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• Dirk Bruere commented on Magic systems and my world building process
  The first line of the first part of the hypersigil, circa 2002: ""A beginning is a very delicate time." Frank Herbert" Full marks if you were obsessive enough to find it and work out what's happening. A clue - 13 years later it activated globally....
• Fletcher Christian commented on Magic systems and my world building process
  I may attract flames here, but I would like to mention another, modern myth; that of the Angel of Retribution known as the Basilisk in the Revelations of Roko. :)...
• Dirk Bruere commented on Magic systems and my world building process
  More, the Basilisk is doing well in current mythology and is hitching a ride on Black Sun / Saturnian occultism....
• RDSouth commented on Magic systems and my world building process
  That's what fantasy IS. It's about the comfort of a static world that has always been and always will be. Even the events of the story only serve to reinforce the joy of stasis. See? Great events happen, endless turmoil and strife, but the stability of the world remains. There may be a new emperor (preordained because he was the secret son of the true emperor), but magic still works the same way, and never land will always be there so much better because it is finite, happily ever after. Science fiction is the opposite, it is about a dynamic,...
• Matt commented on Magic systems and my world building process
  That's what fantasy IS. It's about the comfort of a static world that has always been and always will be. Even the events of the story only serve to reinforce the joy of stasis. See? Great events happen, endless turmoil and strife, but the stability of the world remains. There may be a new emperor (preordained because he was the secret son of the true emperor), but magic still works the same way, and never land will always be there so much better because it is finite, happily ever after. I think that's an overly narrow definition of fantasy. It's...