2 | FB Profile | FB Page | FB Short Story Writers Group | Google Business | Google Developers | GumRoad | Instagram | Itch.io | LinkedIn | Myspace | NexusMods | Pinterest | Reddit 1 | Reddit 2 | Spoonflower | Steam | TikTok | Tumblr | Twitch | Twitter | YouTube | Zazzle | Google+ |

If you find an account online claiming to be me, that is NOT one of these profiles linked above, there is a 99.99% chance it is a FAKE account impersonating me and only a .001% chance it's actually me and I just forgot to link it here.

Also, I do not have or use email, so don't trust ANY emails you receive claiming to be me. Likewise I DO NOT make videos about my family, Etiole, my car, or Stephen King, so ALL videos you find of such nature are fake as well. Likewise I do not run fundraisers, request donations, or have any involvement in any such things, so beware of ANYTHING using my name to request money from you, because I simply DO NOT do that.

These fake emails, fake accounts, and fake videos all claiming to be me are an increasingly big problem since the pandemic, and are being made by scammers who have zero affiliation with me and are illegally using my naame for their scumbag dealings.

Do NOT trust ANYONE in any way contacting you claiming to be me because I DO NOT contact people AT ALL!




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So, I was over on Reddit, you like I often am, and found this question. And answered it, like I do. However, the answer I initially gave was a simple generic answer. If you want to read my original answer unaltered, simply click on Reddit's embed feature links which Reddit provides for webmasters to be able to post their answers on their websites, while linking back to the original thread on Reddit (if you didn't know Reddit offered and encouraged the use of this feature, look for it in the "share" features underneath every post, comment, and reply on Reddit).

I am answering random questions today about writing, self-publishing, character creation, and world building, over on Reddit and decided to take my answers from there and expand upon them even further over here. So that's what this page is. Me rambling on about various aspects of world building techniques I use when writing the Quaraun series. The questions I am answering are embedded here. Clicking the link in the embedded question will take you to the original Reddit page where you can see the original answer along with other people's answers. If you wish to comment, you can do so on the Reddit page where a place to do so is provided.

In any case, as with all of my Reddit answers found on my site here, my original post on Reddit is much shorter then the article here.







What Is This Site?

I'm an author. This is an author home page. It's about me, my life, my books, my hobbies, my home town, and anything else that applies to me and my life. 

Since starting my writing career in 1978, I have written 130+ novels, 2,000+ short stories, 6,000+ non-fiction articles (ALL are found on this site), a few dozen stage plays, 12,000+ blog posts, and a few comic book scripts for Disney's Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck (I only worked for Disney one year (in 2005) and only wrote a few stories for their Danish comic books).

NOTE: I ONLY write the Quaraun series (aka The Twighlight Manor series aka The Adventures of Quaraun the Insane). In recent years there has been an issue with impersonators trying to pass books off as written by me, notably several non-fiction and Erotica books. I write neither nonfiction nor Erotica.

ALL of my books and their cover arts are listed on my website here. Beware of any books you find claiming to be me. If the books are NOT listed here on my website, they are NOT my books.

In fiction works, I specialize in Weird/Bizarro Tales set in 40th century CyberPunk-Quasi Medieval, Cozy Dark Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds featuring an intersex Elf and his Faerie husband main characters.  I DO NOT WRITE ANY OTHER SERIES - THIS SERIES IS THE ONLY ONE I WRITE.

Non-fiction (found ONLY here on my site) is daily updates of events in my life, and how-tos on how I write my novels.

I DO NOT write Erotica.

I DO NOT write books with HUMAN characters.

The Erotica books and books with Human characters, that you are finding, are written by scammers trying to impersonate me.

There is an ongoing FBI investigation into this matter. If you find any such books, please report them to FBI Agengt Andy Drewer @207–774–9322

The FBI believes the people behind the impersonation accounts showing up, are relatives of the woman who murdered my son.




 | Index |



How did you build your audience?
Not online, that's for sure.
aka How to sell ten million books
aka How I sold ten million books.



The Park Bench Method of Writing

(just the article)

or

The Park Bench Method of Writing

(with the list of 10k writing prompts - takes a LONG TIME to load - SEVERAL MINUTES!)



Why I am not proud of Disability Pride Month.
In fact, I think it’s deplorable and downright offensive.



Crazy Woman Just Attacked - No Clue Why or Who She Is

(August 14, 2025)







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