How magic works in witch woods, In addition to spells, enchantments have more days of attacks or runes
(Similar to darkwoodtale au or anime isekai)
Okey-dokey
Let’s start with the basics and then breakdown from there.
There are 8 schools of magic:
Conjuration - the manifestation of Creatures, Energy or Objects
Divination - the revelation of information
Enchantment - affecting or influencing the mind or behaviors
Evocation - the creation of matter or energy from nothing
Illusion - the changing of the appearance of something or someone
Transmutation - the change of matter, objects or persons
Abjuration - the suppression or protection of and from magic
Necromancy - the manipulation of the dead and their spirits
Each one of these schools has a corresponding High Mage (sans Necromancy and Abjuration)
Now the principals of practice
‘One shall not Transform Another’
‘One shall not Bind any Being Against it Will’
‘One shall not Break the Passage of Time’
‘One shall not Reach into Another’s Mind’
‘One shall not Open the Gates Between Realms’
‘One shall not Bend the Borders of Life and Death’
These aren’t rules, more just guidelines in the common witches opinion.
Onto the fun stuff
Witches have a reservoir of magic inside of them, like a pool and every time they use their magic it empties a bit. If the pool is emptied completely but they continue to use magic they tap into corrupted magic, which is like poison to the body.
And finally, how does magic work.
A typical witch has 2 types of magic, primal magic and then either Passive or Caster magic
Primal Magic
Primal magic the simplest form of magic, every witch has access to this magic. This magic consists of weak healing, fire and light magic. When a witch turns 11 these are the first few things they can do. Sometime witches can make small bits of lighting but it’s very uncommon.
Passive Magic
Passive magic works almost entirely off of emotional intent. It doesn’t require casting circles or rituals, though passive witches still take part in these activities.
Passive witches are often quick to bond to familiars, allowing them to siphon off a small amount of magic from their summoner.
Passive magic has a will of its own, leading to it being volatile if emotions run high. Passive magic that goes too far out of control can create destructive storms and devastation.
Passive magic doesn’t take much to use, but a large amount of practice and control is needed when wielding it.
Caster Magic
Caster magic is wielded through caster circles and rituals. Witches who use caster magic often spend time writing and planning out rituals. These witches have a Grimoire (a book of spells)
Caster witches will often be found to tattoo, carve or burn casting circles and runes onto their person so they can use their magic without using words or drawing their circles much like passive witches. Some witches have been found to draw runes on cards to use as throwable spells.
Caster magic, if not used properly, can backfire to devastating consequences for the caster.
Caster magic is easier to control due to its very nature, but it can take a lot of knowledge and experience to be used effectively.
An example of caster and passive witches working together would be passive witches acting as a ‘battery’ to help large scale casting circles.
Binding and Contract Magic
These a pacts and agreements made with familiars and companions respectively. Companions are typically other witches or fae folk who wish to serve a witch in return for shelter, food or magic. Familiars are usually summoned and bound to their summoner until either one meets their doom. Familiars syphon off excess magic in amounts depending on their type. Like a common sparrow wouldn’t take as much as say a demon or firebird would
A comprehensive list of spells ✨ in no particular order that may or may not appear
Atmokinesis: control and manipulate the weather by mixing water, ice, fire, earth, air, and lightning/electricity.
Ice Mimicry: have a body made up of ice
Genesis: The ability to create lesser beings from your own body.
Glamouring: The ability to change appearance to look like another person by creating an illusion around the user.
Light Absorption: absorb the light around you.
Invisibility: be unseen.
Light Generation: emit blinding light or glow in the dark.
Fire Generation: Generate fire.
Fire Manipulation: Manipulate fire.
Fire Mimicry: Transform into fire or mimic traits of fire.
Shadow Camouflage: be unseen in shadows.
Shadow Mimicry: become a shadow.
Dowsing: locate an object.
Retrocognition: Perception of past events.
Scrying: Use of a tool to peer into the distance or the future.
Telepathy: The transfer of thoughts, words or emotions from one mind to another.
Clairvoyance: Having a visual perception outside the human senses.
Mariquil: calm a temper or an upset person
Lapagna: forceful make someone stop talking
Purify: clean tainted items or places
Healing: mend wounds and injuries, cannot heal mortal injuries that would lead to death.
Summon storm: call upon storms of ice, rain and wind (devastating)
Sprout seedlings: quickly grow plants from seeds
Manipulate sounds: make noises in places you aren’t
Plant speak: talk to plants and trees
Shadow shape: your shadow takes on an interesting new shape
Detect life: detects life
Bend luck: twist fate to your will
Persuasion: convince one to do your will
Elemental Control: control an element, very difficult
Curse of infestation: summon rats, locus and worms to infest and destroy food stores and villages
Manipulation of dreams: twist dreams in to nightmares that can trap the victim
Dream walker: enter and interact with another’s dream
Communication with the dead: talk to dead spirits (results may vary do not attempt)
Beyond the veil: reanimate a corpse
Soul binding: bind a soul to an object or container
Wow that’s a extensive list XD
Anyways here is a list of charms and tools
Fang of Mole - withering crops
Jagged Black Coal - endless misfortune
Tail of Rat - good luck charm
Blood Moonstone - A stone said to make spells last for generations, if broken any spell attached will break
Silver Chain - used to make unwilling creatures subservient to the owner (often used on creatures of wild magic, like unicorns, fairies, firebirds and brownies)
Starlight Fragments - a broken piece of pure starlight that fell from the heavens, a milky white stone in the shape of a heart with specks of gold and silver that gives off a faint glow. Extremely rare. Given as a show of pure and true love. A witch dreams of receiving one of these. Only found in the blue mountains, but even that is rare.
And a guide on gemstones and their meanings
Amethyst - calamity
Garnet - treachery
Ruby - vengeance
Peridot - wreckage
Sapphire - abandonment
Tourmaline - forfeiture
Turquoise - eradication
Aquamarine - detriment
Black diamond - apathy
Emerald - certitude
Black pearl - corruption
Masters eye - sorrow
Quartz - fortitude
Blood moonstone - sovereignty
Morganite - resentment
Agate - volatility
Chalcedony - naïveté
Opal - worriment
Amber - agony
Chrysocolla - guilt
Obsidian - hostility
Selenite - defilement
Carnelian - vitality
And colors for good measure
Red - deceptive, evasive, illusionary
Orange - greedy, hungry, doltish
Yellow - wrathful, vengeful, bitter
Green - prideful, strong, envious
Blue - mercurial, clandestine, mysterious
Violet - passionate, frivolous, whimsical
Pink - brutish, tenacious, solid
Okey-dokey now some questions ^^
How is magic learned?
All witches have access to primal magic. They develop into either Passive or Caster class witches.
Magic is typically taught by parental figures or coven elders. For higher learning, often young witches will travel to seek out larger covens or high mages.
What is the cost of magic?
Magic cost energy, much like exercise. Witches are born with a limited reserve of magic, but these reserves can be increased but the witch practicing healthy lifestyle choices, like eating good food, sleeping well and resting.
Witches will often sleep over entire seasons to build up large reserves, often in winter. A hibernation of sorts.
I probably forgot some things, so if I did I will add to this, not to worry. I didn’t realize how scattered all this information I had was until I had to sort through notebooks, notes and my word document for Witch Woods info just to find everything.
These are the basics of magic for Witch Woods, and by extension Ivory as well.
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I do have a piece of writing advice, actually.
See, the first time I grew parsnips, I fucked it up good. I hadn't seen parsnips sprouting before, right, and in my eagerness I was keeping a close eye on the row. And every time I saw some intruding grass coming up, I twitched it right out, and went back to anticipating the germination of my parsnips.
But it turns out parsnips take a bit longer than anything else I'd ever grown to distinguish themselves visually. It's just the two little split leaves, almost identical to a newly seeded bit of kentucky bluegrass when they first come up, and they take a good bit to establish themselves and spread out flat before the main stem with its first distinctive scallopy leaf gets going.
I didn't get any parsnips, not that year, because I'd weeded them all out as soon as they showed their faces, with my 'ugh no that's grass' twitchy horticulture finger.
The next year, having in retrospect come to suspect what had happened, I left the row alone and didn't weed anything until all the sprouts coming up had all had a bit to set in and show their colors, and I've grown lots of parsnips since. They're kind of a slow crop, not a huge return, but I like them and watching them grow and digging them up, and their papery little seeds in the second year, if you don't harvest one either on purpose or because you misjudged the frost, so it's worth it.
Anyway, whenever I see someone stuck and struggling with their writing who's gotten into that frustration loop of typing a few words, rejecting them, backspacing, and starting again, I find myself thinking, you gotta stop weeding your parsnips, man.
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there are a lot of posts out there that are positive and healthy coping mechanisms for handling the holidays. this is not one of them :)
i think there's like. going to be times in your life you will be stuck in a social situation that you cannot escape from gracefully. i do not know why the internet doesn't believe these times exist. it's not always just that your physical safety is at risk - sometimes it's legit like "i just don't currently have the energy or time to put in the effort of responding to this." sometimes it's a coworker you hate so much. sometimes it's just like, fine, you know? like you know you can handle your aunt when she's cheerily horrible, but if you actually set a boundary around her, it's going to be weeks of fallout with your father.
i don't know why people think the answer is always just "cut them out!" or "don't let them get away with that!" because ... the real world is tricky and complicated. i think kind of a lot of us have an internal "radiation poisoning" meter for certain people. like - i'm talking about the ones who are absolutely giving you gradual ick damage. like, you can handle them, but you'll be exhausted.
and yes. you absolutely should listen to your therapist and the good posts about handling others and set good boundaries and take care of yourself. prioritize peace.
HOWEVER :) ...... since im often in a situation with a Gradual Sense of Ick person i cannot just "cut out" of my life (without losing someone else precious to me) - i have sort of developed the most. maladaptive form of mischief possible. because like, if i'm going to have to listen to this shit again, i like to have a little bit of private fun with it.
now! again, i am physically safe, just mentally drained by this man. you should only do this with people you are not in danger with. which leads me to my suggestions for when your Unfortunate Acquaintance shows up and says oh everyone pay attention to me.
my favorite word is "maybe!" said as brightly and happily as possible. whenever the Horrible Person starts in on a topic you do not want to go further with, particularly if they make a claim that you know to be inaccurate, do not respond to it. you and i have both tried to actually argue with this person, and it hasn't gone well, because this person just wants the drama of an argument. however, "maybe!" gives them literally nothing to go on. it is incredibly disarming. they are used to people having some response. they know they can't prove what they're saying, and maybe! treats them like the child they are. it dismisses them in the politest way possible.
i like to say maybe! and then, in their stunned silence, immediately change the subject. this is because i have adhd and i will have something unrelated to talk about, but if you can't think of topics fast enough, i recommend just pointing to something and saying, "isn't that lovely?" because fuck you let's bring in some positivity.
by the way. that second trick - of pointing to something and stating an opinion about it? - that just works on its own, like, 70% of the time. i picked it up from teaching preschoolers. it's an intentional "redirect". it stops children crying and it also stops grown adults from finishing their explanation on why women belong in kitchens. dual wielding!
keep it silly for yourself. i absolutely do not care if people think i'm fucking stupid (it's more fun if they do) and as a result i will purposefully misunderstand things just to see how long it takes them to realize i've completely removed them from the subject at hand. when they say "women aren't funny" i get to be like. "which women." "all women." "all women in america?" "no in the world." "like the mole people? the people in the world?" "what? no. like, alive." "oh are we not counting the mole people?" "what the fuck are you talking about." "you don't believe in the mole people?"
similarly, i play a personal game called "one up me." my Evil Acquaintance literally knows this game exists (my family & friends caught onto it and now also play it) and it always fucking gets him. i don't know why. you have to be willing to be a little free-spirited on this one, though. the trick is that when they make one of those horrible little bigoted or annoying comments they are always making, you need to go one unit weirder. not more intense, mind you - just more weird. "you don't look good in that dress." "yeah, actually, my other dress was covered in squid ink due to a mishap at the soup store." "you shouldn't wear such revealing clothes." "wait, what? oh shit. sorry, your son tears off strips when no one is looking and eats them. i swear it was longer before we left the building."
the point of "one up me" is to completely upend this person's narrative. we both know this person likes setting up situations where you cannot "win" and then they really like telling other people how badly you handled it. in a usual situation, if you respond "please don't say something that rude", you're a bitch. but if you let it happen, you're letting yourself be debased. they are not usually expecting door number three: unflappably odd. because what are they going to say when they're telling everyone how badly you behaved? "she said my son eats her dresses" ".... okay?"
if you can, form an allyship with someone whomst you can tagteam with. where they can pick up on your weird "soup store" story and run with it.
the following phrase is amazing and can be deployed for any situation: "oh, be nice :) it's the holidays!" i do not know why this works as often as it does. i'll say it for the most random shit. i think this is bc most of the time these people know they're being impolite, they just like to fight.
godbless. when in doubt, remember that you could always start stealing their pens.
the whole point of this is - if you can't escape. maybe see how long you can just be. like. a horrible little menace.
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