Adventures in Magic Theory - Language of the Spirit World

Hello. C J here. I finally have Quantum done enough to show. Dear All, that took a while. I’ve updated the Quantum page here with new stuff detailing my plans for it for the next few years. This is and will remain my main project and now that the core rules are done I can actually get something done with it. By that I mean I can get back to writing spells. Real life spells. The summoning spell I mentioned yesterday isn’t the only one I have or even the only category I have but I needed the core rules done to explain how they work enough to share them.

First up on the list of projects is the spirit world themed expansion Roads to the Spirit World. This one is strongly based on the real life mysticism of Ancient India, the ancient Asian world and a number of indigenous cultures the world over. The spirit world exists in most mythologies as the dwelling place of the gods and their spiritual servants. For most is isn’t a heaven or the heaven but is a natural part of the living world as an extension the world’s life force and consciousness.

Whatever this spiritual realm is it responds to intent and language, giving me the perfect opportunity to discuss storytelling and writing as a subject matter. I want nouns, verbs and adjectives to be the spells and to do different things from one another. Spirits are living concepts and their lives are shaped by the stories they act out. I want some powerful legendary cards with spells about grammar and genre conventions for various writing styles. Here’s a sample spell I’m working on. I have no idea what it does so try it at your own risk.

Regal

I cast a spell to gain purple and penetrating.

End of Spell

The spell is a magical depiction of the adjective regal in its formal meaning. Okay, so there are like what a billion words I could use here. I’m going to have to make cards for a lot of them. Words as spells is a normal magic concept in fiction as well as the occult. I might be taking that idea a bit far. Cool. The art for these spells will be a while away but I can work on the text parts now. I need to do a lot more setup for the project before I can draw the card art. Once that’s done I’ll just make cards.

C J Mcpherson

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