Let's make a zero sum magic setting

>>54474896

Almost sounds like Dark Sun

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>>54474896
There exists a powerful cabal of warlocks who claim ownership of the world. killing off vast swarths of wand to use for extended life and ritual casting.

>>54474896
>>54475053
>The Warlocks have unlimited magic that is separate from the pool of magic left in the world.
>this is a farce however, the true magic comes from ancient magical beasts that laid wast to the world millennia ago

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>>54474896
>>54474990
>>54475053
>>54475147
>The World itself is not dead. magic and the vitality of the earth are two separate entities entirely

>The production of magical items has rapidly increased as magic fades less quickly when imbued into objects
>While many professional Mages and smiths have let fire spirits take refuge in swords many local magic users have created numerous strange artifacts
>House spirits have been know to be bonded with frying pans that make supernaturally delicious food
>Dying witches pour the last of their magics into their huts, creating miniature and mobile hunted houses
>Their have been rumors of the great-grandson of a wizard bonding a forest spirit to and old biplane so she could see the rest of the world before she dies
>Meanwhile a mad Barron has successfully bonded a demon to a tank

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>Alternatives to Magic is tapping into ones soul, but every time magic is exausted they age.
>small weak spells take mere seconds out of ones life, average leval spells and up may take days, weeks, even decades out of ones life.

>Sorcerers, however sap magic out of the eather itself. draining more and more of magic out of the pool.

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>It isn't a question of entropy, the decrease of magical energy doesn't drain "future MP" it instead weakens the potential of mages and makes it much harder for mages to replicate the feats of yesteryear.
>In practical terms, Ancient Magic was basically willworking, letting you do whatever. Magic has become increasing boxed in, ritualistic, limited, and weighed down by rules as time passes.
>All the Hermetic trappings are ritual-tools to adapt to the present conditions, the foci becoming increasing elaborate to strain more and more energy out of a thinner and thinner 'atmosphere'
>Mages from the Ancient World [either summoned through time or who are simply still alive] for some reason still use the Old Magic despite the new conditions.

>>54475503
>Ancient Wizards are called "Granalfs"
>they are the elders of a ainchent wizzard/mage society called "Alfs"

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>>54475594
forgot pic

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>>54475594
>>54475611
>This means that the fade of Magic isn't the sudden collapse of superpowers when "Mana" runs low, its the increasing addition of restrictions on the use of magic, such as equivalent exchange, the requirements of specific foci, inability to violate conservation of mass/energy or to teleport, or raise the dead, or a long list of other limitations that didn't exist for the Ancients.
>In addition, the universe itself changes as Magic fades, going from a world run on the rules of narrative to a world run on standardized physics.
>This makes the world more predictable, but also less malleable to human desires for meaning and satisfying beginnings and endings.
>It also gradually has weakened and will ultimately kill off the Fair Folk and other narrative-based beings.

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>The only way for Magicians to have access to magic without Draining the magical pool is by making pacts with other wordly creatures

>>54475686
>However, due to the Hunt for magical items, such beasts are nearly extinct.
>and such Pacts are deemed heresy by the wider Kult of Warlocks. and will be hunted if word got out.

>>54475204
No.