I created a MAGIC SYSTEM using every BONE in the body
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This is a companion video to my Tree Magic video, bone magic being it's opposing magic system.
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There's MAGIC in my BONES
Iiiiiiii got this feelin yeah you know
Where I am losing all control
Cause there’s magic in my bones!
Ha love it!
"hmmmm, ahhh.. I can smell your bones from here" has a whole new meaning now (thanks Markiplier)
Bone? nice. Reminds me of the gold system that one person made
I remember something about that
Gold and Bone, I think you’re talking about
i love bones
Hey I know what your talking about. And all of this is very similar I agree
bones
I can see the twist in the story where there's a life focused bone magic that exists, blood comes from the bones after all.
That is an inspiring idea! Love it.
Oooh! And for tree magic, roots actually seek out bones and will consume entire skeletons if given the chance
@@roberthanson5840 it would be nice to see a yin and yang type of situation where despite being on opposite end of spectrum they are still in same plane i.e, same spectrum.
Conversely, trees experience a form of death through the winter, shedding their leaves in autumn and only experiencing rebirth in the spring. There could absolutely be a form of tree magic that focuses on this "death", rather than the "life" that reappears in spring.
Gods, that's such a fitting theme.
Just as how in real life the increased understanding of biology has changed how we see health and disease and signs of them.
"Yield my flesh, to claim their bones."
PROJECT MOON MENTIONED!! RAAAHHHH!!!!
the horde is coming.
I hear the PM fans coming already.
Sleeper agents activate!!!!!!!!!
Nothing there, guys. Just a random comment
"Yer got osteoporosis, Harry"
This just made me remember a very rare condition called "stone man syndrome" where instead of repairing wounds with muscles they go through a process called "ossification" where everything that got wounded gets replaced with bone, effectively petrifying that body part.
I remember another person that made a magic system that revolves around gold being plated and grown onto bones. I think I like this concept more, as the concept of a bone mage becoming more demented looking the more powerful they are as they continue to merge more bones into their body is awesome. Boneling battles would be interesting as with the tree magic system you are incentivized to play carefully and wait for defensive magic like oak magic to wear off, while with bonelings, they would jump into close quarters with enhanced physicality and try to rip and tear the power off of the other user.
That's exactly right! It can turn into a pretty thrilling cat-and-mouse kind of fight -- plus those dynamics shift based on the seasons and the types of trees/bones available.
Magic Madness and Sadness.
What an interesting approach to world building! I am a folklore enthusiast and esoteric practitioner. I don't know if you came across the certain stories during your research, but your concept of bone magic here carries a lot of similarities to quite a few ritualistic practices across the world. In many parts of Asia, hardcore esoteric practitioners will always have certain bones in their collection as they belief that certain bones from animals and human carry very specific energy which can be directed towards specific goals. I've come across a tribe in East Timor whose warriors put crocodile tail bone in their mouths to grant them physical prowess. Some would powder teeth of their previously defeated enemies and smear it along their spines to temporarily possess abilities of deceased enemy during fights. Others claim to be able to inflict burn damage, blinding the eyes, cause mass confusion, grant temporary inhuman strength, poison the wind or even call upon lightning with their prized bone with their bone amulets. Some of these magic bones are consumable one-time things, while others are more permanent talismans. All magic bones with special powers have undergone certain rituals to awaken the inherent powers in them. Sounds fantastical, yet such practices are still present in this modern age.
Many parts of Asia huh? Can you make a list of the peoples and locations associated with each bone usage? How many practices are similar? Unique? Are there more instances of bone collection found outside of Asia?
@@BigToody Most certainly. The following is a general overview of one example of bone magic relative to their geographical location:
1. Warriors of the Igorot people in the Philippines have "Agimat", charms made of metal, plant materials and bones carefully selected from different animals believed to grant a range of qualities to enhance or protect the owner during conflicts. Activation of the Agimat powers often include calling out the name of spirit residing in the charm.
2. The Dayak Bidayuh people in Borneo island in Indonesia use a lot of magic bones in their traditional attires and weapons. These animal and human bones bestow different abilities like being able to move unseen, move extremely fast, jump abnormally high, etc.
3. Among the Shugendo practitioners in Japan, some of their rituals involve collecting bones during their pilgrimage in the mountains. These bones are often used as intermediary to channel powers between the mountain gods, animal spirits and the practitioners when they need to foretell the future or heal ailments.
4. The Bomoh are traditional esoteric practitioners of Malaysia. While most conservative Bomoh nowadays veer towards healing and protection with heavy use of Islamic recitations, the more tribal ones still use bones from animals to cast curses that cause sickness and misfortune towards the target. Rituals to awaken powers of the bones including fasting during auspicious days, asking malevolent spirits to take residence inside the bones and recitation of certain spells for hundreds of times to charge the bones.
5. The Saisyiyat people of Northern Taiwan hold great reference to objects known as Alima and Kudum, which refer to ancestral heirlooms. They consist of various things from metals, to wood and a lot of bones. These objects are heavily venerated as they hold significant influence over the fortune of a person, family or even clans. Alima and Kudum need to be "fed" with rice wine, blood, milk or other substances based on what the resident power/spirits like. Their function range from healing and protection, to physical prowess and spiritual transformation.
These are some of what I've personally come across. Most of the practices carries a lot similarities between them, but I personally found the Japanese Shugendo and the East Timorese to be very unique, as in nobody else do it they way they do. I've heard of that traditional magical customs in Africa involve heavy use of bones as well, but I am yet to witness it in person.
@user-bc9cr7gj5z Wow, what a wealth of knowledge you've just shared. So grateful to have access to all this information to further expand my research -- sometime later this year I'm sure it'll all play into Bone Magic Part 2.
I've done some research into cultural /spiritual uses of bone (but not as much as you). I live in Borneo at the moment -- some Dayak tribes here used to headhunt to collect skulls. They believed the practice forced the soul of the dead to protect their homes.
SO MUCH great world-building potential out in the ACTUAL world.
@@hadrianpollardI kind of like stuff that involve the “raw” elements of the human condition, like using blood as fuel for magic, as an example.
Or for rituals, too.
Like anything that’s a sort of “take and give” system.
Genuine question, are there things like people using bones for weapons, like using their bones as weapons, or even making their body ten times faster by making their bones more brittle, as an example.
@@hadrianpollard Exactly. You can really take concepts from all scientific or even math-related fields and include them in the world building process. (Like taking cell theory or even string theory and coming up with something from that. What I did was I made string theory a magic system where Resonators can manipulate the very fabric of reality)
the origin is so poetic
Thank you!
This man needs to become a fantasy phenom
The spine hanging from someone's back triggered an old memory of a Hulk comic where he gets sent to some other world or time and gets a spine creature attached to him at the base of his neck that is sapient and forms some sort of symbiosis. It just activated that in my brain i dunno. This is fuckin cool my guy.
Cheers!
"Now i shall smite you with every bone in my body"
*proceeds to literally use every bone in their body*
Ouch
Now you need mushroom magic for all the kingdoms of life (plants, animals and fungi)
This is perfect a necromancy lore
This is such an interesting concept along with tree magic. You really thought it out quite bit and i love when writers or artists put so much work and passion into their creations.
Lately ive been finding quite a bit of those really original and unique ideas over the internet, the other noteworthy one would be plant-based madieval mecha drawn by Treelancer and i recomend checking out his channel to everyone who found this video interesting.
Plant-based medieval mecha?? That's insane and brilliant. I'll be checking that out.
feels like some sort of medieval cyberpunk
There was a video that was a short made by PIrateSoftware that someone from his chat talked about skelepathy, where essentially skeletons, the animated kind, could find you because your bones could telepathically speak to them from a distance from inside you. This video made me think of it as a type of bone magic lol
That is cool
I also love the idea of putting one aspect in life especially scientifically the broaden it with a magical system
I would love to purchase and read this whenever it comes out!!. Man the way you crafted this whole magic system got me excited and giggling like a child 😆
What happens if a boneling gets access to a fossilized dinosaur bone?
Death
Fossilized dinosaur bones are stone, so probably nothing.
@@__T.O.G.yeah and bones out of the body are literally death so ....
fossils are just stone
Yeah, it's gotta be the fresh stuff made of bone cells. Cool idea though!
RATTLE 'EM BOYS
This Power System is very cool, and has potential for very interesting Combat scenes.
I wonder if you have seen Kimimaro in his fight against Naruto, Rocklee and Gaara( you can find it on youtube ).
Kimimaro also uses Bones to Fight in Cool ways.
I had forgotten about that! Some old school Naruto.
good shit, make more of these man, never have i been actually be interested in a channel like this before.
You got it
Awesome!
I also have a bone themed magic system in one of my fantasy projects about death and what happens when something in the process of dying goes horribly wrong
I have two main characters, who are two halves of one girl, Asphodel and Deianira, they both come from the spirit of a girl called Angela. She died violently by the hands of soldiers on the other side of a war that she was running away from. Asphodel represents the sadness that comes with grief, while Deianira represents the anger. The two never meet, and never will, they don’t want to either. But Deianira wants or more accurately needs revenge, while Asphodel needs time to process what happened to their soul and why it split. They can feel each others pain, Asphodel feels Deianira’s physical pain, and Deianira feels Asphodel’s mental pain.
I’m still working on the magic system but I have a few characters, I just need to work on Asphodel and Deianira’s designs and then I can fully dive into the magic, I want in to have something to do with the nervous system and blood vessels, which will be interesting, quite a bit of gore, so if your squeamish, sorry, this story isn’t for you
The Karambit sounds like a great option for bone magic users, but another good option would be the Bagh Nakh from india. As it is an concealable weapon designed to slice through muscle and skin.
It might not let them get as deep as an Karambit. But it would be great for plucking bones that are close to the skin without a thick layer of muscle or fat to protect them.
On that note, if one had to fight regularly fight against bone magic users that can pull bones from living prey. Than it would be advantageous to have a body like a heavy weight roman gladiator. With thick muscles from training paired with a decent layer of fat from an oat, or barley based diet. With Barley being the more effective of the two.
It might not be enough to completely avoid having your bones yanked. But I imagine that it would be harder to find and take bones from people when they are well fed during times of plenty.
And it would be easier to find and locate bones to pluck during famines, or economic down turns. When people will have less fat or muscle on them. And their bones will be closer to the surface.
Wow, I had never seen a bagh nakh before, that's an awesome weapon that TOTALLY fits with boneling powers/culture. I appreciate the share!
Also, great point about the muscle mass. Though I imagine the best bet is to avoid close range as much as possible.
This seems really neat
This is supremely cool! I am glad I have discovered a fellow worldbuilder. And your magic system guide would be a phenomenal asset to use. Thank you sooo much
Glad to be along the ride with you!
A few people pointed this out to me, and it was a fun watch - nice work, and best of luck with your project!
Thank you very much! And same to you, very excited about more Gold and Bone :)
this is the most unique video I has ever come across, props to this guy. keep it up
Appreciate it!
this is very interesting stuff! great work man
Much appreciated!
This sounds like a fun dnd character to play as
Good god why are the best ideas so underrated
Why is this so interesting? I would never think trees and bones would go together so well.
Cheers!
Pretty interesting 💛
excellent
This would make a great video game or show tbh !
this is incredible 😍 im seeing so many amazing worldbuilding projects on youtube lately it's so inspiring
Thanks so much!
This was fun to hear about. IRL there are links to different cultures and mythologic magic around bones as well so bone magic is a pretty sensible thing to base a magic system around as well. Im always interested in peoples ideas for new kinds of magic or new ways someone uses magic.
I'm excited to do more research into culture
Bone and Tree Magic reminds me so much of Shikotsumyaku and Wood Release.
Hadn't even thought of it until the comments! Man, Naruto has a magic system for everything.
@@hadrianpollard always bet on ninja magic
Bones having the same general function, regardless of what species they originate from has an interesting implication. This could allow some unique or exotic bones to have very interesting magical applications. The two obvious examples I can think of our deer antlers and elephant tusks.
But there are even stranger bones. After seeing this video, I did a quick Google search and found stingrays. Their skeleton is insane.
That is incredible skeleton, wow. Will have to show up somewhere in the series.
thats really cool
I like this a lot!
how do they clean the bones?
do bonelings like eating meat and do tree people like eating vegetables. my show has a race of people that colt the energy of what they eat and they are kinda similar to your ideas and i think it’s really cool. because of their philology they can’t go back to eating meat after consuming plants so in your shows case would bonelings begin to develop more animalistic traits that would allow them to harvest bones (off the top of my head a tiger like tongue to help them scrape the meat off) and conversely would the tree people gain traits that would be advantageous to gaining sunlight such as not liking clothes or something
^^ That is a very cool idea, is it for a book? A game?
As of now, there is an inclination toward hunting in bonelings and toward gathering in the treelings. Bonelings have creature companions called bone-pickers that help clean the bones, but I love this idea of physiological changes that would help them prep bones for magic. And to become more animalistic or plant like the deeper you go in bone/tree magic... that's awesome. Puts a new meaning to the phrase "you are what you eat" huh?
Thanks for sharing!
@@hadrianpollard it’s gonna be an anime, i appreciate your feedback and know that i’ll be watching
This is my first video of yours and I know I'm two weeks late but, I agree that's a dope new set up!
Thanks!
as someone also working on a book, I too have incorporated and bone-like manipulation into the story. I am looking forward to seeing how both of our stories will play out once they're finished.
Cheers, let me know when yours is done!
that sounds like an incredible system
Thank you!
Hadrian, I really want to nkow your work. This video is awesome and your idea it is too. Congrats to you for your book. Soon I want to read it. Cheers from Brasil
Thank you! I look forward to sharing with you, saúde!
just went looking for why gold would be the best for conductivity based magic and got my answer because this video made me go look for it so thank you. also I'm just in from my first 5km in AGES and my legs were heavy and sore. Where I'd usually let that interrupt my progress and it would make me stop, I acknowledged the pain and thought about it and I was able top push on. I never really di this before but for some reason today I did and it worked. THEN I come back and you confirm this in this video, so ill be doing it a lot more going forward so thank you for that too.
What serendipity! Glad you're getting out there, running, and paingazing your way through it!
I-I-I got this feeling, yeah, you know
Where I'm losing all control
'Cause there's magic in my bones!
Very interesting, especially since I’ve had a similar idea involving bones and trees.
Essentially, there were these certain trees that, when the bark was in contact with live bones (usually through biting) would give the person a sort of spell or effect. This would then be shot out through the bones (think of it as electricity surging through a wire) and casted as a spell. However, the last bone the magic flowed through would temporarily dissolve, which would reform a minute or so later. This means a careful cast may only leave a single finger bone dissolved, while an unrefined cast could dissolve a bone protecting an organ, leaving the organ unprotected.
Anyway, very good video!
Intense! I love magic systems with a serious cost. Reminds me of Wheel of Time, but instead of losing your mind you lose your body. I wonder if making the cost more permanent could add more drama and potency to the use of the magic? In other words, you're not casting willy-nilly cause pretty soon you'll be disintegrating into nothing.
i would definitely use this if i ever were an author, youre awesome!
Thank you!
yo this vid was actually good i was not expecting this bony magic thingi you came up with to be so interesting, i especialy love the way you use research in what you come up with so instead of it being some kind of fantasy thing that actualy dosn't make sense you combine it with sience and physics that could actuallly work up to a certain point. With precise manupulation of the dna code stuff like this could actualy be possible. Keep the good work up its super awesome👍
Thank you!
You know now that I think about it, I've seen tons of series that incorporate blood as a power system but very little if none about bones.
That's what I noticed!
"...got this feelin' in my bones"
5:33 I've explored something similar to this myself actually, and it's something I've come to refer to as: The Cannibal Armory. Though this is more used on adversaries as a last resort. And remember, cannibalism isn't simply the act of consuming/eating an individual of the same species, but the utilization of the body/body parts as a whole.
We've cannibalized materials from our house when we were remodeling it, haha. Glad to connect to another bone magic creator!
I love hearing about other people’s magic systems because it gives me ideas for one that I am making for a minecraft based dnd campaign…
I will be using Minecraft to let the players build the lore and society, while being limited by the rules of how the world works.
Good luck with your system!
Interesting ideas 🤝
Thank you! Cheers!
Hey man I’m gonna need those bones back by Thursday.
hearing size matters for power got me thinking about whale bone and bonecharms from dishonored
im here waiting for gameplay only for it to be a book. Boy was this a ride.
Video game adaptation later?
Very Inquisitor
Gotta love Mistborn
many inspiration for character are already here: Mileena from Mortalkombat and Baraka, Morrowinds Bonemold armor to have a kind of battlemage, eldenrings grafting system and many more like norse mythology religion and druids, witches of fantasy and real life
If you're going to include jaw magic, why not also include tooth magic?
It'll be in there!
@@hadrianpollard would be interesting if u could make something especial out of teeth, since they are not exactly considered bones
@@_ThxSoMch Hint: rather than drawing out, teeth can pull things into them (kind of like the function of teeth -- consumption)
Bone specialists like... chiropractors?
I think you got your bone specialists and magic specialists mixed up.
thats a very interesting ideas
Im new here is this man making a game cause the way he made this is like a masterpiece
Thank you! Working on a book, but games would be sweet
"I CAST OSTEOPOROSIS ON THEE!!!"
"NOW YOUR MAGIC IS GREATLY HINDERED!!!"
A forbidden spell that causes all of the bones in your body to impale, extend, and warp around your muscles and grants you almost God-like strength that no other magic but yours can penetrate. An ultimate defense and final stand. (think about Erens incomplete founding titan)
Love this idea
very interestling
This very interesting. would you use shell and tip of bugs and tip of mushrooms
In the words of a VERY insane barbarian from Oblivion's Shivering Isles DLC:
"I don't believe in magic. But I do believe in BONES"
weird coincidence but I had written a character years ago who had two types of magic and they happened to be tree magic and bone magic. His tree magic was fueled by selflessness and his desire to protect others, and his bone magic was fueled by selfishness and rage. Each type of magic had its own weaknesses and strengths and only by discovering himself and finding balance within himself would he finally be able to wield both and realize his potential. It's interesting to see another person's take on similar stuff like this
Great minds think alike!
This is a really unique idea, I found it really interesting!
While you mentioned the tree-magic focuses on harmony, gathering etc, while the bone-magic focuses on pain etc, would the bone magic users have a culture that respects life, because they know the power of death? For example, some more primitive cultures would never kill something and not use the whole animal. Would bone users have a similar philosophy due to its disciplined nature, or would they be more inclined to brutish carnage to acquire power?
Such a thoughtful idea -- it's definitely both. There are clans/individuals who respect life dearly and others who become obsessed with the acquisition of power. The book is definitely about the dualities of peace/conflict, compassion/violence, etc.
I was really concerned this would be Dakhor from the Elantris setting. Glad it ended up being its own thing.
Read a bunch of Sanderson, but not Elantris yet
This is such a cool concept, I can already thing of tons of cool ways to expound upon it🤩. Maybe the longer a bone is left in the more the qualities if the creature it came from will present themselves. For example, grafting bones from a bears paw onto yours would cause your arms to grow larger and your nails would turn into claws in the early stages, but as it progresses your arms will become hairy and you'll loose mobility in your thumb as it starts to become a bear paw. Almost like you're stoking the embers of life essence left in the bones with your own spirit. Over time they become harder to separate and the more skilled the boneling the longer they can linger in the stages where they have the greatest benefit with the least downsides. This could be a great way to emphasize how scary a boneling that uses human bones can be. They can use the bones of people to gleam memories and learn their secrets, or they can take bones from a living person, or maybe give them bones to control them like a thrall. He could firm a cult around gum that tries to graft his bones onto magic users with great potential to resurrect him with more power, like orochimaru trying to take itachi and sasuke's body. Really great system, I gotta go watch the tree magic vid now🏃♂️
Very interesting concept. I dont know if you ever watched anime/manga "Naruto", it has a character Kimimaro that uses bone techniques maybe you could have some more ideas from this character. Good luck to you with your book
I have watched Naruto and Shippuden, but it was a LONG time ago, I had forgotten about Kimimaro
Trust if all of this concept somehow gets into the anime world it would be an instant hit not doubt great thinking
Cheers!
i've seen a similar magic system based on gold and bone, maybe you'll find it interesting
How does exoskeletons Work? For example, someone using a lobster shell or an molusk shell?
Great question!
There are many bones NOT found in the human body that will come into play eventually --
exoskeletons, wings, claws, tails for example
@@hadrianpollard ...and the Baculum
Oh and If one bone can be used to grow animals/insects beyond their normal size, that would include the Bones?
Wow, surprisingly this is the route I went with a Homebrew Necroficer class.
Only difference is that my character would enhance themselves due to neurotic vanity, they (the character) needed to be as beautiful as they saw themselves.
(5e)
very cool
My fursona is a natural born Ostiomancer in his story. He manipulates bone at will. He also couples this with Necromancy. This video is an interesting perspective on such magic.
My fursona embedded his consciousness into the quantum field giving him science based powers. On a scale of 1 to 10 (street level to planet level) how powerful would your necromancy and ostiomancy be?
@Krane5328 Crypt's Necromancy is highly advanced. He can ressurect an entire warzone just by standing in it. If he wills it, they rise. The only issue is that when he raises someone, there's an RNG effect that comes into play. The person or people he ressurects may come back as themselves, or come back as a mindless thrall, whose only purpose is to take orders.
However, there's also a chance that they may even ascend beyond what they were in life. They may become a shade, a wraith, a wendigo, a death knight, or even a lichking. I could list more, but over the years, he's accrued and invented vast amounts of different undead to suit all sorts of needs and purposes. He doesn't get to decide what happens during ressurection, and thus, he assigns his units carefully based on their power and skill set. Also, if the task is difficult enough, he won't even waste units. He'd just handle it himself to preserve his armies. After all, what's a necromancer without his legion?
As far as his Ostiomancy goes, he can shape, malform, reform, bend, twist, stretch, contort, shatter, extend, mend, and compress bone in various matters, shapes, and sizes. Pretty much, if he can imagine a shape, he can form bone into said shape.
With a flick of his wrist, he can turn a person's body into a reverse iron maiden, as their rib cage impales themselves from the inside out.
He can thicken and harden your skeletal system to become more carapace like in nature to withstand higher forms of damage. He can repair broken or even shattered bones from mere fragments at the cost of the repaired bone becoming more fragile (unless he has more bone material to apply) mere breaks or fractures are easily repaired without much consequence.
He can mend his own skeletal system quite easily, reshape it to fit his own needs, and can even focus ostiomancy entirely on himself to allow him to levitate and fly. He can grant others with this ability so long as he maintains focus on these individuals.
HOWEVER, if you were expecting him to be able to fight against beings who manipulate space and time, no, he's not up to that level. Don't get me wrong, he's goku levels of strong, he's naruto levels of fast, but he's not fast enough, nor is he strong enough. He just can't stack up to that yet.
He does have deep magic, though. A magical substance that, when one comes into physical contact, becomes heavy and dense. The longer one is exposed to it, the heavier and more dense they become. This status effect is known as "affliction."
He can project this magic in many forms. He can coat items in it, he can wield it as a weapon, lash out with it as a force wave, project it in various AOE like formations, condense and compact things, bend and reshape objects with it, can use it as a shield to effectively block incoming projectiles, reshape them into shards of deep magic, and send them back, and later on in his story can even use deep magic to open portals within his own plane of exsistance.
The biggest issue with deep magic for him is that there's only ever a limited amount of it. Once it's gone, it's gone. He has a process he goes through called "consumption" that allows him to break items or areas down to make more deep magic, but he needs vast amounts of surface area in order to recoup what was lost. And once something is broken down and consumed into deep magic, it's gone forever.
His deep magic also dissipates when it comes in contact with the sun. This is also relative to his own fatal weakness to the sun. Exposure to the sun will dissipate his deep magic immediately. The sun may also char his bones if he's not careful. He makes avoiding the sun his top priority at all times, and is one of many reasons why he will never stack up against beings who manipulate space and time.
@@Krane5328 sorry for the essay. Short answer, I'd put Crypt at a 7, possibly an 8.
@@CryptTheNecromancer Don't worry I find your essay engaging and intersting.
Krane's consciousness and free will is tied to the quantum realm and it's general randomness. He can utilize his will to manipulate the randomness of quantum mechanics to use it a "magic".
Krane can easily be in multiple places at once, he can become incorporeal, teleport, have a 6th sense, connect objects, and manipulate matter. He can do all sorts of insane stuff by manifesting the weirdness of quantum physics on a large scale. But if it was just this Krane would be a literal science-based god. His mind is connected to the quantum realm but it still has not transcended the computational power of his brain. No matter how much math Krane knows he has to be able to visualize things and understand them intuitively to actually properly use his powers, so no higher dimensional powers and/or complete mastery over a certain radius. Krane also can only manipulate a certain amount of particles at a time, he can't simultaneously control every particle in the viscinity otherwise his quantum soul would breakdown depriving Krane of free will in which case Krane will immediately commit suicide due to an implanted suicidal urge that Krane made that can only be denied through the power of free will.
Krane can only manipulate a hilariously tiny amount of particles at a time but he can do so infinitely and very fast. allowing him to alter his physical state near instantly. He can only manipulate enough mass to create an infinitely sustained explosion of a grenade. His true power comes from knowledge of very advanced technology using his ability to manipulate virtual particles to create any blueprint that Krane can think of from vehicles to nuclear bombs. But he needs to think to make it so the more complex the tech the longer it takes to make, a nuke is hard to make because the precise structure of refined plutonium or uranium has to be made with full comprehension. So generally Krane's preferred method of attack is simple tech, shooting lasers or creating antimatter to go boom. Now this is most certainly overpowered but it comes at the cost of thinking really hard and if you think too hard you will lose free will and quantum powers.
Now his final trump card like Crypt's deep magic is creating a false vacuum collapse, a suicide move that guarantees the uncertain fate of anything within to whatever the true vacuum is which is most likely death literally destroying everything in a bubble expanding at lightspeed.
He basically has no weaknesses in terms of abilities, his weakness is any level of space-time manipulation which can instantly KO him due with either expansion or contraction of the space he's in, basicllaly Krane has to prepare a lot to go to other planets otherwise the change in gravity would disrupt his quantum soul which is linked to free will. And just for comparisons sake let's say that Deep magic can harm Krane's quantum soul directly as well. Now keep in mind Krane's powers are his quantum soul which is tied to his mind, willpower, and free will and anything that affects the quantum soul which are basically just primordial forces like the cosmos or more primordial magic can harm the fragile quantum soul. So Krane is very paranoid about magic and more advanced tech because they literally pose an existential threat to him not a life or death threat Krane's powers and tech are just fine with that but the fact that oops we got 1.25 g's now or I'm gonna use this super-limited magic can literally threaten his free will plenty justifies Krane's OPness.
9.5/10, unlimited use powers, advanced tech, superweapons. Only balanced out by paranoia and fragility of quantum soul.
Could also have a yin/yang/equivalent exchange sort of system, where you give up parts of your bones to have some sort of powerful magic, like what a character in Fate: Zero, who used some of his rib bones to create bullets that target the soul.
Cool idea! Gotta love a good equivalent exchange FMA style
For pain - it could be interesting for people working with bone magic to use herbs and other extracts to numb pain in addition. It could lead to interesting links - for example, salicylic acid, a painkiller is derived from the bark of willow trees.
Thanks for the tip!
So far this magic system seems all about taking what of giving. Weather it be a treeling offering up their bony to a tree or a boneling giving a bone to another for healing. In case of bone magic, the mage should have the option of using their own bones.
All magics work on equivalent exchange, no matter how little, so what happens when a caster gives and nit takes.
Great point
This reminds me a lot of hemalurgy. Might be useful to look into.
YES! I never made that connection before. Hopefully Brandon Sanderson doesn't think I ripped it from him. The impaling with nails is such an incredible, creepy visual.
The title and first minute was enough for me to sub
Cheers!
few minutes in and uh bone magic sounds horrifying.
Very good!
I can see a lot of bone-related puns from this series.
Oh boy, I'm bracing myself
Tree and bone. I see that as symbolic in a way; wood is the bone of a tree. Both of these types of magic are natural, yet are opposite in some way. One is using the tree: giants of nature that're made of wood. The other uses bone: the thing that holds most animal life together. I can't really explain, but they match but are opposites. Plant and flesh, opposites yet both are of nature.
Since you took inspiration from nature and different stemming path Would you use fungi or tip of shells
I can't wait to see Fungi, I want to see a third secret magic that does funky strange things things, if one is inspired by life and the other by death what would the fungi kingdombe inspired by?
Hint -- fungi decomposes the dead matter and turns it into the soil for new life
*spooky music starts.
I love this. I really wanna make a CZcams channel about my story too, but I wonder if these other people have copyrighted their stuff before hand. And if so, how do I do the same?
You have fully inspired me to make my own magic system. I have no money so I can only look at your books preview but I'm making a hard magic system based on quantum physics. My idea is the consciousness and free will are derived from the quantum field and that through knowledge and training one can manifest quantum phenomena on a macro scale. And one question what will you do with vestigial structure bones will their uselessness make them unique in magic or will you just ignore them?
Good luck, my friend! Sounds like an intense science-based system .
Vestigial structures might not have useful functions in the body, but still have magic.
Reminds me of Spirit bones from Douluo Dalu series.
Cool cool, but I’m never gonna forget the OG of bone magic system…
Steel ball run
Batman tellinf the flash: you're a seasonal hero.
I really adore your magic system! how do zou handle death and reamination in your fantasy worlds
There MAY or MAY NOT be a reincarnation bone magic among all the 206 + bones. RAFO :)
interesting. lmk when you publish
Will do!