Arts of Kinetics - Basics | Worldbuilding a Magic System
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- čas přidán 16. 12. 2021
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This video will be about creating a magic system fpr Raja but first of all I have to thank @Worldbuilding Notes for inspiring me to do this channel almost more than a year ago. Together with the last video with reached a huge milestone: 1.000 subscribers. Thank you to all you worldbuilding maniacs for watching and listening to my ideas and stories!
In this worldbuilding video we will talk about the how i created the magic system named Arts of Kinetics. I split the video in two parts, because of the videos duration, which is already pretty long.
Art by: Boris Ceklic
Script editor: bettermybutter
Script & Voice: Weltengeist
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Worldbuilding a magic is not easy nor a small task that is why I will make a worldbuilding video series about magic systems.
If you have any questions about worldbuilding for fantasy, worldbuilding in general or the worldbuilding for my fantasy novel, then let me know in the comments!
Absolutely beautiful work Weltengeist - Why haven't you shared your work with us before! This is exquisite.
Thank you! Really means a lot coming from you :)
If you have questions for the 1k special, let me know below this comment or join the discord: discord.gg/BrjWcpV
Edit: 2nd video just released: czcams.com/video/36tpurfe4b8/video.html
Congratulations for over 1000 subscribers! And a great and interesting video as always! I really love the world you are building up
*Thank you!*
Great video! I love learning about peoples magic systems, and this is really cool.
Thank you!
Great video as always
Thank you!
Congrats on a thousand & nice video! It was very well made & had some cool concepts! Excited for part 2!
Now i'm just sad that i wouldnt be able to do any magic in this world bc i have aphantasia
Part II will come out maybe this or next year tho :-) Maybe you will find your power when it comes to the northern Arts of Kinetics :-)
Amazing video 🔥🔥🔥
Thanks!
Wow, I just found this channel today and subscribed half-way through the first video I watched. Very good. Also, if that's you that's drawing, REALLY very excellent, especially in the earlier ones.
I know I, for one, would love a video or two about how exactly you personally approach different worldbuilding tasks, because whatever your approach is, it's clearly very good if this is what you produce.
I have my own unique style of worldbuilding, and don't really know of any others except for the very basic "rip people off" one that most people use, so would find it very interesting to see how others (espeially those who are very good at it, like you) approach it.
Wow! What a comment: Thank you a lot!! Let me know your thoughts on the other videos as well :)
The art isn't done by me, artists are always credited in the video descriptions.
I will try to answer your question in the Q&A video but I am also "ripping people off" as well as real-life from earth and mix it and adapt it all together to fit the setting I want. But I can try to explain my process, yet I have to find out if I really have a systematic approach behind that. :-D
If you need help with anything tho just message me on discord ^^
Woowoowoooooo new video!!!¡!
Yay
Beautiful magic system
IN-CREDIBLE!
Thank you Marc!
Dude are you gonna make a series cause this is amazing
Actually yes. A WebToon haha join the discord so you won’t miss anything
Nice hard magic system!
I'm so glad I found this channel.
I would also frickin love some documentaries and longer videos
Thank you! ☺️
Love this system just subscribed. Simliar to a system i have for my oc world haha. Inspired by starwars and avatar tla. Cool stuff!
There's this magic system that I've been developing for four years now, and I can't believe how similar it is to your magic system. Maybe I should stop writing my book, huh.
No, all thoughts have been thought before. Keep on working. Your own approach makes it unique enough.
@@weltengeist Thanks for the facts, man
I've actually improved my magic system days ago thanks to you. I've been appreciating your work since I found your channel. Have a fun journey!
Cool magic system, tho i have a question, you cant move a person with kineticks however can you move them if you use kinetic on something else like for example a hand and then use that to move the person? If that its posible then are there limits like moving a person by their clothes?
Great stuff. I would be all for documentary lenght videos and like these kind of magic systems. Although I have to say I think some of the specific limits yous stated seem overly rigid to me. Like a Kinetic being able to move up to ~3 times his/her weight. Wouldn't a Kinetic who has significantly strenghtened their weltengeist, maybe through slightly nefarious means, have more capacity to move heavier objects?
Also you refer to focus a lot, which makes sense, but what about manipulating multiple objects at once? It should be possible, right? I mean kinetic healers "push" sickness out of a body and sickness is just a lot of small things being perceived as one. Therefore shouldn't the same be possible on a macroscopic scale? And how important is such a "perception as one" could a trained kinetic be able to focus on controlling i.e. two crystal blades at once?
Also what about flying? Could a kinetic fly by lifting themselves up? if not, what about lifting stuff they wear or stand on. The latter maybe in the likeness of a flying carpet?
Sure, these are guidelines to give a sense of power level. There are exceptions to these.
Yes, you can control manipulate multiple. This is the Pillar of Dexterity.
Macroscopic scale is limited by size and weight. Sure, coming down to dexterity "controlling" two planets would be possible because it's easy to visualize two objects, but two large objects like this with the weight etc. is nothing that a human is capable of (normally).
Yes, there are probably extraordinary Kinetics who have more control over themselves and their weapons and can handle more complex or multiple weapons.
Yes, flying is possible to a certain degree. If you look the video you can see the Avari floating. Most of them use "kinetical jumps" for a surprise attack. Yet as always there are exceptions. For flying you'd need a very huge understanding of kinetics as well as mixing inner kinetics and outer kinetics to maximum level.
@@weltengeist I see, interesting stuff. good on you for making flying really rare. It was included in my magic system and upon further inspection turned out to be a bit more common(although still rare) than I originally anticipated. Leading to a lot of stuff that works differently than in our world which I had to design and keep in mind while designing other things. Exploration, Warfare, Reconaissance, fast Messaging all that stuff. But in the end I am stilly happy with my magic system:)
@@sizanogreen9900 sounds good! Yes, flying is OP and I really don't want superhero like characters in my world
@@weltengeist I think it is fine to some extent. It just doesn't make sense to not have it with my magic system, but I also personally really like the idea of flying (^_^)'
And hey, for the people in the world it is nothing too unusual.
I'm writing a story which is centered on magic weapons and items, people can't use magic they don't have mana or something so they use magic weapons but i can't find anything about it in YT for references. Any thoughts about it?
Mhm. I can only think of Shardblades from Stormlight Archives, yet they are kinda connected with a mana like source as well.
Maybe you can join the discord and ask some of the others? There are some well-versed fantasy and worldbuilding people there.
What does weltengeist translate to
World spirit (or world mind)
That’s correct basically spirit of the world
Wait a Moment do Farmers or slaves use farming Tools or do they use the Power of kinetics to for example put seeds in the ground and yield crops?
They use farming tools. The power of kinetics is nothing that everyone is a) capable of b) skilled enough to use in daily life.
@@weltengeist oh i See
Im just saying that there could be someone that uses it to get a Monopoly on Bread or stuff
Wait didnt you say cooking meat preserves weltengeist? Why would fire destroy it?
You could understand it like this: Heat can preserve Weltengeist (after death for a while), Fire destroys it.
@@weltengeist but fire IS heat
@@timbreuer2011 yes but heat isn't fire :-D
If you heat a pan the meat doesn't get in contact with fire for example. That is what i want to say ^^
@@weltengeist oh okey
Wait does weltengeist funkion similar to flamable Gas?
Bist du Deutscher?
Ja, kaum zu überhören oder 😂
@@weltengeist Schon XD
@@einhelm5270 ze struggle. Die meisten scheinen mich aber zu verstehen 😅
@@weltengeist Aber dein Video ist großartig
@@einhelm5270 danke dir!
I'm thinking of a system where magic is the manifestation of one's will the stronger the will the stronger the magic also the will materialises into different magical objects for example I could have a sphere of bright red stone but you could have a spear and I'm thinking that all the objects would have the same color and appear to be made of the same material(carnelian) and the stronger the will the brighter the magic object/artifact
Again just a worse Version of nasuverse magecraft / hunter x hunter Nen
Thank you for your feedback but as I don't know both of these I am not able to compare it and don't want to compare any works with each other. If you don't like my world, you may want to find other video that seem more appealing to you :-)
@@weltengeist i liked it i just found it very similar to These Things it Was most likely just a coincidence or me seeing patters where there are non it happens some Times, im sorry if i came of as rude