I made a Magic System for my manga. The magic works more like incantations and alchemy. The earth is magical in that story and ores, dead animal and even plants have magical properties. One must prepare first into weapons, tools and spells like a recource what the earth does is having the property of memory so it can obtain animal properties or for example a stone that has properties of oil making it highly flamable. Animals for example: making a potion of a hawk will give you personally the instincts and memories of a hawk letting you use the wings like you have used them all your live long. Otherwise getting wings feels kinda unrealistic before training to fly. So magic is pretty powerful but not bullshit like a overpowered lasers or battle who has more mana, its about finesse skill and knowledge no mana at all, making them spellslingers who use minimal recourses to its limit, giving them a focus on skill more than power.
really appreciate the section on uniqueness--working on my own magic system lately, and i was sort of worrying about taking too much inspiration specifically i really like the way dark souls handles magic, despite being a high fantasy setting there is great cost (lorewise, in-game it's actually kind of busted) to pursuing magic in the souls games my world so far already shows themes of cost, specifically in pursuing power, so i think a similarly designed system would work well--and of course, i also intend to bend things around and make it a creation of my own.
Been trying to quantize 5e magic to work with my HB world and for the off-shoot stories for major people or events that won't be played so is set in stone. But having rules or limits is the real important part. The rules or lack thereof can make or break a system if something can just completely undo something, or circumvent it (Without intending to). I agree with the magic rarity part whole-heartedly. The more magic around, the more things make less sense given the accessibility(worldbuilding-wise). Magic should be arcane, not mundane imo and complex to the point that nothing could fully understand its inner workings(in universe).
Tea all ok, the discord seams to be unavailable, wanted to see can I take minimal role in the ongoing RPG since RL is hectic and on top of that dam valves in the bathroom are giving me headaches. The videos do help a lot since they are in the list that i play in the background while do stuff around the house.
