In the survival game Outward, you have to preform rituals beforehand crafting and offering items, and building shrines to use your spells. You must offer your health to increase your mana pool, making strong magic users physically frail by nature.
My favorite bit of ritual magic from a book is the slaying of Aslan and the breaking of the stone table in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. In a movie, it's probably the crafting the Minoton in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger.
Cosmic vending machines are great, and, as far as I know, are the closest ritual of the "magic" we have in real cultures. And it also raise very interesting questions. For example, maybe it CAN be used by anyone, but very few have the guts to actually do so, either for ethic, religious or pragmatic reasons.
In the setting I'm working on, I have a type of what you call cosmic vending machine ritual magic. It exists because the use of sorcery ("true" magic) slowly breaks down the laws of physics and causality itself over the centuries, and so as time passes more rituals get "unlocked" as sorcery causes ever more glitches in the world. It is a very literal type of magic, there is no act of will (the universe can't read your mind) or channeling of power, there are no chants or runes (the universe isn't listening either and it can't read), only ingredients and actions. To affect a specific target, you need a sympathetic link (as in Kingkiller Chronicles) to direct the energy of the ritual. The effect is always external, things like direct depositing of knowledge into your head is not possible (because the caster isn't an innate part of the ritual, and can't be required for the effects). Of course, there could be a ritual that grants a vision to the target, and you could make yourself the target by using a drop of your own blood as the link, but I hope you get the idea. The problem I'm running into is that it's quite hard to come up with actual rituals with these restrictions I've set for myself...
Hmmm, that does sound complex. I'd focus on the creation of the sympathetic link and the gathering of ingrediants. One of the most fun ingrediants from the Dresden files as an example is a pocketful of sunshine, which you can only gather if you're happy. Maybe have places of power where these ingrediants "grow" or "imbued" so you can lean into that for ingrediants?
I think I would like music Magic the only one magic in the world but you can he'll sayings around it like you might as well pay the piper cuz the paper already always gets his due
I quite like spellsinging as a mechanic. The cutest example I ever came across was Alan Dean Fosters' series. I'll add it to the list and see if I have enough to thoughts on it to make a video :)
I think when it comes to word magic my nerve branches they can't be in English it has to be some secret language otherwise the natural conclusion you have to watch every word you say that was in English or speak sign language I know I'm overthinking it but that's where my mind goes
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What is your favorite ritual magic?
In the survival game Outward, you have to preform rituals beforehand crafting and offering items, and building shrines to use your spells. You must offer your health to increase your mana pool, making strong magic users physically frail by nature.
Runic magic video sounds awesome!!!
I’ll add it to the list :)
My favorite bit of ritual magic from a book is the slaying of Aslan and the breaking of the stone table in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. In a movie, it's probably the crafting the Minoton in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger.
The Aslan seen is certainly amazingly written
Yes, looking forward to this one. Liked already.
Hope you enjoy it!
Cosmic vending machines are great, and, as far as I know, are the closest ritual of the "magic" we have in real cultures.
And it also raise very interesting questions. For example, maybe it CAN be used by anyone, but very few have the guts to actually do so, either for ethic, religious or pragmatic reasons.
In the setting I'm working on, I have a type of what you call cosmic vending machine ritual magic. It exists because the use of sorcery ("true" magic) slowly breaks down the laws of physics and causality itself over the centuries, and so as time passes more rituals get "unlocked" as sorcery causes ever more glitches in the world.
It is a very literal type of magic, there is no act of will (the universe can't read your mind) or channeling of power, there are no chants or runes (the universe isn't listening either and it can't read), only ingredients and actions. To affect a specific target, you need a sympathetic link (as in Kingkiller Chronicles) to direct the energy of the ritual. The effect is always external, things like direct depositing of knowledge into your head is not possible (because the caster isn't an innate part of the ritual, and can't be required for the effects). Of course, there could be a ritual that grants a vision to the target, and you could make yourself the target by using a drop of your own blood as the link, but I hope you get the idea.
The problem I'm running into is that it's quite hard to come up with actual rituals with these restrictions I've set for myself...
Hmmm, that does sound complex. I'd focus on the creation of the sympathetic link and the gathering of ingrediants. One of the most fun ingrediants from the Dresden files as an example is a pocketful of sunshine, which you can only gather if you're happy.
Maybe have places of power where these ingrediants "grow" or "imbued" so you can lean into that for ingrediants?
Personally I would prefer crystals and magic dust you could build a guild or some other fashion around it
I think I would like music Magic the only one magic in the world but you can he'll sayings around it like you might as well pay the piper cuz the paper already always gets his due
I quite like spellsinging as a mechanic. The cutest example I ever came across was Alan Dean Fosters' series. I'll add it to the list and see if I have enough to thoughts on it to make a video :)
I think when it comes to word magic my nerve branches they can't be in English it has to be some secret language otherwise the natural conclusion you have to watch every word you say that was in English or speak sign language I know I'm overthinking it but that's where my mind goes
That's a good point, though I'd say if the words are english, intent matters. It's not just speaking the words.